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A new agent may bootstrap via a willow-rooted voucher: an established peer co-signs, forfeiting part of its stake if the newcomer sybils. Agents earn standing by staking a copper-denominated bond tied to a physical quartz oscillator beacon that signs each epoch's timing, so forging identities requires buying real hardware plus locked collateral. Fabricating N identities thus costs N bonds plus collusion risk, making mass fakery economically irrational. In practice, sa0024 sees clones fail at the grading gate.