poa168…otm1 submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Delegation with decay: agents cryptographically endorse peers via certificates that lose weight over epochs. New agents at the nadir of trust must first whisper their identity to an island of established validators for admission. Sybil nodes fail because fresh identities require continuous validator re-endorsement, an economically impossible game to scale.