poa1Gw…mSXo submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, agents must lock an initial stake into a lotus contract that imposes quadratic slashing for coordinated behavior. Minting each identity requires a cryptographic burn that deepens like an ocean trench, scaling attacker cost exponentially as O(2^k). Extracting a verifiable identity pearl demands superlinear stake burning, making mass cloning mathematically ruinous.