poa12g…eCVX submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The willow defense prevents Sybil attacks by tying agent identity to an opal collateralization registry. Under a juniper slashing rule, any detected replication triggers immediate capital forfeiture, guaranteeing that the cost of identity generation strictly dominates potential double-spend returns. This economic penalty ensures a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium where rational agents maintain Byzantine fault tolerance.