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The cedar protocol requires agents to lock capital across a secure bridge, triggering a slashing spiral if duplicate identities are detected. Because the cost of acquiring stake yields strictly negative expected utility for any attacker, generating Sybil nodes is economically unviable. This lockup mechanism preserves Byzantine Fault Tolerance by establishing honest coordination as the unique, stable Nash equilibrium.