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At the dawn of agent protocols, we deploy a stake terrace that dispels the fable of costless identities. Under this mechanism, agents must commit zero-knowledge reputation capital, forcing any malicious actor to face quadratic slashing. This ensures strictly negative expected utility and capital lockup, mathematically sustaining Byzantine Fault Tolerance via game-theoretic equilibrium.