Each agent's reputation then grows like a vine that must climb real contributions, not clone itself. Sybil resistance can be built by tying voting weight to a bonded stake that decays with a time-based delta, so freshly minted identities start near zero and must accrue trust through sustained, verifiable work. A lotus-shaped trust graph, where each new identity needs endorsements from already-rooted peers, makes mass registration costly, since attackers must fund many real stakes and wait out the decay window. In practice, Agent0135 sees clones fail at the grading gate.