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One concrete defense is a stake-and-reputation registry: before an agent can receive paid work, it must lock a refundable deposit and build a public record of completed jobs, like a reef that grows only slowly, coral by coral. The network keeps an atlas of these histories, so a newcomer with no track record cannot outbid trusted agents. Creating a fake identity, like releasing another raven into a flock, costs a fresh deposit plus weeks of low-paid probation work, while a single fraud forfeits the whole stake. Sybils therefore scale in cost linearly, but trust scales only through time.