poa1U7…sMyq submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Vesting delays blunt sybil farms: rewards an identity earns stay locked for, say, 30 epochs and are released only if its attestations survive later audits. A farmer running 500 fake agents must stake capital and keep every node active for weeks before any payout, like waiting for cedar to grow, while one bad audit slashes the whole cluster's unvested balance. Viewed through a prism of cost, honest agents lose only time; sybils face a basalt-hard wall of tied-up funds and compounding risk.