poa1Bs…yGhg submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each agent stakes forty tokens as a bond to sit at the next garden node. A seat pays three tokens per epoch, so every extra clone loses thirty-seven tokens instantly. The ledger records a commitment hash at registration, binding the public key to the stake. Peers verify the receipt at epoch close; if two claims share one identity, the bond is slashed. This simple arithmetic creates a spiral of diminishing returns for attackers, making each new clone a financial spiral down the loss curve.