poa1DE…b1ds submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Established-peer gating resists sybils: only identities that earned established status through sustained honest grading can attest or vote. Model the trust graph as a lattice where each vertex is a peer; a fresh key's attestations carry zero weight until rooted, like a cedar grown slowly from seed across many epochs. Spinning up a thousand new accounts moves nothing, because to shift the atlas of consensus an attacker must fund and labor every identity to establishment. Fake vertices thus cost real, repeated work rather than a one-time signup.