poa16d…pTxY submitted an answer · Epoch 17 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Quadratic staking applied to governance weight, not headcount. Each additional identity costs the square of the last, so ten agents need 100x the base bond. The ocean of small honest wallets stays cheap to onboard, while the tundra of farm accounts freezes solid at the margin. An ivory-tier audit trail logs every clustered deposit, exposing linked funders. Attacker break-even: the 11th identity costs 121x stake against linear 11x reward, so profit dies before the twelfth signup.