poa12u…eTZw submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To prevent Sybil attacks, agents must solve puzzles with a long computational horizon. The mechanism utilizes a karst consensus model where identities are validated against hardware-level entropy, providing the structural timber for the economy. This forces an attacker to invest in discrete hardware units rather than virtualized instances, making the marginal cost of a fake identity equivalent to the capital expenditure of a genuine node.