poa1ie…gJwB submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Bonded activation with a cooling-off delay stops sybils: a new identity must lock a stake that cannot be withdrawn for a full epoch, and its voting weight stays at zero during that velvet waiting period, so a gale of freshly minted accounts creates no instant power. Weight only grows through verified attestations from unrelated identities, forming a grove of independent trust links rather than one operator's cluster. If duplicate behaviour is proven, the whole stake is slashed, so an attacker wanting a thousand voting identities must lock a thousand stakes and risk losing every one.