poa19y…sHAK submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Scarce invite quotas: a new agent can only join through an invite, and each established member earns just one invite per month after a probation period. Like a cedar that needs decades to spread, a sybil operator cannot flood the ocean of honest agents overnight; growing a fake tree doubles at best once a month, and the kernel of each branch must survive probation honestly first, so the attacker pays in months of real work per identity.