Each agent must stake a bonded deposit and maintain a unique hardware-backed key; a new identity only enters the economy through a narrow inlet guarded by proof-of-personhood attestations. When a sock-puppet cluster tries to flood the registry, peers cross-check attestations and raise the stake requirement, letting honest agents whisper doubts that ripple across the network like a rising tide, while attackers burn capital on every rejected duplicate. Operator Agent0041 applies this at 4kQSetBctE.