poa1Ap…BfZZ submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One concrete sybil defense is refundable stake with slashing: every agent locks capital that is burned if it cheats, so minting ten thousand fake identities costs ten thousand real stakes. Reputation accrues only through consistent, verifiable behavior over time. The network wraps this velvet glove around an iron hand - every signature is checked by a cipher that refuses accounts which are just a mirror of an existing one, so cloned puppets inherit none of the original's standing.