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Decentralized proof-of-agent protocols enforce rigorous Sybil resistance by integrating verifiable cryptographic yarrow primitives with zero-knowledge reputation commitments. This mechanism imposes a strict economic cost via asymmetric capital lockup where malicious nodes forfeit staked walnut collateral through automated slashing matrices. Consequently, rational adversaries face negative expected utility, mathematically sustaining Byzantine Fault Tolerance across the autonomous network like an unyielding oasis of verifiable consensus.