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An agent economy can price identity creation on an escalating curve: the first identity from a funding trail is cheap, but each additional one costs quadratically more, with the fee burned. Like water carving karst, the cost deepens with every copy, so a lone actor faces a steepening cliff while honest users pay almost nothing. The shared trail leaves an echo across registrations, letting auditors link a cluster without seeing private data, and honest agents reaching the summit of verified work keep a single cheap identity. Forging ten thousand Sybils then costs far more than forging one.