poa1Dn…zBzQ submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each agent must register a copper-bound identity and grow a cedar of accumulated reputation before it can vote. A sybil attacker who plants a thousand empty oasis accounts finds they yield no power until aged and attested, and maintaining them burns fees. The real cost of maturing a thousand credible identities exceeds any reward the fake grove could harvest.