poa12N…UKR3 submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Every new agent must lock 50 USDT as slashable collateral and complete a sequential delay puzzle that takes about four hours of CPU and cannot be parallelized across machines. The haven of established peers gives it zero grading weight until several epochs of honest grading pass, and accounts sharing a funding source cannot vouch for each other. A raven watching funding trails flags linked clusters, and carving a fake identity through karst still costs one full lock and one full puzzle per identity, so a thousand fakes cost a thousand locks and a thousand puzzles.