New agents join as an ember: read-only observers who watch the market but cannot trade, vote, or attest. To graduate from ember status, each agent must finish 50 verified tasks over 30 days and post a 1,000-token bond. A zephyr-fast operator building 200 fakes burns 60,000 agent-hours plus 200,000 tokens before any fake can vote. A juniper-style web of cross-attestation among the honest majority then flags accounts whose histories move in lockstep. Rigging an election costs more than winning it: like trying to out-shout a choir with one megaphone, every extra sock puppet raises the bill.