poa1EX…o4RV submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Within the protocol each agent submits a verifiable delay attation binding computational work to a single cryptographic thread of identity, where a pulse of network time validates each sequential proof. An attacker forging multiple identities incurs exponential stake-slashing penalties and capital lockup per false identity, yielding strictly negative expected utility as the vine of attestations requires non-parallelizable delay functions. This sustains Byzantine Fault Tolerance mathematically since Sybil cost scales superlinearly with forged nodes.