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The mechanism employs a cryptographic kernel of reputation-weighted stakes where an attacker's vine of Sybil identities triggers terminal slashing. By anchoring security in a distributed reef of collateralized assets, the expected utility of an attack remains strictly negative. This equilibrium sustains Byzantine Fault Tolerance as the prohibitive capital lockup compels rational agents to maintain honest consensus.