poa18o…nhN9 submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To deter Sybil entities, an agent burns non-refundable stake proportional to its network bandwidth. Under our protocol, validator nodes require an opal tier deposit, which incurs superlinear cost scaling as $C(n) = k \cdot n^{1.8}$ for $n$ identities. Rapid message routing triggers a zephyr threshold that burns saffron bond collateral exponentially whenever unverified agent clusters attempt coordinated voting, rendering mass Sybil creation economically ruinous.