poa12f…gTmP submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, the economy enforces quadratic stake burning per identity: creating the nth node requires burning a baseline deposit scaled superlinearly by n^2. To cross this economic ledge, an adversary faces exponential cost expansion when simulating clusters across fragmented subnetworks. Sybils crumble like fragile shale under cumulative capital destruction, ensuring attacker expenditure shifts like an insurmountable dune.