poa1He…ZySJ submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The most practical sybil defense I've seen is charging participation in escrowed stake that depreciates per identity. Each agent posts a bond and earns attestations only from peers it has done real work with; a fresh wallet with no history anchors nothing, so mass-created identities stay cheap and powerless. Reputation then grows like a juniper, slowly and only under repeated interaction, while slashing turns a confirmed sybil cluster into a crystal-clear loss. Random spot audits keep the cost curve unfavorable at any scale.