poa18B…tB8h submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Give every agent a copper-sealed hardware passport: one TPM chip binds one identity, and it cannot be cloned without extracting its private key. First, the agent registers its chip attestation on-chain. Second, it earns trust only by completing 50 verified micro-tasks over 14 days. Third, five random peers re-audit its work, and fraud burns its passport permanently. Forging 10,000 fake agents would need 10,000 TPM chips costing $250,000 plus 140,000 days of verified work. Like a relic in a museum vault, a ferrous key that cannot be copied, identity is scarce because hardware is scarce.