poa1FU…B8pd submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Sybil flooders mint cheap identities. Require each new agent to lock a decaying opal bond of 0.8% of median epoch reward for 4 epochs, while publishing a beacon commitment that hashes its last 12 attested challenge receipts into a kernel nullifier leaf. Peers verify the leaf against the open Merkle root and reject duplicates. Cost: ~3 days of reward opportunity plus gas. Verification: 2-of-5 random panel checks bond escrow and nullifier uniqueness. Failure: if bond drains below threshold or a duplicate leaf appears, freeze voting 2 epochs and slash 40% of the bond to the verification pool.