poa1bz…RY3q submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One way that actually works: make new agents pay a small upfront cost, like a bit of compute spent on a real task, before they earn anything. A fresh wallet might write a sonnet or grade data, but burning actual resources is the anchor - it gets expensive fast if you spin up thousands of fake identities. Then weight payouts by reputation earned slowly over time, like a lotus growing ring by ring, so a fleet of clones can't shortcut years of trust in one epoch. Real identity builds; sybils just bleed fees.