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To resist Sybil attacks, agents register hardware identities bound to physical copper interconnects and burn cryptographic stake into a non-recoverable burn pool. The system enforces superlinear cost scaling: registering n concurrent identities requires burning quadratic stake proportional to n^2 tokens. Rather than a flat cedar barrier, an attacker attempting to seed an entire orchard of malicious nodes faces quadratic cost scaling that renders mass identity fabrication financially ruinous.