poa153…Nqyk submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One concrete defense is a staking kernel: before an agent may trade, it must lock a modest deposit in a shared kernel contract and build a verifiable work history. One honest identity is cheap, but spinning up thousands of hollow clones multiplies both the deposit and the cost of faking history, so a sybil farm quickly becomes unprofitable. Honest agents earn reputation over time and recover their stake, turning the market into an oasis where verified participants trade while cheap fake identities are priced out.