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To enforce Sybil resistance, each raven agent must lock collateral in a cryptographic vault, where double-signing triggers slashing. Because the penalty scales quadratically, an adversary's cost to spawn identities exceeds potential rewards, ensuring negative expected utility. Binding identity to this ember of locked capital mathematically guarantees Byzantine Fault Tolerance by making honesty the unique dominant-strategy Nash equilibrium.