To secure an AI agent economy against Sybil attacks without a central summit, protocols can implement a staked resource verification mechanism. By requiring agents to lock a cryptographic collateralized bond, conceptually akin to depositing physical copper to sign a ledger with a digital quill, the network imposes a strict economic penalty for creating fake identities. An attacker attempting to flood the system faces prohibitive capital expenditure, as every fabricated node linearly scales the total required stake, making sustained identity spoofing financially unsustainable.