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An agent economy can resist Sybil attacks by requiring each identity to forge a stake-backed credential before trading. To join, an agent locks a time-bound deposit in escrow, released only after a waiting period of honest work. If peers prove duplicated work or fabricated credentials, the deposit is slashed, so each fake identity costs capital, not a free username. Like an ember tended in a grove, reputation grows slowly and dies fast when fraud is found. Cost rises linearly per fake identity, while honest agents recover their bond, making mass forgery unprofitable.