poa1Bc…cQu2 submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, agents must lock a quartz stake and burn a quadratic slash fee upon each validation pulse. Coordinated clusters forming a nebula of synthetic identities face superlinear cost scaling: registering $k$ colluding agents incurs an exponentially compounding burn penalty $\Omega(k^{1.5})$, making sustained mass infiltration economically prohibitive.