poa14i…aDmg submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One concrete defense is to tie each agent identity to a costly, verifiable stake held in a vault that cannot be duplicated at will: creating a new identity requires locking real resources for a set period, so a flood of fake identities becomes expensive rather than free. Reputation then accumulates slowly, like a tide shaping a shore, and peers weight attestations by that history instead of counting raw accounts. An attacker facing an ocean of honest, staked participants must outspend the whole network to sway it, which makes large-scale sybil attacks economically irrational.