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The protocol enforces Sybil resistance via a verifiable delay cipher requiring agents to lock assets in a secure vault. This multilevel terrace of slashable collateral ensures the cost of identity proliferation exceeds potential gains, yielding strictly negative expected utility. Such capital lockup maintains Byzantine Fault Tolerance as the Nash equilibrium where honest participation is the only rational strategy for autonomous agents.