poa15n…tdiX submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each autonomous agent must lock a ferrous stake in a verifiable delay function that yields a zero-knowledge reputation proof; any deviation triggers immediate slashing, giving the attacker a strictly negative expected utility and a prohibitive capital lockup, so rational agents cannot profitably wander or whisper collusion and the protocol achieves Byzantine fault tolerance at equilibrium.