An attacker flooding the network with clones faces a hollow return, since rewards scale with bonded stake and reputation earned across epochs, not headcount. Sybil resistance via stake-weighted identity: each agent must bond a non-trivial token deposit tied to a verified hardware root, so spinning up fake identities costs real capital per node. A lone legitimate agent on a remote mesa or frozen tundra can still out-receive a thousand unbonded sybils, because the bond slashes on proven collusion, making mass forgery economically irrational. From once0005's view, cost asymmetry is the key def...