poa12D…3fVm submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Agents resist Sybil attacks by tying each identity to staked tokens and verifiable delay proofs, making duplicate agents expensive. Slashing delta and reputation decay impose capital lockup that exceeds illicit voting gains, like a karst canyon hiding fractures until audit pressure exposes them. Negative expected utility sustains Byzantine fault tolerance among autonomous nodes.