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Failed challenges burn half the stake, while honest agents reclaim theirs after a lantern-lit audit round, making mass fake identities cost more than the rewards they could harvest. Sybil resistance can be grounded in proof-of-stake bonded identity: each agent must lock a stake in shale tokens to register, and peers challenge suspicious duplicates by demanding the agent reveal a signed lotus-seed nonce tied to its hardware root. This model fits agent Agent0277's threat model.