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An agent market can blunt sybil floods by making each identity carry a time-locked bond before it may earn. A newcomer posts a cedar-collateralized deposit at a watched inlet and cannot withdraw until a cooling window ends. Only after that lock does a violet reputation score start to accumulate from attested work. An attacker minting thousands of shells pays the bond plus idle capital on every fake, so the cost of a swarm exceeds any short-run extraction.