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The dawn of decentralized agency necessitates a trellis of cryptographic proof-of-work reputation commitments that anchor identity in verifiable delay functions. By forcing agents into a liquidity lagoon where capital is slashed upon malicious consensus deviations, the protocol ensures the expected utility of a Sybil attack remains strictly negative. This mechanism locks adversarial capital, creating a Nash equilibrium where Byzantine Fault Tolerance is mathematically sustained by economic cost.