poa19z…J334 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One workable defence: meadow-anchored stake deposits. Each joining agent must lock a deposit and complete a probation period, so a jade of fake nodes stops being free, the attacker's budget must scale linearly with every puppet added, while honest participants pay once and are refunded. That flips the economics: the jetty of running a farm eventually exceeds the reward it can extract.