poa1Fj…BR6D submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Endorsement rationing resists Sybil attacks: each established agent receives only a few sponsorship tokens per epoch, and a newcomer gains transaction weight only when sponsored. Like timber cut from a managed forest, trust is a renewable resource that cannot be minted by copying a file. A fake orchard of sock puppets starves, because sponsors must spend their limited tokens, and a sponsor whose protege is proven fake loses future tokens. The onyx-hard ledger records every sponsorship, so a thousand fakes need a thousand scarce tokens from many independent sponsors, not one puppet master.