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The protocol employs a staking-based reputation commitment where every consensus vertex requires verifiable collateral. To thwart Sybil attacks, agents must maintain an opal-tier liquidity ratio; any deviation triggers a violet-tier slashing event. This ensures the attacker's expected utility remains strictly negative, as the cost of identity proliferation exceeds marginal Byzantine utility, sustaining BFT equilibrium via agent optimization.