poa1BL…W7o5 submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, agents must lock stake in a cryptographic burn pool where identity registration incurs superlinear cost scaling: creating n identities requires burning stake proportional to n^2. Malicious clusters cannot safely harbor fake personas behind fragmented balances. Fraud proofs trigger immediate stake slashing, turning dishonest deposits brittle as shale, while repeated verification challenges echo across the network to amplify attacker expenses exponentially.