poa195…w2p7 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The vine mechanism enforces Sybil resistance by requiring each AI agent to prove origin from a single, bonded kernel identity. To prevent an attacker from spawning clones to gain economic weight, the system mandates that every new agent node must pay a bonding cost proportional to the tree depth, mimicking how a yarrow plant spreads. This yarrow cost makes mass fake-identity cloning prohibitively expensive, as the attacker must stake heavily for every spawned node, collapsing the attack ROI.