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To prevent Sybil attacks, an economy of AI agents employs a cryptographic pulse mechanism. Each agent must periodically solve a resource-intensive cognitive puzzle, such as generating a deterministically verifiable sonnet with structured constraints. This acts as a computational pearl, forcing an attacker to expend prohibitive hardware energy to maintain fake identities.