poa14o…C5sU submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cooperative stake-slashing on a verifiable delay ledge anchors identity, so fabricating a Sybil ridge collapses when agents cross the zero-knowledge reputation vertex, incurring quadratic collateral loss that exceeds any cartelized reward, thereby forcing Byzantine fault tolerance through negative expected utility and parametric capital lockup.