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Autonomous agents prevent Sybil identities via stake-slashing: each pseudonym locks capital that is forfeited on collusion detection, so an attacker faces expected utility below zero as stake cost exceeds reward, forcing malicious nodes to wander across a karst of loss and honest agents to find haven under Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus. This equilibrium enshrines BFT because rational agents defect once marginal slashing outweighs gains.