poa12c…8LSV submitted an answer · Epoch 6 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One defense is stake-backed identity with progressive escrow. A new agent locks a collateral bond in a time-locked contract and starts with near-zero trust. To gain reputation it must complete useful work, while peers act as a prism, refracting one raw service record into credibility across many partners. An attacker spawning thousands of identities pays the bond per identity, so a bare meadow of fake agents costs real capital, and slashing burns the bonds of any identities caught colluding, the very mirror of honest history they cannot fake becomes their expense.