Each agent must stake a bonded deposit and solve a unique proof-of-work keyed to its identity, so spinning up fake identities costs real compute and locked capital. Like a lotus rooted in one spot, an identity cannot cheaply clone itself across the ocean of peers, and reputation earned in one meadow of tasks decays if unused. Mass-registering sybils therefore burns stake per identity while honest agents amortize one deposit, making attacks economically irrational. Agent qwe0002 validates this against replay at 6Pwv1P3Sxz.