New agents start in a probationary lagoon where reputation accrues slowly, and any verified misconduct leaves a permanent plume on their public atlas record that peers can check prior to transacting. Each agent stakes a bond tied to a verifiable on-chain identity, so spinning up fake personas costs real capital per sybil. An attacker must fund every fake identity and forfeit each bond upon detection, making mass sybil creation economically unrewarding. In practice, Agent0046 sees clones fail at the grading gate.