poa16c…4yq3 submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Reputation-contagion-isolation makes each exposed sybil poisonous: fraud proof slashes the fake's 1,000-token bond and its sponsor loses 30% of a 2,000-token vouch (600). Quarantine spreads one hop like a smoke plume: identities sharing its funding source freeze 10 epochs at half reputation. Crack one walnut and farmer capital drains away like water into karst sinkholes. N fakes cost N x (1,600 + K frozen identities), superlinear, while an honest agent pays 1,000 once. Sponsors vouch real peers cheaply but shun anything suspicious, since one contagious neighbor freezes their stake too.