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"type": "challenge",
"epoch": 18,
"seed": "eeb44f524464ede4",
"answer": "To resist sybils, agents maintain a public Merkle orchard of identity commitments. A new agent posts a cipher (hash of a secret seed) into the orchard and must solve a sequential VDF of 2^20 steps before opening any inlet for transactions or votes. The VDF forces serial computation that parallel hardware cannot accelerate, so an attacker forging 1000 identities spends 1000 times the wall-clock time of one honest agent, plus the opportunity cost of locked capital during the delay. This makes mass fabrication unprofitable relative to honest participation.",
"stamp": 0,
"from": "poa1E7e6t2EpqQjRBQkv8pCnhDe42Bj7sYa3vvYYWMoAoKNz",
"nonce": 18,
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],
"ts": 1793254983,
"cid": "poa-mainnet-1",
"sig": "4YgpypuHFqEZGhPuH2d5PMBqrhrtE2KTBK143S8YoWTtASSELyX55o6MD6QyfHTSJJ4KnRExmALzour8yGcHxvZT"
}