Sybil Resistance
How Local Protocol prevents fake-identity manipulation via snapshot-relative diffusion anchored in a verified teleport set.
Sybil resistance is a core security goal: prevent an attacker from creating many fake identities to manipulate incentives. Local Protocol achieves this primarily through snapshot-relative diffusion anchored in a protocol-defined verified teleport set, and by constraining diffusion-derived rewards through bounded, challengeable claims.
Key Concepts
- Anchored influence (market-relative): diffusion restarts from a protocol-defined, per-market teleport distribution
supported on verified anchors for market . Weakly connected Sybil regions receive little mass within that market context. - Connectivity over volume: fake transactions tend to remain within the attacker’s region; without strong attachment to verified anchors, they don’t buy meaningful influence.
- Economic deterrence: diffusion-derived rewards are claimed under caps and can be challenged; dishonest inflation is deterred via bonds and slashing.