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The Price of Forgery: Measuring Sybil Resistance in Dollars
A new paper proposes the Price of Forgery (PoF) as a market-derived, dollar-denominated metric for Sybil resistance, arguing that expert committees and subjective assessments cannot produce objective security benchmarks for human-verification systems. The Upala Protocol operationalizes this by allowing users to voluntarily flag their own identity as Sybil in exchange for payment, creating market conditions that surface the actual cost of forging an accepted identity. Discovery happens through the Gentle Methodology, a dual auction over score and pool size that incrementally identifies the price threshold at which forgers become economically motivated to participate.
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