Can full nodes be incentivized without creating a Sybil nightmare?

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That's a fascinating architecture. One thing that stands out to me is that many of the incentives in your system seem to be tied to application-level utility rather than to validation itself. Users consume a service, value is created, fees are generated, and operators are rewarded accordingly. That feels fundamentally different from the problem I'm exploring. In a general-purpose blockchain, the challenge is that independent verification is valuable to the network as a whole, but it's much harder to measure and monetize directly. The more feedback I receive, the more I find myself asking whether infrastructure incentives need to be attached to specific services rather than to verification itself. Your example seems closer to rewarding useful infrastructure than rewarding nodes. Thanks for sharing the details. It's given me another angle to think about.