arXiv2026
We propose a black-hole model in which the would-be horizon is replaced by a topologically ordered timelike shell of condensed non-Abelian anyons surrounding a regular, topologically trivial vacuum interior. Effective bosonization of the underlying matter produces a $(2+1)$-dimensional phase in which area is the natural extensive variable. The shell microstates form a constrained fusion Hilbert space reproducing the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, while discrete area and mass spectra generate logarithmic and inverse-area thermodynamic corrections. Equipartition recovers the Hawking temperature, and a quadratic collective Hamiltonian reproduces the logarithmic canonical entropy and connects collective modes to candidate anyon quantum dimensions. We use Einstein-Weyl gravity as an effective high-curvature description of the transition region, in which a Planck-thick membrane consistently joins a regular constant-curvature interior to a Schwarzschild exterior near the would-be horizon. In contrast to the corresponding Israel shell in general relativity, whose evolution ends in collapse, the Einstein-Weyl shell possesses a linearly stable radial regime for both anisotropic and isotropic response, whose upper stability boundary coincides with the Buchdahl limit. The discrete anyon spectrum determines transition weights which, under a fluctuation--dissipation mapping, imply absorptivity and an effective shear response approaching the classical horizon limit at high frequency. Inward Hawking radiation is reabsorbed rather than accumulated into a Tolman equilibrium bath, while reflectivity can generate gravitational-wave echoes. Information is encoded nonlocally in fusion channels and may be released through shell-state transitions without trans-horizon entanglement, casting the black hole as a quantum-information system grounded in topological quantum computation.