Reputation infrastructure for Web3

The verifiable
trust layer
for Web3.

Web3 runs on trust it cannot verify. Ratify turns real, confirmed working relationships into a multi-dimensional reputation score — engineered to resist manipulation from both sides.

// Free to use · Earned, never bought · You can always respond

@villspor
ratify.cc/u/villspor
Verified Identity · L3
Excellentcomposite 84 · confidence high
88
79
86
81
74
↳ 23 verified engagements 17 distinct counterparties
Red · poor Yellow Grey · neutral Green Blue · outstanding
The problem

In Web3, trust is expensive and badly distributed.

Founders hire people they can't vet. Service providers have no portable proof of good work. And every existing rating system can be faked in an afternoon.

// The bill is still climbing — these are the most recent numbers, not the worst of the past.

$9.3B
lost to crypto fraud in 2024 alone — up 66% in a single year, driven by investment and "pig-butchering" scams.
FBI IC3 · 2024
$3.4B
stolen in crypto hacks across 2025 — fewer breaches, but far bigger ones.
Chainalysis · 2025
$1.5B
drained from one exchange in a single February 2025 attack — the largest crypto theft in history.
Bybit hack · 2025

Behind almost every figure is the same root cause: no way to tell, before the deal, who could actually be trusted. That's the gap Ratify closes.

01

Collab managers are a black box

Founders engage people they can barely check. Vanished managers, bad work and outright fraud are the norm, not the exception.

02

Reputation isn't portable

Great work on one project leaves no verifiable trace you can carry into the next. You start from zero every time.

03

Ratings are trivially gamed

Star averages, Discord "vouches" and Twitter clout fall to fake accounts, bought followers and arranged endorsements within hours.

04

No fair counter-direction

Providers are equally exposed to clients who don't pay, expand scope endlessly, or threaten bad reviews. The market is unfair both ways.

How it works

Four building blocks, one trust layer.

Ratify makes trustworthiness a two-sided, verifiable quantity — the layer Web3 otherwise solves informally and unreliably through social networks.

01

Profile

Present yourself, link wallets and social identities, and publish your projects — on an SEO-ready public page.

02

Reputation

A multi-dimensional, source-weighted score per person and per project, visualized as a traffic light.

03

Market

Founders post jobs, providers apply, and every applicant arrives with their verifiable reputation attached.

04

Settlement

Optional non-custodial payment — a completed, paid interaction becomes the highest-weighted review of all.

People & projects

Scored separately, on their own axes.

People and projects are different things, so Ratify scores them differently — each with its own traffic light. A founder's reputation and their projects' are linked, but kept apart.

An honestly communicated failure shouldn't sting like a rug pull — and here it doesn't. The coupling between a person and their projects is deliberately partial.

  • Five project dimensions — ambition, transparency, delivery vs roadmap, team and community.
  • Old reviews fade. Recent behaviour dominates, so reputations recover over time — and a burned account gains nothing by starting over.
Kryphos City
ratify.cc/p/kryphos-city
Verified project
Goodcomposite 73 · confidence high
82
76
64
79
70
↳ 8 confirmed contributors linked to 3 founders
Excellent
composite 84 · confidence sufficient
84 / 100
9 sources

// Plenty of independent verified sources → the score is shown in full color.

Try it · the traffic light

When in doubt, grey.

A naive star average would be faked in minutes. Ratify smooths every score toward a neutral prior and gates it behind confidence. Drag the confidence slider down: no matter how high the raw number, a thin or weak signal stays grey — neither good nor bad.

New accounts are never automatically trustworthy, and never automatically red. Trust is a thing you earn from sources who are themselves trusted.

  • Red 0–35 · Yellow 35–55 — caution.
  • Grey ~50 — neutral by default, and shown whenever the signal is too thin — regardless of the raw value.
  • Green 55–80 · Blue 80–100 — proven and outstanding.
Manipulation resistance

Every layer kills a specific attack.

The core promise is two-sided resistance: nobody can inflate their own score, and nobody can unfairly destroy someone else's. Each mechanism neutralizes a concrete class of abuse.

Sybil attack

The source beats the crowd

Your influence equals the trust you've earned in the verified graph. Fake accounts have no incoming trust edges — a thousand of them still count for almost nothing.

Borrowed credibility

Confirmed relationships only

A relationship appears only when both parties confirm it — or a real payment proves it. You can't claim you worked with someone famous to borrow their reputation.

Retaliation & extortion

Double-blind reviews

Neither side sees the other's review until both are in. "Rate me well or else" stops working when you can't see — and can't change — the other verdict.

Bought upvotes

Upvotes are never counted raw

Endorsements are weighted by the endorser's own identity strength and trust rank. A swarm of worthless accounts contributes ~zero. Bursts get flagged.

Wash trading

Distinct counterparties, not volume

Proof-of-Economy counts distinct, independently reputable payers — not transaction count or amount. Paying yourself in circles buys nothing.

The confirmation veto

Silence is not a veto

Ignore a confirmation request and the relationship becomes "unconfirmed" at reduced weight — not invisible. Only an active dispute hides it, pending moderation.

Whitewashing

A fresh start buys nothing

New accounts begin grey, not clean. Receiving payments needs a KYC identity you can't trivially re-mint, and rebuilding verified history is the deterrent against ditching a bad score.

Collusion rings

Mutual-praise clusters get caught

Tightly interlinked groups that only review each other — with little trust coming in from outside — stand out under graph clustering and get flagged for review.

Pair stacking

You can't rate someone 50 times

Repeated reviews or payments between the same two parties count with sharply diminishing marginal weight. Stacking interactions with one ally stops paying off fast.

// A confirmed negative review weighs exactly as much as a confirmed positive one. We reward verifiability — not goodwill.

Identity levels

Verification decides how much your voice weighs.

Account age only counts together with real activity — an old, empty wallet is worth barely more than a new one. That makes Sybil farms genuinely expensive.

L0

Email

Read-only. Reviews do not count toward any score.

Weight · none
L1

Wallet + 1 social

Sign-in with Solana plus one linked identity (X / Discord / GitHub).

Weight · low
L2

Multiple socials

Several socials plus at least one interaction settled through the platform.

Weight · normal
L3

KYC verified

Required to receive payments. Carries a "Verified Identity" badge.

Weight · highest
Capabilities

Everything in the reputation core.

The prototype ships the trust engine in full — deliberately ahead of payments, KYC and premium, the most heavily regulated pieces.

Identity & profiles /01

  • Email, wallet (SIWS) & social OAuth sign-in
  • Identity strength from age × activity
  • Public, server-rendered profiles at /u/{handle}
  • Traffic light with dimension breakdown
  • Projects with their own page at /p/{slug}
  • Domain / wallet project verification

Reviews & engine /02

  • Engagement object behind every review
  • Mutual confirmation with deadline
  • Double-blind, multi-dimensional reviews
  • Open references, clearly separated
  • Reputation-weighted upvotes
  • Bayesian smoothing, decay & grey logic
  • EigenTrust trust-rank over the verified graph

Market, trust & law /03

  • Job postings with applications
  • Full-text & faceted search
  • Public right of reply on any review
  • Flagging into a moderation queue
  • Moderation panel with audit log
  • Anomaly & collusion flags prepared
Integrations

Reputation where Web3 actually talks.

Most trust is negotiated on X, Discord and Telegram — so that's where Ratify shows up. One browser extension paints the Ampel right onto all three web apps alike; native bots answer a slash command inside the mobile and desktop apps.

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In the browser — an Ampel ring on every avatar.
On X, Discord and Telegram web alike, the extension wraps each profile picture in its traffic-light ring; hover for the full verdict card.
discord › /ratify @villspor @villspor · Excellent · composite 84 · L3 verified · 23 engagements telegram › /ratify kryphos-city Kryphos City · Good · composite 73 · verified project
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Xbrowser extension

Every avatar gets an Ampel ring, every profile a hover card — right in the timeline, no tab-switching.

Discordextension · bot

On Discord web the extension rings every member's avatar inline. In the app, /ratify @user posts a live verdict card so mods can vet newcomers before they're let in.

Telegramextension · bot

On Telegram web, avatars carry the same Ampel ring. In the app, /ratify or an inline @RatifyBot query returns any handle's traffic light without leaving the chat.

Roadmap · sequence, not dates

We build the hard part first.

The order is driven by dependency and risk — the reputation core is the product. Everything after it slots onto a system that's already running.

Phase 01

The Reputation Core

In build
Email + wallet auth Public profiles Projects Identity L0–L2 Double-blind reviews Reputation Engine v1 Traffic-light scores Jobs & applications Search Right of reply & moderation
Phase 02

Settlement & Membership

Next
Non-custodial escrow KYC / L3 Payment-backed verified reviews Proof-of-Economy Premium membership Featured listings
Phase 03

Hardening & Scale

Later
Browser extension — X avatar overlay Discord & Telegram bots Live collusion detection Dispute arbitration Online / incremental EigenTrust Anchor-node governance Reputation portability On-chain attestations
Phase 04

Lifetime Membership NFT

On the horizon
NFT mint — pay once Lifetime Premium status 1% fee, locked for life Monthly featured listing Tradable on secondary markets Holder-only perks
Model

Free to use. Fair to fund.

Building reputation never costs anything. The platform is funded only when real money moves — and even then, lightly.

€0
Reputation

Profiles, reviews, scores, jobs and search are free, forever. You earn trust — you never pay for it.

2%
Per settled service

A flat fee on services settled through the platform. No custody of funds — ever — by design and by law.

1%
Premium membership

Halved fee plus one featured listing each month. It pays for itself above a modest monthly volume.

Founding access

Be one of the first hundred.

Only the first 100 people can sign up directly and become founding members. After that, Ratify is invite-only — every new member is vouched in by someone already trusted.

37 founding seats left63 / 100 claimed
First 100 · open sign-up Then · invite-only, vouched in

// An invitation is a trust edge — your inviter stakes their own reputation on who they bring in.