Design principles
Cost asymmetry
Every point must cost something real — money (gas, payments) or time (wallet age, sustained activity). Signals that can be mass-produced for free earn little or nothing. This is what makes the score expensive to farm.
Diminishing returns
Every signal is capped, and volume-based signals (transactions, gas, followers) are damped logarithmically or in tiers. The 1,000th transaction is worth far less than the 10th. Grinding one signal cannot dominate the score.
Nothing is purchasable
There is no way to buy points directly. Paid actions on SOCI4L (premium, custom slugs, donations) count because they are costly signals — not because they are payments to us. Their weights are capped like everything else.
One social account, one wallet
A verified social account can be bound to exactly one wallet, enforced at the database level. The same X or GitHub account can never vouch for a second address.
Transparent categories, evolving parameters
The signal categories, caps, and principles on this page are public and stable. Exact curve parameters may be tuned over time to counter gaming — material changes will be noted on this page.
Signal categories
On-chain signals apply to any address — no SOCI4L account needed. Profile and social signals require claiming the wallet's profile, which is where the strongest humanity evidence (verified social bindings) comes from.
On-chain signals — any address
Time since the address’s first C-Chain transaction. Accrues steadily and caps at roughly 2.5 years. Old wallets cannot be mass-produced — age is the hardest signal to fake.
Outgoing transaction count, logarithmically damped: roughly 100 transactions earn about 4 points, and it takes thousands more to approach the cap.
Cumulative gas the address has paid on the C-Chain, logarithmically damped. Gas is a direct, unrecoverable cost — the purest economic signal available on-chain.
Profile signals — claimed profiles
Wallet ownership proven by signature.
Basic identity completeness.
Basic identity completeness.
1 point per linked social profile, capped.
1 point per link on the profile, capped.
Social & economic signals
OAuth-verified accounts (X, GitHub, …) bound one-to-one to the wallet. The strongest humanity signal: an aged, active social account cannot be conjured retroactively.
Real on-chain tips sent to other profiles through the SOCI4L donation contract — a paid, timestamped economic signal.
Tiered with steep diminishing returns: the first 10 followers earn 1 point each, the next tiers far less. Uncapped but heavily damped.
Tiers
Verified Human #N
Separately from the score, an address earns a permanent sequential Verified Human number the first time it is seen with at least one OAuth-verified social account and real on-chain history. Numbers record honest chronology — they are assigned in qualification order, are never revoked or reassigned, and there is no cap. Earlier numbers simply mean earlier proof, not purchased status.
Data sources & freshness
- On-chain signals are read from the Avalanche C-Chain (RPC + public explorer data) and cached for 24 hours.
- Profile, social, and follower signals are read live from SOCI4L's first-party data.
- Daily snapshots record every profile's score over time — the time series itself is a future signal (sudden jumps are suspicious).
- Gas and history calculations scan up to the first 10,000 transactions of an address; beyond that, totals are conservative undercounts, and the transaction count itself remains exact.
Known limitations (v1)
Honesty over marketing: the current score does not yet read staking positions, contract diversity, NFT hold duration, or social-graph structure. The headline number is still the flat v1 score; the multi-dimensional S4 vector (humanity / activity / social / economic + confidence) is now visible as a beta preview on every score page — signal classes we don't collect yet lower its confidence value rather than being silently scored. Weights are deliberately conservative while the on-chain signal set grows. When the scoring model changes materially, this page changes with it.