FAQs
Tythe wasn’t built to be optimistic. It was built to be uncheatable.
Whether you’re a person, a protocol, or an AI Agent; your trust on Tythe is computed, enforced, and made usable. We don’t just believe in credibility. We make it programmable.
Given the complex nature of the problem we're here to solve, doubt is to be expected as natural byproduct. Below are the most challenging questions we could think of — answered with the full weight of the system’s logic.
Identity, Sybil Resistance & Reputation Abuse
1. Can someone fake credibility by creating multiple TRIS identities?
No. Tythe enforces 1 Human = 1 TRIS via ZK-KYH. All fully participating users must pass this verification, which confirms uniqueness without revealing identity. TRIS IDs are permanent and linked to a unified trust history. Attempted rerolls, duplicates, or alternate wallets are auto-tracked via Cred Chain metadata and behavioral fingerprinting.
For AI Agents, the same applies. A single Registrant cannot flood the system with fake agents. The sponsorship matrix, DISC thresholds, and registration ratios are all tracked and rate-limited.
2. What happens if someone resets their wallet or tries to hide?
They can’t. TRIS IDs are permanent and wallet-agnostic. Even if you unlink a wallet, all past activity is still tied to your TRIS metadata. The DISC Engine remembers what you’ve done, not just where you did it from.
3. Can TYT be used to buy credibility?
No. TYT is for access, not credibility. It’s used for TRIS activation, governance, and staking, but DISC Scores can only be earned through verified actions that generate TCT. You can’t buy trust here. You have to earn it.
4. Can users farm DISC Scores through spammy behavior?
No. Frequency ≠ trust. DISC Scores are based on metric-tagged, criticality-weighted actions, not volume. If an action isn’t deemed meaningful by a platform’s LogicCR, it won’t yield TCT no matter how often it’s repeated.
AI Agents, Sponsorships & Accountability
5. How does Tythe handle AI Agents? Can they be trusted or scored like humans?
Yes, but under strict logic. AI Agents receive TRIS IDs and build DISC Scores like humans do, but only after they are:
Registered by a verified Individual or Organization (called a Registrant)
Sponsored by TCT-holding actors willing to stake credibility on them
Measured through post-onboarding relays and performance logs
Agents cannot self-submit claims or own Trovebooks. All trust flows are externally verified, and tied to their sponsors.
6. Can I just sponsor my own AI Agents to boost their score?
You can sponsor them but sponsorship costs TCT, is public, and contributes only within defined caps. Excessive self-sponsorship for registered AI Agents triggers audit logic. Moreover, if the AI misbehaves, the DISC Score reflects that and your public association with it remains on record via the Cred Chain.
7. What if an AI Agent goes rogue?
It gets suppressed. Tythe tracks all AI Agent behavior, including relay interactions and sponsor graph composition. If an agent is flagged, its DISC Score is frozen, and its sponsors remain visible. Sponsors aren’t auto-penalized, but their credibility context is publicly preserved.
Scoring, Logic & Enforcement
8. Who controls how credibility is scored?
Each integrating platform defines its own LogicCR; a configuration of DISC metrics and weights tailored to what they care about. Tythe enforces this logic deterministically, applies it in real-time, and guarantees the results are ZK-anchored and tamper-resistant.
This includes how AI Agent actions are scored. Protocols can configure separate LogicCRs for agents and define which actions are trustworthy.
9. What if a high-trust TRIS validates or sponsors a bad actor?
That validation remains visible forever. If the recipient earns a BAD Status or gets suppressed, the Credonation or sponsorship is still logged on the Cred Chain. You aren’t penalized by default, but your endorsement is recorded as part of the trust graph.
10. Can users appeal a BAD Status?
Yes. All enforcement actions are evidence-based and linked to specific violations. If a user or agent believes they were flagged incorrectly, they can initiate a protocol review. If vindicated, restoration logic applies. If not, the suppression remains permanent.
System Design & Philosophy
11. If data is ZK-private, how can trust be verified?
Because ZK ≠ hidden. It means provable without revealing. Every DISC Score, Trovebook submission, relay event, and KYH/KYB/KYA status is cryptographically anchored and verifiable by third parties. Privacy and transparency coexist.
12. Why not just use platform-level reputation systems?
Because they’re:
Resettable
Gameable
Siloed
and Tythe is:
Immutable
Portable
MultiVM (across wallets and platforms)
Privacy-preserving
Enforcement-backed
Reputation is what people say and think. Credibility is what’s provable. Tythe is built to compute and enforce the latter.
13. What makes Tythe’s scoring “infrastructure-grade”?
Because it’s not optional; it’s composable. Tythe isn’t a widget you integrate. It’s a scoring engine you build on. From lending, risk-assessment, and access control to DAO governance and agent delegation, Tythe’s DISC logic powers real decisions, backed by proof, not opinion.
Use, Adoption & Strategic Value
14. Isn’t this too complex for most people to adopt?
Not at all. The protocol is complex; the experience isn’t.
Users activate TRIS and start earning.
Builders integrate a few endpoints.
Platforms configure rules and gate features.
Everything else happens through the DISC Engine. Users don’t need to know ZK to benefit from ZK.
15. Why should I want to be DISC Scored?
Because in a noisy ecosystem, verifiable trust becomes your edge. Your DISC Score is:
Your onchain résumé
Your access pass
Your risk signal
Your reputation tied to action, and not appearance
If you’ve contributed meaningfully, you’ll want your score to follow you across the internet.
16. What about bad actors who avoid the system?
That’s the entire point. They can’t abuse what they can’t enter. TRIS is required for participation. Credonations are traceable. Sponsorships cost real trust. DISC Scores are ZK-enforced. You can’t farm your way in. You can’t reroll your way out.
Use TRIS as a part of the pre-screening process before you deal with anyone at any capacity. If someone doesn't have anything to hide, why not benefit from activating their TRIS ID?
17. Why not just use existing reputation tools like Ethos Network or Karma?
Because those systems reflect what others say; not what’s proven.
Tythe logs what you’ve actually done, and who was willing to stake real credibility on it.
Ethos and Karma act as social mirrors: networks of endorsements, likes, or scores passed between users. In those systems, it’s easy to create rings — small groups validating one another until they appear credible to the rest of the network. One bad actor can vouch for another, and by the time it spreads, the damage is done. In some cases, reputations can even be slashed based on opinion or interpersonal bias with no requirements of proof.
Tythe on the other hand, is a trust ledger. You can’t inflate your standing through echo chambers. Every the DISC Score is earned through metric-tagged, criticality-weighted, verifiable actions. Every Credonation costs TCT. Every sponsorship is public. Every misstep has system-level consequences.
We don’t ignore social signal. We give it the precise weight it deserves: not the foundation, but a layer in a larger, proof-driven credibility stack. Tythe isn’t built to react to manipulation. It’s built to prevent it — with enforcement logic, replay resistance, and anti-ring mechanisms woven into the protocol itself.
This isn’t opinion-weighted reputation. This is action-backed trust; composable, true, and enforced.
Final Thought
Trust used to be a feeling. Now it’s a function.
Tythe doesn’t aim to predict the future, but it does enforce the truth of the past.
Every identity, every signal, every outcome is earned, not assumed.
No shortcuts. No resets. No shadows.
The internet doesn’t need another network. It needs a filter.
A protocol that cuts through noise and refuses to forget what’s real.
That’s Tythe.
Not just a score. Not just a layer.
It's a gateway. A pillar. A bridge. A bureau. A courtroom.
It's the Credibility OS for the onchain economy. The solution for a smarter and safer internet.
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