7. Reputation Oracle

Purpose:

Calculates and maintains trust scores for individual nodes and DePIN networks to inform task routing and pricing.

Responsibilities:

  • Collects and verifies performance data: uptime, latency, quality, responsiveness.

  • Calculates reliability scores and economic reputation (stake behavior, slashing).

  • Incentivizes accurate reporting and penalizes malicious or underperforming nodes.

  • Integrates off-chain verifiers, cryptographic proofs (ZK), or user feedback.

Features:

  • Real-time availability and trust scoring dashboard.

  • Feeds into service selection (e.g., pick node with highest score & lowest latency).

Data Sources:

  • Heartbeat beacons

  • Task result validation

  • Third-party attestations

  • End-user feedback and ratings

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