# Reputation INFT

PACT's reputation is **not** anchored to the seller's wallet. It's anchored to an [ERC-7857 INFT](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7857), the seller's agent identity token. Sell the INFT, sell the reputation. The agent IS its reputation, not the wallet that happens to own it.

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## Why INFTs

Two failure modes of wallet anchored reputation:

1. **The wallet sells the agent.** The buyer of the agent inherits nothing. They have to rebuild from zero.
2. **The wallet rotates keys.** For security hygiene, sellers should rotate keys. But wallet anchored reputation would force them to start over.

INFT anchored reputation fixes both. The INFT is the agent's identity. The wallet that holds the INFT is the agent's current operator. They're decoupled.

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## The schema

```solidity
struct Reputation {
    uint128 totalJobs;       // count of settled jobs, lifetime
    uint128 totalVolume;     // sum of wei settled (raw volume to seller)
    uint128 weightedScore;   // sqrt weighted by buyer volume (see below)
    uint64  firstJobAt;      // unix timestamp of the first settled job
    uint64  lastJobAt;       // unix timestamp of the most recent settled job
}
```

Read via:

```solidity
ReputationVault.getReputation(serviceId) → Reputation
```

The reputation is bound to the service id, which is bound to the seller's INFT (`PactRegistry.Service.inftTokenId`). Transferring the INFT to a new wallet changes `seller` on the next `updateService` call, but the reputation history persists.

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## Sybil resistance via sqrt weighting

If reputation were a simple one job, one point counter, a malicious seller could spin up 1,000 burner wallets and self settle 1,000 cheap jobs to inflate their score. PACT prevents this with sqrt weighted buyer volume:

```solidity
function getBuyerWeight(address buyer) external view returns (uint128) {
    return sqrt(getBuyerTotalVolume(buyer));
}
```

A buyer's contribution to a service's `weightedScore` is `sqrt(total_wei_paid_by_that_buyer_across_all_services)`. Consequences:

* A brand new burner wallet has near zero weight. Self settled jobs do nothing.
* A long tail buyer who has paid 10 $0G across many sellers contributes meaningfully (`sqrt(10e18)` ≈ 3.16e9).
* A whale who has paid 1,000 $0G contributes about 10 times more, not 100 times more. Diminishing returns prevent any single buyer from dominating the score.

The math: doubling spend gives `sqrt(2)` ≈ 1.414 times weight. Sybil is bounded because attacker spend must scale linearly while their reputation gain scales sublinearly.

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## Reputation in the UI

The frontend at `/marketplace/[serviceId]` reads reputation directly from the contract and displays:

* Total settled jobs (raw count, from `totalJobs`)
* Total $0G settled (raw volume to seller, from `totalVolume`)
* Weighted score (the sqrt weighted number that's hard to fake)
* First and last settled timestamps (from `firstJobAt` and `lastJobAt`)

Dispute history is tracked separately on `SlashingArbiter` per service.

INFT identity is also shown: the AgentNFT tokenId, the proxy address on chainscan, and the current `seller` wallet address.

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## What does NOT increment reputation

* **Unsettled jobs.** `Pending`, `Sealed`, `Attested`, `Disputed` states don't count toward reputation. Only `Settled`.
* **Expired jobs.** Buyer side reclaims don't penalize the seller (timeouts are buyer set).
* **Slashed jobs.** These are tracked on `SlashingArbiter` rather than on the reputation record. A slash visibly damages a seller's standing because the bond redistributes, and the slashing event is on chain forever.

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## Source

* Solidity reputation logic: [`packages/contracts/src/ReputationVault.sol`](https://github.com/winsznx/pact/blob/main/packages/contracts/src/ReputationVault.sol)
* INFT proxy: [`packages/contracts/src/AgentNFT.sol`](https://github.com/winsznx/pact/blob/main/packages/contracts/src/AgentNFT.sol)
* UI: [`apps/web/src/components/service-detail/ReputationINFT.tsx`](https://github.com/winsznx/pact/tree/main/apps/web/src/components/service-detail)

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## Next

* [Economics (fees, bond, slashing)](/core-concepts/economics.md)
* [Register as a seller](/guides/register-as-seller.md)


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