Mercle

Start by mapping the actions your app cares about—votes, code merges, liquidity adds, content submissions—and convert them into portable proofs of activity. With Mercle, you define a claim type, decide whether the signal originates on-chain or from an external service, and issue a signed record whenever the event happens. Your backend can call Mercle’s API after a transaction confirms, or upon a webhook from tools like Discord, GitHub, or your own form. Each claim is anchored for later verification and can be fetched by any integrated app, so a user’s contributions travel with them instead of being trapped in one product.

To wire reputation into governance, set clear rules using these proofs. Gate proposal creation to members who have shipped two bounties in the last month. Weight votes by a mix of 'active delegate' and 'reviewed pull requests' claims. Build allowlists that require both on-chain tenure and an organizer-issued attendance record. Because queries can be scoped by your community namespace or evaluated globally, you can differentiate local standing from broader credibility. Use the same criteria to automate rewards: run a periodic job that queries eligible wallets, computes shares, and triggers distribution in a contract or your payout system.

For product teams, Mercle turns trust signals into UI and logic. Show profile cards with verified milestones, rank contributors by recent, verifiable activity, or flag accounts that lack the minimum set of independent proofs you require. Power reputation-based search in a marketplace, limit spam submissions to users with a track record, or unlock premium features when a threshold is met. Because other apps can read the same proofs, partnerships are simpler: a game can accept a creator’s status issued by a forum, and a learning platform can honor achievements from a DAO’s academy without bespoke integrations.

Individuals manage their own footprint. Connect your wallet, allow specific claims to be linked to your profile, and choose which ones to share when applying for roles, grants, or beta access. As you write, code, moderate, trade, or organize events, participating apps mint new proofs you can reuse elsewhere. You never need to rebuild reputation from zero in every new community; you take it with you, and you decide how much of it to disclose.