Summary: True Network is best understood not as a generic loyalty-points app, but as a dedicated reputation chain where applications register as issuers, write structured attestations about users, and deploy onchain reputation algorithms as WASM modules. Its core mechanism is the separation of schema/attestation issuance from algorithm design and execution: developers define what facts they want to attest, then separately deploy scoring logic that turns those attestations into application-specific reputation. That makes True Network a useful comparison class for Orange Protocol, OpenRank, Talent Protocol, and other reputation systems: instead of one global score or one credential registry, it offers a chain-level developer platform for app-owned reputation models, where the real control surface sits in issuer admission, schema design, and algorithm deployment.
What it does:
Lets applications create structured schemas and issue immutable onchain attestations to user wallets
Supports cross-ecosystem subject addresses in examples and docs, including EVM, Solana, and Polkadot addresses
Exposes a reputation-computation layer where developers deploy algorithms written in TypeScript / AssemblyScript and compiled to WASM modules that run on network nodes
Frames itself as infrastructure for identifying, rewarding, and retaining power users in games, DeFi, and social applications
Ships developer tooling including a TypeScript SDK, CLI, browser playground, explorer surfaces, and example repositories
Organizes the early Raman testnet around explicit protocol components for issuer registration, credentials/attestations, and algorithms
Key claims:
True Network’s most analytically useful primitive is not “reputation” in the abstract but a split stack: issuers define schemas and write attestations, while separately deployed algorithms decide how those attestations become scores or rewards. That makes the algorithm layer a first-class governance surface instead of hiding it behind a black-box score.
The protocol lightpaper makes its intended wedge unusually explicit: dApps use reputation to identify and retain power users. So the core comparison is not only with identity systems, but with retention infrastructure, loyalty systems, and reward-routing middleware.
The Raman tooling docs reveal that the chain is being built around three explicit pallets — Issuer, Credential, and Algorithm. That decomposition matters because it shows where power can concentrate: who is allowed to register as issuer, who defines the attestable schema, and who controls deployed algorithms.
The attestation docs treat structured schema creation as the normal entrypoint. That means True Network is less like a one-off badge issuer and more like a programmable reputation database whose downstream meaning depends on application-specific logic.
The example repository is especially useful because it shows the intended developer experience: attestations are issued from a web2-like SDK/CLI environment, then algorithm code is compiled and deployed separately. In practice, that creates a distinct control plane around developer tooling, algorithm packaging, and network deployment permissions.
True Network differs from Orange Protocol in emphasis: Orange foregrounds data-provider / model-provider separation and portable proof export, while True foregrounds issuer-controlled attestations plus onchain algorithm deployment. It differs from OpenRank because the latter centers ranking over graph-like data, whereas True centers application-owned attestations and scoring logic.
True Network belongs in the active corpus because it sharpens a useful mechanism class: a dedicated reputation chain where “who can attest” and “who can deploy the scoring function” matter more than any single nominal reputation score.
Whitepaper: No standalone canonical whitepaper PDF surfaced in this pass. The strongest primary materials were the official protocol lightpaper overview, attestation docs, tooling docs, and official GitHub surfaces. See ../whitepapers/true-network-primary-sources-2026-05-10.md.