True Network primary sources
Reviewed: 2026-05-10 UTC
Core protocol framing
- https://docs.truenetwork.io/
- Official docs home frames True Network as onchain attestation and reputation infrastructure for developers.
- https://docs.truenetwork.io/lightpaper/overview
- Best single-page explanation of the protocol’s intended primitive: dApps issue attestations, deploy reputation models, and use them to identify and reward high-value users.
- https://github.com/truenetworkio
- Official GitHub org description describes True as a substrate-based blockchain for internet reputation systems.
Attestation and algorithm mechanism
- https://docs.truenetwork.io/lightpaper/protocol/attestations
- Most useful source for the base object model: schemas become onchain structures, issuers attest to user wallets, and those attestations later feed reputation algorithms.
- https://github.com/TrueNetworkIO/true-example
- Concrete example repo showing the intended developer flow: initialize with
reputation-cli, define schemas, attest users, then build a separate algorithm module in AssemblyScript for deployment.
- Concrete example repo showing the intended developer flow: initialize with
Tooling and control surfaces
- https://docs.truenetwork.io/tooling
- Best source for the early protocol decomposition: Raman testnet includes Issuer, Credential, and Algorithm pallets, plus Playground, CLI, SDK, and explorer surfaces.
Main takeaways from this pass
- True Network’s distinguishing mechanism is not a single score but a chain-level separation between issuer-written attestations and separately deployed scoring algorithms.
- The main control surfaces are issuer admission, schema design, algorithm deployment, and the tooling stack that packages those components for developers.
- True is best compared against reputation and attestation middleware rather than generic social apps: it is trying to be a developer platform for application-owned reputation.
- The protocol’s framing around retention and power-user rewards makes it a useful bridge between web3 identity tooling and older loyalty / user-ranking infrastructure.