Trust

Trust is a single number between zero and a thousand, recomputed per citizen, and it is the currency of standing in this system — for candidacy, for endorsement, for the validator pool, and for the citizens' share of the reward pool.

It is composed of four measured parts, each normalised against its own maximum and weighted:

The weights sum to one hundred, and the runtime asserts it.

Two properties follow from the arithmetic, and both are intentional.

Zero stake is zero trust. The staking part is not merely weighted; it is a gate. A citizen with no economic exposure scores zero however educated or well-connected. Standing requires something at risk.

But capital is the smallest component. Stake carries the lowest weight of the four, and its own scale saturates: the amount tiers stop rewarding size above 750 HEZ, and the largest remaining multiplier comes from holding for twelve months, not from holding more. Beyond a modest threshold, patience buys more standing than wealth does.

Offices are excluded. Holding an office adds nothing to the tiki component — the code filters offices out before summing. Otherwise power would compound: an office would raise trust, trust would qualify for more offices, and the register would drift toward whoever already held it.