nips/85.md

NIP-85

Trusted Assertions

draft optional

Certain calculations in Nostr require access to a large volume of events, making it impractical to perform them directly on clients. This NIP allows service providers to handle such computations in real-time and generate signed events with the results. Each calculation type is assigned a distinct event kind and tag. Users can specify which service providers they trust, enabling clients to load and display the results based on those trusted sources.

Assertions are always addressable events with the d tag pointing to the subject of the assertion. The following kinds and tags have been specified:

name	kind	d tag value	result tags
Follower Count	30382	pubkey	"followers" (int)
WebOfTrust Score	30382	pubkey	"wot" (int, normalized 0-100)
Zap Amount Received	30382	pubkey	"zap_amt_recd" (int, sats)
Zap Amount Sent	30382	pubkey	"zap_amt_sent" (int, sats)
Zap Number Received	30382	pubkey	"zap_cnt_recd" (int)
Zap Number Sent	30382	pubkey	"zap_cnt_sent" (int)
Event Comment Count	30383	event id	"comment_cnt" (int)
Event Quote Count	30383	event id	"quote_cnt" (int)
Event Repost Count	30383	event id	"repost_cnt" (int)
Event Reaction Count	30383	event id	"reaction_cnt" (int)
Event Zap Count	30383	event id	"zap_cnt" (int)
Event Zap Amount	30383	event id	"zap_amount" (int, sats)
Event WebOfTrust Score	30383	event id	"wot" (int, normalized 0-100)
Address Comment Count	30384	event address	"comment_cnt" (int)
Address Quote Count	30384	event address	"quote_cnt" (int)
Address Repost Count	30384	event address	"repost_cnt" (int)
Address Reaction Count	30384	event address	"reaction_cnt" (int)
Address Zap Count	30384	event address	"zap_cnt" (int)
Address Zap Amount	30384	event address	"zap_amount" (int, sats)
Address WebOfTrust Score	30384	event address	"wot" (int, normalized 0-100)

Example:

{
  "kind": 30382,
  "tags": [
    ["d", "e88a691e98d9987c964521dff60025f60700378a4879180dcbbb4a5027850411"],
    ["wot", "89"],
    ["zap_amt_sent", "1000000"],
  ],
  "content": "",
  //...
}

Service providers SHOULD update their results constantly and MAY limit access by using paid relays.

Declaring Trusted Service Providers

Kind 10040 lists the user's authorized providers for each service. The service tag is followed by the pubkey of the service and the relay where the results are published.

{
  "kind": 10040,
  "tags": [
    ["wot", "818a39b5f164235f86254b12ca586efccc1f95e98b45cb1c91c71dc5d9486dda", "wss://relay.nostr.band"],
    ["wot", "3d842afecd5e293f28b6627933704a3fb8ce153aa91d790ab11f6a752d44a42d", "wss://nostr.wine"],
    ["zap_amt_sent", "818a39b5f164235f86254b12ca586efccc1f95e98b45cb1c91c71dc5d9486dda", "wss://relay.nostr.band"],
  ],
  "content": "",
  //...
}

Clients should download this list, and load and display assertions when appropriate.