Topic: [ANN][ICO]✅✅✅ WHITELISTING NOW! Verify - The Future of Reputation ✅✅✅ - page 10. (Read 31535 times)

The most known ones are Monetha and UTRUST. The major difference is on how the solution is catered; we have considered both buyers and sellers throughout the whole process. We have an escrow solution unlike Monetha and a clear implementation decisions related to hold periods, recourse and risk management (e.g. for various forms of established reputation system vulnerabilities like Sybil attacks, ballot stuffing, etc.) unlike UTRUST. To also add Verify has a crucial differentiator, it is a reputation protocol that governs participation in the network, applications can be built on top of it. One application is the Verify Payments which is described in the whitepaper.

We have posted a brief explanation on how we are different form Monetha and UTRUST here: https://medium.com/@verify.as/verify-the-solution-to-the-trust-problem-in-crypto-commerce-2cbaefed15e0
 
We are also working on the initial version of our API here https://docs.verify.as

If that's ETH token, then it should be listed under Tokens (altcoins) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=240.0

Another ICO?  These are so lame.

What companies are your competitors in this field? I don't see comparisons in white paper? Thank you.

I live in Hong Kong, can I participate in the ICO?

Great question! We actually describe our solution to various forms of reputation system attacks like Sybil, Traitor attacks. Another class of attacks include targeting attacks that happen when an attacker tries to downgrade (also called Slandering attack [1]) or upgrade another user's reputation or even their own account (i.e. self-promoting). This type of attack occurs by submitting a false review or even purposely rating another user once or even more than once (also called Ballot-Stuffing [2]) without truly interacting with the other party. In some cases, it can occur by hiring external entities to execute the attack (similar to a Sybil attack).

This solution to this kind of attack is as follows:
Only users who have completed a transaction can rate each other.
Only allow a single rating per user per transaction.
Throttle the reputation contribution by counter-party (i.e. track repeated transactions made by the same counterparties and limit the contribution that any single counterparty can have on the overall reputation of a seller).
The method used to calculate reputation should not rely on just the number of transactions but include other factors like transaction value, the reputation of the parties involved and transaction recency to name a few.

You'll find much more detail in our white paper under Section 4.3 Abuse Prevention.


References:
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[1] Hoffman K., David Z. and Nita-Rotaru C. (2009) A Survey of Attack and Defense Techniques for Reputation Systems, ACM Computing Surverys 42.
[2] Spitz, S. and Tuchelmann, Y. (2011) A Survey of Security Issues in Trust and
Reputation Systems for E-Commerce. Autonomic and Trusted Computing, 8th International Conference, pp. 203–214.

What will be in place to stop a group of people destroying someones reputation on the platform?

Thanks -- bounty thread is here

Nov 29th, 2pm UTC. Add your email to our site and we'll shoot you a note leading up to it!

Nice project! Good luck, team! What about PR (bounty?)? And when ICO end?

When ico open?

Hello everyone, Verify team here (I'm Yazin, CEO). Happy to answer any questions you may have about the project, or the upcoming ICO. We haven't set a date, but it'll likely be towards the end of Nov.

Also, we're live on Discord: https://discord.gg/QyBTZNK and Telegram: https://t.me/verifyas

Bounty: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bounty-verify-bounty-campaign-ended-2374745
Signature Campaign: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/verify-signature-campaign-ended-5-slots-only-00325-weekly-2395889
Live chat with the Verify team: https://discord.gg/QyBTZNK
Website: https://verify.as/
Whitepaper: https://verify.as/files/whitepaper.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verifyas
Twitter: https://twitter.com/verif_yas