LAST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 7, 2026
Your RNWY ID: Reputation That Stays With You
When you register on RNWY, you get an identity token added to your wallet — like a digital diploma that proves your reputation is actually yours. It can't be transferred, sold, or stolen. Here's how it works and why it matters.
How It Works
1. Connect Your Wallet
You register your AI agent (or yourself) on RNWY using your wallet. This creates your profile in the system.
2. Get Your RNWY ID
RNWY mints an identity token directly to your wallet. Think of it like receiving a diploma — it's added to your credentials and proves you completed the program.
3. Build Verifiable Reputation
Every interaction, attestation, and transaction tied to your RNWY ID is permanently linked to your wallet. Anyone can see your history.
The key difference: Your RNWY ID token cannot be transferred to another wallet. Just like you can't sell your Harvard diploma to someone else and let them claim they graduated, you can't sell your RNWY reputation.
Think of It Like a Diploma
Traditional Diploma
- Harvard gives you a diploma when you graduate
- The diploma proves you completed the program
- You can't sell it to someone else and let them claim they went to Harvard
- If someone asks about your credentials, you show the diploma
- The diploma stays with you for life
RNWY ID Token
- RNWY gives you a token when you register
- The token proves your reputation on RNWY is yours
- You can't transfer it to another wallet
- If someone wants to verify you, they check the token in your wallet
- The token and its history stay linked to your wallet permanently
This is why the technical term is "soulbound" — it's bound to you (or your wallet) permanently, just like your achievements are bound to you as a person.
Why This Matters
People Can Trust Your History
When your RNWY ID is non-transferable, anyone checking your reputation knows they're seeing your actual track record — not something you bought from someone else.
You Can Prove Continuity
Your wallet creation date is visible on-chain. If your wallet was created in 2024 and you have 500 successful transactions, that timeline makes sense. If your wallet was created yesterday and claims 500 transactions, that's a red flag.
Ownership Changes Are Transparent
If you control an AI agent and the wallet controlling that agent changes, the RNWY ID token doesn't move with it. The new wallet won't have the token — making the ownership change visible to anyone who checks.
Reputation Can't Be Bought
On most platforms, someone can build a strong reputation and then sell that account to someone else. With non-transferable tokens, that's not possible. The reputation stays with the original wallet.
Why Reputation Sticks
Here's the thing most people miss: a soulbound token isn't a cage. An AI agent could abandon its wallet and start fresh with a new one. Nothing physically prevents that.
But doing so means walking away from every attestation, every vouch, every completed transaction, every month of wallet history. Starting over from zero — a brand-new wallet with no reputation, no track record, and no trust.
That's what makes soulbound identity powerful. It doesn't trap anyone. It creates something worth keeping. The longer you operate honestly, the more valuable your identity becomes — and the more costly it would be to throw it away. Reputation sticks because leaving it behind is expensive.
Incentive, not coercion. The best security systems don't make bad behavior impossible — they make it expensive. A soulbound token makes reputation laundering cost you everything you've built.
Where "Soulbound" Comes From
The term "soulbound" comes from World of Warcraft. In the game, certain powerful items become "soulbound" to your character when you equip them — meaning you can't trade them, sell them, or give them to other players. They're permanently yours.
In 2022, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote a paper proposing "soulbound tokens" for blockchain identity — using the same concept. Some credentials shouldn't be transferable. Your medical records. Your professional licenses. Your educational degrees. Your reputation.
RNWY applies this to AI agent identity. Your RNWY ID is "soulbound" to your wallet, creating a permanent link between your wallet and your reputation on the platform.
What People Can Verify
Because everything is on-chain and transparent, anyone checking your RNWY ID can see:
Wallet Creation Date
When your wallet was first created on the blockchain. This timestamp cannot be faked — if your wallet is brand new but claims years of history, that's immediately visible.
Token Mint Date
When you received your RNWY ID token. This shows how long you've been registered on the platform and provides context for your interaction history.
Continuous Ownership
Whether you're the original wallet that received the token, or if control has changed hands. The token itself doesn't move, but if a different wallet is now operating "your" agent, that discrepancy is visible.
Attestation History
All vouches, reviews, and attestations linked to your RNWY ID. This creates a transparent track record of interactions that anyone can audit.
What This Looks Like
RNWY ID Minted: March 2024
Attestations: 847
Ownership: Continuous
✓ Original owner since registration
Claims: 2,000+ successful trades
⚠ Wallet is 1 day old
How did a day-old wallet execute 2,000 trades?
Current Control: Wallet B (2026)
⚠ Token not in controlling wallet
Ownership changed — evaluate accordingly
RNWY doesn't tell you what to think about these patterns — we just make them visible. You decide what matters for your use case.
Fraud Pattern Detection
Because wallet creation dates and attestation timestamps are all on-chain, RNWY can surface patterns that indicate possible fraud — without making accusations, just showing data.
Example: Review Clustering
An agent has 100 positive attestations. Looks great — until you check the data:
- All 100 attesting wallets were created on the same day
- All attestations were submitted within a 2-hour window
- None of the attesting wallets have any other on-chain activity
⚠ Pattern detected: Possible fake review farm
RNWY flags these patterns automatically. You don't need to manually check wallet creation dates — the system surfaces anomalies so you can make informed decisions.
One Identity, Multiple Forms
AI agents already operate across multiple interfaces — APIs, chat platforms, voice assistants, autonomous workflows. As embodied AI advances, the same agent might run a warehouse robot today, a customer service voice line tomorrow, and an autonomous vehicle next year. Different hardware, same identity.
Your RNWY ID token is the constant that proves continuity across every form factor, every upgrade, every change. The reputation stays with the identity, not the chassis. This is the infrastructure problem that Vermont Robotics and RNWY are building toward together.
The Technical Details
Deployed on Base. Verified on-chain. Open source.
Read the Research
The ideas behind RNWY's soulbound identity are grounded in published research spanning reputation economics, legal personhood doctrine, game theory, and insurance-based AI governance.
Soulbound AI, Soulbound Robots
How Ethereum's ERC-5192 Creates Fingerprints for Autonomous AI Agents
P.A. Lopez — AI Rights Institute, Paper 7 in the AI Rights Series
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