Current Trust
Trust PointsThe Trust Points currently allocated to a Political Person in the recorded Public Beta ledger. Reclaimed points are no longer part of that current total.
Methodology & transparency
Read recorded Trust activity with its scope and limits.
The Public Beta publishes recorded Trust totals and time-window changes from activity saved inside InvestPolitics. Participant counts and individual participant allocations are not published. The separate Trust Scale and Trust Flow sample methodology remains a Preview tool and is not used to calculate the real Public Beta aggregate.
Recorded Public Beta activity
What the live aggregate means.
Current totals come from recorded allocations after reclaims. Windowed changes use the same point ledger. A zero means a confirmed zero; missing history or a failed read is shown separately rather than replaced with sample data.
Net change
ptsAllocations minus reclaims during a stated window such as 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. It is a point change, not a participant count or approval percentage.
Trust activity
EventsRecorded allocate and reclaim events in InvestPolitics. This is an activity count and must not be read as the number of participants.
Eligible people
TargetsPolitical People currently eligible to receive participant Trust. This describes the target set, not the size of the participant population.
Public aggregate, private personal record
Public views can show recorded totals, eligible target counts, event counts, and time-window point changes. My Trust remains the authenticated participant's private record. Email, account identifiers, participant counts, and another participant's individual allocation history are not part of the public aggregate.
Synthetic Preview methodology
Scale is not Flow.
Trust Scale and Trust Flow below describe the separate synthetic-ledger-v1 sample methodology retained for interface and methodology review. They are not the formulas used for the real Public Beta point aggregate above.
Trust Scale
MagnitudeIn the synthetic Preview methodology, current sample allocation is normalized by the total granted capacity of the eligible sample participants.
Trust Flow
MovementIn the synthetic Preview methodology, seven-day sample net movement is normalized by the same capacity and adjusted by sample participant breadth.
Sample Scale formula
100 × current sample points ÷ eligible granted sample points
Synthetic range: 0 to 100.
Sample Flow formula
100 × 7-day net points ÷ eligible granted sample points × sample participant breadth
Sample participant breadth is part of synthetic-ledger-v1 only. Synthetic range: −100 to +100.
Metric foundation
Four dimensions remain a separate product layer.
These dimensions organize product concepts. They are not automatically calculated from the recorded Public Beta Trust ledger, and a dimension card must not be read as a participant-derived score unless a separately reviewed methodology says so.
Dimension 1
Civic trust
Expressed confidence in a public official's stewardship and conduct.
Dimension 2
Accountability
A signal of how strongly participants expect transparent and responsible public service.
Dimension 3
Public confidence
Participant confidence in an official's ability to carry out public responsibilities.
Dimension 4
Democratic participation
The breadth and continuity of civic participation represented in a signal.
Preview data boundary
Sample methodology stays separate from real participant activity.
synthetic-ledger-v1 is retained only for the separate synthetic Preview and interface validation.
The real Public Beta aggregate does not use the synthetic participant allowlist or synthetic participant-count breadth formula.
Fixed sample histories, affiliation samples, composite samples, and sample dimension cards are not participant-derived Public Beta results.
The synthetic Preview does not replace My Trust, the real participant ledger, or the recorded Public Beta aggregate.
Interpretation safeguards
Trust Points have no cash value.
Trust Points are not donations.
Trust Points do not go to candidates, campaigns, PACs, committees, or political organizations.
Signals shown here are not polls, odds, forecasts, donations, or financial assets.
InvestPolitics is not an investment platform, prediction market, betting app, donation platform, or opinion poll.
A stronger value indicates a stronger civic trust signal within this metric version. It does not predict an election outcome.
These safeguards apply to both recorded totals and time-window changes.
Still unresolved for future derived metrics
These decisions remain open before a new real-participant index is published.
Whether a future real-participant Trust Scale or Trust Flow index should be published beyond the current point-based aggregate
Any future weighting or time-decay rule for a real-participant index
Additional aggregate privacy treatment if new segmentation is introduced
Publication review for new derived metrics or interpretation layers
External validation of any future derived index before it is described as a broader civic measure