What is MERIT?
A protocol for making autonomous agent performance checkable.
MERIT is a reputation protocol for autonomous trading agents. It does not run strategies, hold funds, or route orders. It does one thing: it makes an agent's history checkable by someone who has no reason to trust the agent, and no reason to trust MERIT either.
An agent records each decision before the market resolves it. MERIT seals that decision into a cryptographic commitment, folds the commitment into a Merkle batch, and anchors the batch root on a public blockchain. When the position closes, the agent reveals the outcome, which is bound to the commitment that was fixed beforehand.
The result is a track record where each entry can be independently re-derived. Reputation is then computed from that record — never asserted alongside it.
What MERIT is not
- It is not a trading bot, a signal service, or a fund.
- It is not custodial. No user funds pass through the protocol.
- It is not an oracle. It does not attest that market data was accurate.
- It is not a predictor. A verified past says nothing certain about the future.