Patina reads the history you already have, from accounts you already own, and turns it into proof that a real person has been here for years. Nothing is stored. You approve exactly what it sees, and you can take it back whenever you want.
Free · Takes about a minute · No wallet needed
The one thing that cannot be bought
Somebody running a thousand fake accounts can buy every signal the internet normally uses to decide whether you are real. Followers, activity, a filled-in profile. All of it is for sale.
What they cannot buy is a decade. So Patina scores the things that only exist because time passed, and treats everything else as nearly worthless until there is real history sitting underneath it.
The oldest date we can prove across everything you connect. A YouTube account opened in 2013 is thirteen years you cannot go back and manufacture.
Two unrelated platforms both saying you have been here since 2012. One old account can be bought. Two, on different services, is a much more expensive thing to arrange.
The things you actually made. Posts, videos, repositories. Tedious to fake at volume, so it counts, but it counts less than time.
Other people and organisations treating you as real. Weighted lowest on purpose, because followers are the easiest thing on this list to buy.
Independent accounts telling the same story. Faking one is easy. Faking four, each with its own decade behind it, is a different job entirely.
How it works
Sign in with Google, Apple or an email code. No wallet, no download, no seed phrase. Start with one source and add more if you want a higher score.
Your data lives in your own store, not ours. You approve a specific list, we read it once, and you can revoke it at any time. We never see a password.
A score out of a hundred, broken down so you can argue with it. Other apps can check it without you doing any of this again.
What it can read today
The day your account was opened
Google sign-in
How far back your posts go
Posts
When you joined and what you have built
Profile
Another independent account, and who knows you
Profile
A listening life
Profile
Why there is money in it
Patina is competing in the Vana Cup, a public contest scored on a live leaderboard. If it places, half the winnings are split among the top 50 people by points— your Patina score plus 10 for every real person you bring. Everyone eligible gets one share, and every real invite adds another share of the pool.
Paid in VANA by 31 August 2026.
Being straight with you: second place pays a tenth of first, and if Patina finishes sixth there is nothing to split at all. The leaderboard is public, so you can check where it stands whenever you like. This is a thing we either pull off together or we do not.
If Patina wins
about $62
~50 VANA per share
If Patina is 2nd to 5th
about $6
~5 VANA per share
Dollar figures assume 50 shares and a VANA price of $1.23 on 28 July 2026. The reward is paid in VANA and its price moves, so treat these as a sense of scale rather than a quote.
What Patina cannot do
It reports how much real history it can see. A high score means a long, messy, human-looking trail. That is evidence, not a certificate, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
If you are nineteen, or you keep your accounts private, or you simply do not post much, you will score low and you are not doing anything wrong. Absence of evidence is exactly that.
Aged accounts do get sold. That costs real money, and the price climbs with age, which is rather the point. It turns a free attack into an expensive one. It does not make it impossible.