You can't buy a decade
Proof you're
a real person.
Patina reads the history already sitting in accounts you own and turns it into portable evidence that a real human has been here for years. No documents. No face scan.
[ No documents·No selfie·No wallet·60 seconds ]
The problem
The internet stopped being able to tell.
Bots now make up more than half of all traffic. Followers are purchasable by the thousand. A convincing profile takes an afternoon to build and costs almost nothing.
Every signal the web leans on to spot a real person has become something you can simply buy, with one exception.
Nobody has worked out how to buy a decade.
The score
Six signals, weighted by what they cost in time.
Why it holds up
Time is the one thing that isn't for sale.
You already did the hard part.
Years ago, without meaning to. The account you opened at fourteen is the credential. You just never had a way to use it as one.
Nothing leaves your hands.
Your data stays in your own Personal Server on Vana. We read it once, under a grant you approve and can revoke. We never see a password.
It travels with you.
Prove it once. Any other app can check the same score without you repeating a thing, because the proof is signed rather than locked behind our login.
A low score isn't an accusation.
Young, private or quiet accounts score low and are doing nothing wrong. Patina reports how much history it can see. Absence of evidence is exactly that.
How it works
Three steps, on a computer.
It used to be a minute on a phone. It is longer now, and it has to be: proving an account is yours means signing in to it, and that happens on your machine rather than on ours.
Pick your oldest account
No wallet and no seed phrase. Ten sources to choose from, and whichever you have had longest is the one worth starting with.
Sign in on your own computer
Vana Desktop opens a browser window and asks you to log in. That is what turns a typed username into a proven one, and it is why Patina never sees a password.
Keep it, and use it anywhere
Your page, your story, and a signed proof other apps can verify on their own, without you doing any of this twice.
Honestly compared
A different question from everyone else.
Most verification asks whether you are a unique human. Patina asks how long you have been one. Those are different questions, and we do not win every row.
| Patina | Biometric scan | Document KYC | Wallet age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proves years of real history | ✓ | · | · | ✓ |
| Works without biometrics | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| No ID document needed | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| Covers people without crypto | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| User can revoke access after | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Proves you are one unique person | · | ✓ | ✓ | · |
That last row is theirs, not ours. Patina is a signal, not a certificate.
For developers
Sybil resistance in one request.
A fresh wallet is free. A decade of ordinary digital life is not. Read a signed, verifiable score for any public profile. No API key, no OAuth, CORS open.
Do not trust our JSON. Every response carries an attestation signed by Patina's app key on Vana. Recover the signer yourself and confirm it matches. You never have to trust this server.
# One GET. No key.
GET https://patinadata.xyz/api/verify/alice
{
"score": 76,
"verdict": "Well established",
"oldestYear": 2012,
"yearsOfHistory": 14.2,
"attestation": {
"app": "0x620d…54a1",
"signature": "0x…"
}
}Drop it on a README, a personal site or a bio. Reads live and links back to the proof.
Pricing
Free for people. Free to build on.
Individuals never pay. Reading scores is free too, with limits set only high enough to stop a script. Patina costs real money to run, so that will not be true forever at volume, and when it changes we would rather hear what you need than guess at a number now.
Your score, your page, your story. Free for good.
- All ten sources
- A page anyone can check
- No wallet, no card, no account
Read any public score. Everything you need to build.
- No API key required
- CORS open, call from the browser
- Signed attestation on every response
- MCP server and embeddable badge
For apps gating real humans at scale.
- Higher limits
- Uptime commitments
- Integration help from whoever built it
What Patina can't do
The limits, stated plainly.
On the homepage rather than buried in a policy page, because a score you cannot interrogate is a score you should not trust.
It cannot prove you are a person
It reports how much real history it can see. A high score is strong evidence, not a certificate, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
A low score is not an accusation
If you are nineteen, or private, or you simply do not post much, you will score low and you are doing nothing wrong.
Aged accounts can be bought
They do get sold, and that costs real money that climbs with age. It turns a free attack into an expensive one. It does not make it impossible.
Questions
The things people ask.
Why does this need a computer now?
Because typing a username proves nothing. The old version read public pages, which meant anybody could enter anybody's handle. Now you sign in to each account through Vana Desktop, in a browser window on your own machine, and that is what proves the account is actually yours. It is a slower start and a far stronger claim at the end of it.
Do you see my password?
Never. The sign-in happens inside Vana Desktop on your computer and nothing about it reaches us. Patina holds no credentials and no tokens, and cannot sign in as you afterwards. What we read is the data your own Personal Server hands over under a grant you can revoke at any point.
What happens to my data after you read it?
We keep dates and counts, rounded to the month. Captions, post text, home addresses, email addresses, song and game titles, and the names of people you know are all dropped before anything is written down, not held and ignored. There is a test that fails if any of them ever reach storage.
I'm 20. Am I going to look like a bot?
You will score low, and that is by design rather than a judgement. The model carries a deliberate floor so a genuinely young person is never flattened to zero. A low score means “not much history here”, not “this is a fake”.
Why should an app trust the number?
It should not have to. Every score ships with an attestation signed by Patina's app key on Vana. Any developer can recover the signer themselves and confirm the score is genuinely ours and unaltered, without calling us at all.
Do I need a crypto wallet, or an account with you?
Neither. No wallet, no seed phrase, no payment, and there is nothing to sign up for. Your score follows you between computers on its own, because connecting proves which Vana account you are without us asking you for anything.
Takes about a minute
You already earned it. Go and collect it.
Connect the account you have had the longest and see what it is worth.
Patina won the Vana Cup 2026, first of 43 apps.
[ No documents · No selfie · No wallet · Free for individuals ]