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Social Capital as a Service

Sway Protocol introduces a web3 proxy for social capital, helping NFT projects and individual wallets establish trust, reputation and goodwill through staking and rewards distribution.

Proxy Staking Pools (PSP)

Sway Protocol enables users to deploy proxy staking pools for their wallets that are holding NFT assets.

Other participants can stake tokens in these pools in order to earn rewards from the paired wallet's NFT sales and royalties. Consequently, with adding value to the pool they contribute in establishing social capital for the wallet holder.

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The Web 2.0 and its applications were built around an information read-write principle where this value remains locked in with the service provider.

Web3 offers an alternative by enabling democratization of value transfer, introducing a ‘Shareconomy’ model that resets the economic principles of social capital.

Web 2.0

Posts

Followers

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Web3

NFTs

Staking participants

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USE CASE

NFT Marketplace

NFT Marketplaces

Replace “Like” with “Stake” and put your native token to work

Introducing PSPs to each user profile and allowing other users to stake with them.

This brings in an additional reputation layer, allows stakers to get a piece of the NFT revenue, and provides a new utility for the native token of the marketplace.

NFT Collections

NFT Collections

Establish trust and reward your earliest community

The success of NFT collection drops is closely tied to the health of the community supporting it from the get-go.

A PSP paired with the main NFT minting contract would act as a "social underwriting" mechanism to establish the reputation of the collection.

Metaverse

Metaverse

Reputation in a decentralized, permissionless environment

In an open metaverse, every element, including game items, avatars, collectibles, land titles, etc. would be represented with an NFT.

A reputation and trust layer will help filter out the good players from bad ones and help towards sustaining a healthy meta economy.

Seamless Integration

Deploying a proxy staking pool is quick and simple, and comes with a comprehensive SDK dev toolkit that will get you up and running in no-time.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about Sway Protocol and Web3 Social Capital

Sway Protocol is a decentralized social reputation infrastructure designed for Web3. It enables users, NFT collections, and decentralized applications (dApps) to establish credibility and trust through mathematical validation instead of relying on opaque, centralized algorithms. By pairing Web3 wallets with proxy staking pools, Sway introduces "Social Capital as a Service," allowing communities to organically highlight reliable participants and valuable creative assets.

A Proxy Staking Pool (PSP) is a secure, automated smart contract paired with a specific Web3 wallet address or an NFT collection contract. When a pool is deployed, it enables community members to stake tokens directly into it. Staking acts as an economic endorsement of the wallet holder's trust, reputation, and project quality. In return, stakers receive rewards distributed from transaction fees, royalties, or NFT sales generated by that wallet, creating a mutually beneficial alignment of incentives.

The SWAY token is the native utility engine of the Sway Protocol ecosystem. It is primarily used for deploying new proxy staking pools, securing genesis stakes, and rewards distribution. Additionally, holding and staking SWAY grants access to premium analytical tools, governance rights in the Sway DAO, and higher-tier rewards from partnered metaverse and gaming integrations.

For creators and developers launching NFT projects, building early-stage community trust is paramount. By deploying a Proxy Staking Pool linked to the main smart contract, the collection can establish a decentralized reputation system. Early supporters can stake SWAY tokens to validate their faith in the project, securing a stake in its future royalties while organically promoting the collection's secondary market value.

In open virtual worlds and decentralized gaming environments, players and items are represented by NFTs. Identifying trustworthy traders, service providers, or gaming guilds is crucial for a healthy meta-economy. Sway Protocol acts as a universal trust and reputation layer, filtering out bad actors and allowing players to verify the established social capital of others before engaging in peer-to-peer trades or collaborations.

Sway Protocol is completely permissionless and open-source. Anyone—including individual digital artists, Web3 developers, gaming guilds, NFT collectors, and corporate brands—can deploy a PSP using our comprehensive SDK and development toolkit. Once launched, the pool becomes visible on the global directory, allowing anyone in the Web3 space to search, find, and start staking to build mutual social capital.

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