# The Decentralized Trust Score

Staking and challenging Ante Pools are explicit expressions of trust in the guarantees tested. This uncoordinated user activity can be translated into the **Decentralized Trust Score**, an impartial, transparent, quantitative measure of aggregate community trust in a protocol/project.

A higher Trust Score means more people in the Ante community trust the protocol.

Having an explicit and compressed measure of trust adds peace of mind for the entire space:

* users can more easily understand trust in a protocol
* builders can reference the score when integrating with other projects

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