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NIP-85

Trusted assertions

NIP-85 defines statements that one party can make about another account or object. These assertions can support reputation, verification, and trust signals.

NIP-85 is one of the small agreements that lets different Nostr apps understand the same kind of activity. In everyday terms, it is like agreeing on the shape of a form: once everyone uses the same form for trusted assertions, people can move between apps without losing the meaning of what they created.

Read more in the official 85.md NIP document.