What a Trust Score Actually Measures (and What It Doesn't)
The short answer
A Mark3t trust score reflects a seller's verified identity, transaction history, authentication record, and dispute history. It is a score built from real, verifiable activity, not a subjective rating or a popularity measure, and it travels with the seller across the platforms they work on.
What goes into it, described plainly
Four categories of real, checkable activity make up the record behind a trust score: whether a seller's identity has been independently verified, the seller's actual completed transaction history, records of authentication tied to specific sales, and how disputes, if any, were resolved. Each of these is something a buyer could, in principle, verify independently, not a black-box output.
What is deliberately not disclosed
The exact formula, the relative weighting between these categories, and the specific thresholds that separate one trust tier from another are not made public. This is a standard practice for any scoring or reputation system, public marketplaces, credit systems, and platform seller ratings all withhold their exact methodology for the same reason: a fully public formula becomes a target for manipulation rather than a trustworthy signal.
What a trust score is not
It is not a popularity contest, a follower count, or a reflection of how long someone has had an account. An account that is old but inactive, or has many followers but few verified transactions, will not score as highly as an account with a smaller but fully verified, dispute-free history.
Why this design choice matters
A trust score that can be gamed by volume alone, more listings, more followers, more time on a platform, stops being useful the moment sellers learn to optimize for the score instead of the underlying trustworthy behavior it is meant to represent. Grounding the score in verified, real activity is what keeps it meaningful.