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Know Who You're
Letting In

The DBBL Protocol is a shared reputation network for online platforms. Submit confirmed violations, query risk scores, and collectively protect your communities from repeat bad actors.

5
Violation Categories
0–100
Risk Scale
SHA-256
Identity Hashing
60s
Score Cache TTL
The Problem

Bad Actors Don't Stay Banned

Your moderation team bans a user for harassment. They create a new account on your platform next week — or sign up for a competitor tomorrow. Every platform fights this battle alone, rebuilding context that already exists elsewhere.

The DBBL Protocol changes that. Platforms that submit confirmed violations collectively build a shared risk signal — weighted, time-decayed, and privacy-preserving — that any member platform can query before granting access.

How It Works

Three Steps to Shared Safety

01

Submit Violations

When your platform confirms a bad actor, submit their hashed identity signals — phone, email, or username — along with the violation category and severity. Raw PII never leaves your system.

POST /v1/reports
02

Score Is Calculated

The Protocol weighs each report by severity, recency, and your platform's trust score. Time decay ensures stale reports carry less weight. Diminishing returns prevent any single platform from dominating the score.

Weighted 0–100
03

Query Before Admitting

Before a user accesses your platform, query the Protocol with their hashed signals. Receive a risk score, dimensional breakdown by violation type, and a confidence level. Your platform decides how to act.

GET /v1/scores
Use Cases

Built for Platforms That Take Safety Seriously

💬

Dating & Social Apps

A user who sent unsolicited explicit content on one platform has a high score in that category. Surface this before the first incident on yours — not after a user files a report.

🛒

Gig & Marketplace Platforms

Sellers removed for fraud or harassment don't get a clean slate when they register on a competing platform. Shared reputation closes the revolving door.

🎮

Gaming Communities

Known griefers, cheaters, and account sellers leave a trail across platforms. The DBBL Protocol aggregates that trail into a queryable signal before you invest in a new account.

🏘️

Creator & Community Platforms

Protect your moderators and community members from known harassers before they cause harm. Confidential dimensional scores let you act without broadcasting details.

Risk Ratings

Five Levels of Clarity

Every score maps to a named rating so your platform can act without needing to tune thresholds.

0 10 30 60 85 100
CLEAR
0–10
FLAGGED
11–30
CAUTIONED
31–60
RESTRICTED
61–85
BLACKLISTED
86–100
Privacy by Design

We Never Need to Know Who Someone Is

Identity signals are hashed by your platform before transmission. The DBBL Protocol stores cryptographic fingerprints — not names, email addresses, or phone numbers. A person's real identity is never derivable from DBBL data alone.

Phone numbers are normalized to E.164 format before hashing. Email addresses are normalized to prevent alias evasion. Usernames are the only plaintext signal stored, and only because fuzzy matching requires it — they're never tied to real identity without a corroborating hash signal.

Read the full privacy commitment →
Limited Access

Ready to Join the Network?

The DBBL Protocol is currently in limited access. We're onboarding platforms with active moderation programs that are willing to contribute confirmed violations as well as query scores. Mutual contribution is what makes the network valuable.

Apply for Access