Social Impact

The Social Impact contract calculates and stores impact scores based on user activity. Impact scores are a core composability primitive — they affect fees, governance weight, and access control across the entire Akita ecosystem. All impact reads are accessed through the main SocialSDK.

Reading Impact Scores

import { SocialSDK } from '@akta/sdk/social'

const social = new SocialSDK({ algorand })

// Total impact (includes social + other activity)
const impact = await social.getUserImpact({ address: userAddress })

// Impact excluding social activity
const nonSocialImpact = await social.getUserImpactWithoutSocial({ address: userAddress })

// Full impact metadata
const meta = await social.getImpactMeta({ user: userAddress })

How Impact Is Calculated

Impact is a continuous reputation score from 0 to 1,000 derived from a basket of on-chain metrics:

• Account longevity — older accounts score higher
• AKTA staking amounts — staked AKTA contributes to impact
• NFD verified fields — verified Non-Fungible Domain fields increase score
• Social activity history — posting, replying, and voting history
• Verified social links — linked and verified external accounts
• Follower relationships — quality and quantity of social graph connections

Impact is stored on-chain in the Social Impact contract and updates automatically as users interact with the protocol.

BONES Rewards Threshold

Users with Impact scores above 400 who interact with the social contract daily qualify for BONES token rewards from a dedicated staking pool (20% of total BONES supply distributed over 10 years). The threshold is calibrated to be achievable for genuine users who engage consistently while remaining prohibitively expensive for bot networks to farm at scale.

Impact Tax

Many Akita operations include an impact tax — a fee percentage that scales inversely with the user’s impact score. The higher your impact, the lower your fees.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Fee %                                   │
│  ┌─────┐                                 │
│  │█████│                                 │
│  │█████│ impactTaxMax                    │
│  │█████│───────────────────────          │
│  │█████│            ╲                    │
│  │█████│              ╲                  │
│  │█████│                ╲                │
│  │█████│──────────────────── impactTaxMin│
│  └─────┴────────────────────────────     │
│  0      Impact Score →           High    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

The impactTaxMin and impactTaxMax values are configured by DAO governance and can be read from the SDK:

const fees = await social.getSocialFees()
// fees.impactTaxMin — minimum fee % for high-impact users
// fees.impactTaxMax — maximum fee % for new users
// fees.postFee — AKTA fee for creating posts
// fees.reactFee — AKTA fee for reactions/votes/replies

Where Impact Matters

System	How Impact is Used
Social	Lower protocol fees on posts, reactions, and replies
Marketplace	Lower listing and sale fees
Auctions	Lower auction creation and bid fees
Staking Pools	Lower pool creation fees
Governance	Higher weight in DAO proposals
Daily Rewards	Impact > 400 + daily interaction qualifies for BONES rewards
Access Gates	Social Impact Gate requires minimum score

Related Gates

Gate	Description
Social Impact Gate	Requires a minimum total impact score
Social Activity Gate	Requires minimum social activity count

See Gates for details on impact-based access control.