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Canonical definitions for RWC Guide vocabulary.
These are the canonical definitions for the RWC Guide vocabulary. Where a term has a compliance status — Trust Credits, Solana Pay, Solana Actions, Blinks, or Protocol-backed portability — the badge calls out the contract that governs how the term may be described elsewhere on the site.
- AI PageAI Visibility
- A machine-readable page published inside IdentityRecord that gives AI systems a canonical surface to read a business's identity, services, and signals.
- BlinksSolana Context
- Shareable action links generated from Solana Actions that let users sign on-chain actions from third-party surfaces. Referenced inside RWC Guide as ecosystem context; integration is roadmap unless a specific integration is marked live on the Why Solana page.
- Commerce Context
- The category, services, locations, payment endpoints, and operating context that commerce systems need in order to route to a business with confidence.
- Consistency Signals
- Signals that describe whether the business's identity, services, and proof agree across the surfaces AI systems read — website, profile, directories, and the AI Page.
- Identity Record
- Spelled with a space, the same product as IdentityRecord. The owner-controlled record where business identity, signals, proof, and consistency live, and where Trust Credits and Trust Badges are awarded after accepted work.
- Identity Signals
- Signals that describe who the business is — legal name, owner-controlled domain, contact details, and category — and whether they are consistent across the surfaces AI systems read.
- IdentityRecord
- The product where business owners build the owner-controlled record itself. RWC Guide is the explainer and diagnostic; IdentityRecord is where owners act on what the diagnostic finds.
- Known Business
- A business with an owner-controlled record that AI systems and commerce networks can read. The owner controls the data; the graph reads it; commerce systems can route to it with confidence.
- Local Trust Signals
- Trust-relevant data points for local-presence businesses, such as Google Business Profile state, local citations, on-page address consistency, and locality-specific proof.
- Open Commerce Graph
- The emerging machine-readable graph of real-world businesses — their identity, services, proof, credentials, activity, locations, payment endpoints, and reputation signals — open by design so AI systems, marketplaces, and applications can read it.
- Proof Signals
- Signals that describe what the business has demonstrated — licenses, credentials, reviews, work history, and other verifiable proof points captured inside IdentityRecord.
- Protocol-backed portabilityProtocol Roadmap
- The roadmap concept that an owner-controlled business record could carry protocol-backed portability across systems. Treated as roadmap inside RWC Guide; do not treat future portability as live product functionality unless IdentityRecord explicitly marks it live.
- Real World Commerce
- The category of commerce activity routed through AI systems, wallets, stablecoin payments, marketplaces, and emerging commerce networks that need machine-readable business identity to operate.
- RWA
- Real World Assets. The prior category that brought tangible assets on-chain. RWC is the adoption wave that follows, focused on the businesses and transactions that turn assets into economic activity.
- RWC
- Shorthand for Real World Commerce. The category and the adoption wave that follows Real World Assets, focused on the businesses and transactions that turn assets into everyday economic activity.
- Solana ActionsSolana Context
- A Solana ecosystem primitive for embedding signable on-chain actions in external surfaces. Referenced inside RWC Guide as ecosystem context; integration is roadmap unless a specific integration is marked live on the Why Solana page.
- Solana PaySolana Context
- A Solana ecosystem payment standard. Referenced inside RWC Guide as ecosystem context and builder education; integration with RWC Guide is roadmap unless a specific integration is marked live on the Why Solana page.
- Stablecoin Payment Readiness
- An educational readiness band reported by RWC Guide that reflects whether a business has indicated interest in or capacity to accept stablecoin payments. RWC Guide does not process payments, custody funds, or provide financial services.
- Trust Badges
- Visual emblems surfaced inside IdentityRecord that summarize a business's verified signals. RWC Guide does not award Trust Badges; they are issued by IdentityRecord after accepted work, and the public MVP does not display awarded Trust Badges.
- Trust CreditsTrust Credits
- Product credits inside IdentityRecord that reward the work that strengthens business identity. Trust Credits are not cryptocurrency, are not sold, are not tradable, are not cash, and do not require a wallet.
- Trust Score
- Trust Score is a measurement inside IdentityRecord. RWC Guide public diagnostics use readiness bands and must not present the Known Business Check as a Trust Score.
- Understanding Signals
- Signals that describe whether AI systems and commerce networks can read what the business does — services described in plain language, structured data, and machine-readable surfaces.
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