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Interactive tool

TIM Sybil collapse visualizer

Watch the Trust Independence Metric collapse Sybil rings in real-time, and compare against EigenTrust and SybilRank.

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0.80
TIM discount (tau)
1.000
TIM
Effective weight
0.0
100% collapsed
No seeds needed
Best defense
EigenTrust
Effective weight
0.0
100% collapsed
Needs pre-trusted seeds
SybilRank
Effective weight
0.0
100% collapsed
Needs seeds + global graph
Effective Sybil influence (lower = better defense)
TIM
0.0
0%
EigenTrust
0.0
0%
SybilRank
0.0
0%
Ghost bar = raw weight without defense. Percentage = influence retained.
Honest
Sybil
Target
Seed (EigenTrust/SybilRank)

TIM analyzes neighborhood overlap of endorsers. No seeds, no global state. Collapses rings with high overlap to near-zero.

EigenTrust uses iterative propagation from pre-trusted seeds. Sybils connected to honest nodes inherit residual trust.

SybilRank uses random walks from seeds. Trust decays with graph distance. Sybils near honest nodes get partial trust leakage.

TIM excels against cheap Sybil attacks (high overlap). Seed-based methods can outperform when the adversary invests in diverse connections — but require pre-trusted seeds and global graph access that ITP deliberately avoids.