For brevity lol. And maybe getting you to think yourself out of your rut.

But here are your answers:

**What model better fits zaps?**

Physical Favors.

**How are they securing the Nostr trust network?**

Favors are an olive branch extended to say, "Hey, I'm trustworthy." Good favors have a component of power projection to them. An expense of time and energy "in your favor" is a good way to build trust.

Zap me some sats and you're giving me something you earned by the sweat of your brow, so to speak. It's nothing you can take for granted (unless you're a certain memer here).

Naturally, you'll remember and trust the people who zap you, and you'll zap them back. Along with all your other interactions, it serves as a bedrock for building mutual trust.

**How can you harness that power?**

Every zap you make and ever interaction you have on Nostr is stored in your relays. No one is doing this, but all that information, but especially the zaps, form a network graph. Adding up the weighted zaps and engagements between npubs gets you a pretty good score of their mutual trust. Expanding that to the whole network gets you a literal Web of Trust.

Put it in a graph database and you're harnessing Softwar to secure a social network.