Ethos tracked 101 ecosystem apps across MegaETH and Abstract and found that only about 4 of 65 Abstract apps had activated their profiles. The other 61 were being reviewed and scored anyway, with no one from the team taking part.
That matters to anyone building in crypto. A team’s reputation on Ethos is being built whether or not it shows up, and the scores already separate projects by hundreds of points.
The trust deficit in crypto
Crypto teams ask communities to trust them with millions of dollars, but offer nothing verifiable in return. According to Chainalysis, $17B+ was lost to crypto scams in 2025, up from $12B in 2024.
Against that backdrop, a public record of what people say about a team is one of the few signals a community can check before committing money.
What the scores show
Ethos looked at two ecosystems:
- MegaETH: 36 apps tracked
- Abstract: 65 apps tracked
Across both, the gaps between the best and worst scored projects ran to 500+ points. On Abstract, the gap widens to 619 points. For reference, the Abstract chain itself scores 2075, rated Exemplary.
Among the 36 MegaETH projects listed on Ethos, the top scorers share common traits: high volumes of genuine positive reviews, active community engagement, and credibility scores well above the 1400 baseline.
MegaETH leaderboard
- #1 Bad Bunnz: 1667
- #2 Euphoria: 1584
- #3 Cap: 1568
- #4 Meganacci: 1554
- #5 Showdown: 1543
- #35 Paw: 1170
- #36 BRIX: 1111
Abstract apps leaderboard
- #1 Gigaverse: 1851
- #2 Relay: 1754
- #3 xeet: 1753
- #5 Sugartown: 1728
- #44 Spellborne: 1263
- #50 SegMint: 1232
Most profiles are unmanaged
On Abstract, 61 of 65 tracked apps have not activated their Ethos profile. Their scores still move. Anyone can leave a review, so the picture of each team is being formed by its community, its critics and everyone in between, without a response from the team.
The score is a living signal. The question for a team isn’t whether it has an Ethos reputation, but whether it is engaging with it or letting the narrative be written without it.
Ethos CEO Serpin Taxt put it in four words:
“Ethos is the canary.”
A score that drifts or drops is an early read on how a community feels, and teams that aren’t watching their profile miss it.
What an activated profile lets a team do
Activating a profile is free. Once a team has done it, the study lists four things it can do:
- Respond to reviews: reply to the reviews the community leaves
- Pin endorsements: keep the strongest endorsements at the top of the profile
- Build vouches: form vouching relationships where real ETH is staked on the team’s reputation
- Verify as human: verify through Proof of Humanity
None of these change what people have already said. They give a team a way to take part in the record rather than leaving it entirely to others.
Why it matters
For communities, the leaderboards show that projects in the same ecosystem can sit hundreds of points apart, and that the top scorers tend to be the ones with genuine reviews and active engagement. For teams, the numbers from Abstract show how common it still is to leave a public reputation unmanaged, even as it shapes how people judge them.
This article is adapted from the Ethos case study.
