On August 15, Ethos added Ethos scores to the fomo web app through the Ethos Chrome extension. If you trade on fomo and follow other people’s theses, you can now see how credible those traders are before you decide whose calls to follow.
A month later, on September 15, Ethos shared a post from a user who said the same extension stopped them from being drained by a scammer.
Whose thesis is worth following?
On fomo, traders share positions and others can follow along. The hard part is knowing who deserves that trust. With the extension installed, Ethos scores now appear alongside traders in the fomo web app.
Ethos gave an example of the difference this makes. Are you following @vydamo_, a reputable trader with 141 positive reviews at the time of the post? Or are you unintentionally tailing someone who’s been slashed?
Without that context, the two can look much the same on a trading screen. With it, a trader’s record on Ethos sits right next to their positions.
How the update rolls out
The fomo integration began rolling out on August 15 through an automated update to the Chrome extension. There’s nothing to download if you already have the extension, but you will need to grant permission. Ethos said the permission prompt should pop up automatically the next time Chrome loads.
A user’s near miss
On September 15, Ethos pointed people without the extension to a post from @0xshubh as an example of why they should install it.
In that post, @0xshubh described being approached by an account presenting itself as a big whale in the Pudgy ecosystem, offering to gift them a Pudgy so they could stay part of the community. The account looked legitimate:
- 23K followers
- 50+ mutuals
- Constant posts about Pudgy and big memecoin wins
@0xshubh said the two had a good conversation about Pudgy’s future, and the account then asked to get on a call “just to connect.” When @0xshubh opened their laptop to join, the Ethos extension showed the account’s score: 640, which they called “really questionable.” On the account’s Ethos profile, they found 30 reviews describing how it had been scamming members of the Pudgy community in this same way.
“I was so close to getting drained because it all felt so real and organic.”
@0xshubh wrote that without that warning, they would have lost everything they had made over the last four years. They thanked @serpinxbt and urged others to install extensions like Ethos, because “you never know what might save you from losing your everything.”
Why it matters
Both updates come down to the same idea: reputation is most useful when it shows up where you’re making a decision. Whether you’re choosing which trader to tail on fomo or deciding whether to take a call with a stranger, the extension puts what others have said about an account in front of you at that moment.
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