108 projects. 72 hours. All building with reputation. The first Ethos Vibeathon brought together builders from across crypto to ship products powered by onchain credibility. Here's what happened.
The Winners
Net New Products Track
• 🥇 Nomos (@nomos_protocol) - Decentralized resolution protocol
• 🥈 Ethos Pad (@Back2Matching) - Fair launchpad using Ethos scores to filter participants
Reputation Driven Improvements Track
• 🥇 Telegram Noise Canceler (@dethective) - Telegram feed aggregator with caller performance tracking
• 🥈 Ethos Pocket (@Magicianafk) - Credibility scores on X mobile
What Builders Created
Beyond the winners, 25+ projects were showcased:
• Trust Capital Markets - DeFi research powered by trust and onchain metrics
• Soulbound NFTs - Reusable onchain soulbound NFTs gated by Ethos reputation scores
• ShhNetwork - Anonymous posts with verified credibility: speak freely, let your reputation speak for you
• Ethos Guard - Discord reputation gate to stop bots and scammers
• BuilderCred - GitHub contributions meet onchain reputation
• Ethos Loppers - A mini game to surface AI slop where downvotes directly impact reputation
• CLYR - Find credible Web3 talent backed by onchain reputation
• Vibestarter - Crowdfunding with founder credibility powered by Ethos
What We Saw
• Reputation as the foundation - Without prompting, participants used Ethos scores to filter users, gate access, rank wallets, and add trust signals. It wasn't an afterthought
• The barrier just got lower - Participants with no coding background shipped working demos in 72 hours
• Ethos was embedded, not showcased - The strongest projects solved real problems (fair launches, spam filtering, talent discovery) with Ethos as the trust layer underneath
• Community momentum - Repeat builders led the way and helped newcomers; live judging brought multiple communities together
By the Numbers
• 599 registered
• 108 submitted
• 72 hours
• 4 winners
• 25+ projects showcased
What's Next
This was the first Vibeathon — it won't be the last. We're exploring ways to support the winning projects as they continue building, and talking to partners about bigger prize pools and more tracks for future events.
If you shipped a project and want to keep going, reach out. If you missed this one, stay tuned.
