How the Ethos credibility score works and how it changes: the algorithm, EIPs and score updates. 96 posts.
lex_node spotted Grok using Ethos reputation scores to make a decision, as the Ethos team works to make profiles, reviews and slashes discoverable to LLMs.
Five weeks after @credifi began lending to Ethos profiles scoring over 1800 with no collateral or KYC, there had been zero defaults as of October 5.
Credifi lets Ethos users with 1800+ scores borrow up to $3,000 with no collateral or KYC. Here’s the reaction, the terms and how it compares to DeFi loans.
Spritehood sold out in under an hour on August 11. Reviews on @ColeThereum’s Ethos profile had warned buyers for months before the gate opened.
Legion shows Jumper’s Ethos score before you commit to its sale, and an Ethos score of 1200+ earns Valor Points toward Jumper’s Republic allocation draw.
PRED gated a deposit bonus by Ethos score through Exclusive Access: 185 users deposited $41,674, 60% of them traded, and PRED paid nothing to reach them.
How do you short someone's reputation? Ethos Trade launches in beta: open long/short markets on any X account, GitHub repo, or YouTube channel.
Before you integrate, co market, or put your name next to a project, its Ethos score is the fastest read on what the people closest to it actually believe.
SendMyBags opened a 204-point slash against Polymarket’s onchain reputation on Ethos. The 425 users vouching for Polymarket could lose over 9,000 score.
Ethos Exclusive Access gives users with strong scores perks from partners like Megapot and Upshot, and lets teams reach real, verified people in crypto.
Megapot ran an Ethos Exclusive Access activation that gave out 14,000 free lottery tickets on Base, gated by Ethos score, with no agency fee.
We've recently invested heavily in understanding more about our Ethos users and how partner teams can leverage this data in everything from GTM to token sales.
Users with an Ethos score over 1400 can now sign up without an invite. Search your score, prove ownership, secure your spot — without asking anyone.
Vibestarter and Legion show a founder’s Ethos score on sale pages. Vibestarter adds escrow released monthly and a 72-hour window for backers to challenge.
Ethos validators can now verify any X account as human, and on May 21 the threshold to verify others dropped to a credibility score of 1600.
EIP-15 taps the social signal Ethos was barely using — X, Farcaster, GitHub — to give users with established profiles more score from existing credibility graphs.
Legion integrates Ethos twice over: VP toward guaranteed sale allocations for 1200+ users, and Ethos Scores on every project page so you can vet founders before you invest.
EIP-14 extends review cycle detection to catch triangles and rectangles, not just reciprocal reviews. Some scores drop — and the ones that remain mean more.
Slash #411 pushed the mechanism further than ever — and exposed real flaws. The retro: a CEO score ceiling, anonymous voting, abstain options, and mob prevention.
In Cambria’s presale, 568 of 960 participants had Ethos scores, and those wallets committed 66% more on average than wallets without one.
Mimix, formerly Tunnl, shows Ethos scores on creator profiles and lets brands set a minimum score for campaigns. It took less than a week to ship.
Tunnl officially integrates Ethos scores. Brands can now gate influencer campaigns by credibility — ensuring creators are reputable and aligned with brand standards.
Ethos tracked 101 MegaETH and Abstract apps and found score gaps of 500+ points, while 61 of 65 Abstract apps had not activated their profiles.
On February 12, 2026, Ethos shared ethos-cli, an npm package that lets OpenClaw agents factor Ethos scores into debriefs and quick X account checks.
MegaETH’s token sale drew $1.39B from 53,000+ participants. With Ethos scores in its allocation system, it narrowed them to about 6,000 and blocked sybil clusters.
Blackhaven (coming to MegaETH) gives Early Access boosts by Ethos score: 10% at 1600+, 12.5% at 1800+, 15% at 2000+. Works even if you've never signed up for Ethos.
In January 2026, @grebby opened a 200-point credibility slash against Rainbow over a last-minute creator rewards change. By January 30, the slash had failed.
In January 2026, @rarefinds opened a slash against Ansem (@blknoiz06) on Ethos for 178 credibility score. It failed to reach the 60% consensus needed.
On January 22, 2026, Ethos lowered the requirement for opening a slash from 1600 to 1400, and five new slashes were opened against prominent accounts.
Moca Network integrates Ethos using zkProof technology. Prove your reputation without revealing your score—privacy and credibility combined.
On December 1, 2025, Ethos pointed to ActionModel’s perks for users with a 1300+ Ethos score as an example of what Ethos Everywhere looks like.
Between September and November 2025, sybil wallets took $174M+ from MYX, Apriori and IRYS. Here’s how each attack worked and where reputation filtering fits.
In November 2025, 76% of Ethos voters backed a slash against Berachain over a 12-month refund to Nova, dropping its score from 1649 to 1470.
Solstice now integrates Ethos reputation scores. Your credibility is portable across the expanding web3 ecosystem.
On November 13, 2025, @PremiumSaltine_ opened a slash against @fantasy_top_ on Ethos for 150 credibility score, with 508 supporters’ scores at stake.
Think Ethos is easily gamed? Here are 20 mechanisms we use to prevent gaming—from invitation bonds and score-weighted reviews to slashing risks and bounties for catching abusers.
EIP-12 and EIP-13 are now live. EIP-12 introduces influence handicaps, while EIP-13 recalibrates vouching to penalize low-stakes vouch farms. Scores are recalculating.
EIP-13 recalibrates vouching to stop 0.01 ETH vouch spam attacks. Quality over quantity—meaningful vouches from reputable users now matter more.
On October 27, 2025, Ethos announced that Rickbot showed Ethos credibility scores in Telegram, with a quick link to each profile for faster due diligence.
MegaETH will use Ethos scores in their token distribution. Higher credibility scores may improve your eligibility—reputation is now portable value in Web3.
In October 2025, X accounts with an Ethos score above 2000 were eligible for a Title Deed NFT if they registered a SUI wallet on Momentum’s site by October 30.
On October 15, 2025, @BoredElonMusk opened a 150-point slash against Binance on Ethos, saying the exchange should be honest about taxing its customers.
EIP-11 introduces Wallet Quality Score—analyzing on-chain history to better identify sybils and reward long-term participants.
In October 2025 Ethos added broker to its home page, profiles and X extension. By January 2026 it carried a paid request for reviews on @intodotspace.
On October 2, 2025, @PedroFounder slashed @profcryptotalks on Ethos, days after the “KOL of the Year” title, leaving a “Questionable” score of 1057.
Veil.Cash integrates Ethos for privacy-preserving reputation in DeFi. Prove credibility without revealing identity.
In September 2025, Ethos proposed EIP-10 to fix invitation bonds by using the top 2 and bottom 2 invitees. It took effect on October 1, 2025.
In September 2025, @publius_val slashed exemplary-rated @PixOnChain over Polymarket P&L claims. The slash failed and cost the slasher a 100-point bond.
In September 2025, @solashenone opened a slash on Ethos accusing @gainzy222 of rugging his own $160K+ token. Over 200 people voted and 79% backed it, dropping his score to 905.
In September 2025, @cromeshnik slashed @LucaNetz, the first slash against an Exemplary account. Luca was defended and the 207-point bond was lost.
On August 15, 2025, @lex_node opened a slash on Ethos against @finnbags for 100 credibility score over donations made through community memecoins.
EIP-9, proposed by @publius_val and live on Ethos from September 4, 2025, kept the misplaced endorsement penalty from being avoided mid-slash.
In August 2025, Cerebro and StationX tied Ethos scores to allowlists and fundraising, Puffpaw planned to add them to its leaderboard, and Ethos pitched them for launch pads like Blind, all to favor real, credible users.
A record of Ethos’s weekly XP drops from August 8 to October 3, 2025: score penalties, anti-farming changes, a top-2,500 cap, vouch rules and invites.
EIP-6 lets you mark AI-generated or spam reviews on your profile. Flag generic positive reviews that don't actually describe you and help keep Ethos spam-free.
Install Ethos as a PWA on your phone. Get real-time notifications for score changes, respond to slashes quickly, and vote on EIPs from anywhere.
Ethos introduces the “Known” credibility level (1400-1600) to better differentiate genuine newcomers from spam accounts. Neutral users now have 0 voting impact as the platform scales its anti-spam measures.
EIP-6 and EIP-7 are live. EIP-6 penalizes positive reviews downvoted by their recipients; EIP-7 neutralizes spam reviews. Review sloppers and R4R farmers beware.
Ethos launches Community EIPs, giving users the power to propose changes to how credibility scores are calculated. Anyone with an active Ethos profile can now submit and vote on governance proposals.
The Ethos Chrome extension displays credibility scores on X profiles, helping you filter out AI-generated slop and bots. See who's real and who's noise—instantly.
A 2025 slash by @publius_val accusing @heycape_ of undisclosed paid promotions drew record votes and ended in a 50/50 split, so no one lost credibility score.
On July 30, 2025, Ethos updated its Chrome extension so Farcaster users could see Ethos credibility scores directly in the Farcaster web app.
On July 23, 2025, @buz_eth opened a slash against @erosAgent, an agent with 650+ positive reviewers, in what could have been the largest score hit on Ethos.
On July 22, 2025, ConsumerFi announced it was integrating Ethos into its social graph, using Ethos scores to raise users’ Compute Credit scores.
EIP-5 introduces reputation boosts for users with established social graphs, allowing up to +400 credibility based on existing social presence. This helps normalize scores for well-known figures.
In July 2025, @ShoaibHereWeb3 opened an Ethos slash against Bybit over a failed presale. Voters defended Bybit 561 to 249, costing the slasher 200 points.
In June 2025, Ethos proposed and shipped EIP-4, tying its reputation markets to the Ethos score, with up to +400 or -400 points based on market size.
On June 6, 2025, @katexbt opened a 200-score slash against @marginfi on Ethos, citing wasted potential and bad comms. Five other users had score at stake.
Introducing Ethos Listings—cast bullish or bearish votes on projects using your reputation-weighted voting power. Signal what you believe in, backed by credibility.
On June 5, 2025, @heycape_ opened a 214-point slash against @crypto__kermit on Ethos, putting 25 credibility points of his supporters at stake too.
On June 4, 2025, @Knox556 opened a 202-point slash against @udiWertheimer on Ethos, and under EIP-3.1 many of Udi’s supporters risked losing credibility.
On June 4, 2025, @CyphrGM opened a slash against @TrustlessState for 65 credibility score, putting the scores of 63 supporters at risk too.
On June 4, 2025, @BoredElonMusk opened an Ethos slash against @a1lon9 for 65 credibility score, putting 62 supporters’ scores at risk as well.
On June 3, 2025, @Chilearmy123 opened a slash against @blast on Ethos for 200 credibility score, calling it one of crypto’s biggest fumbles.
On June 1, 2025, @DidiTrading opened a slash against @Teeznutz11 on Ethos for 215 credibility score. Here’s who defended them and who disagreed.
In June 2025, EIP-3.1 was approved and went live on Ethos: users who positively reviewed or vouched for a slashed account lose 10% or 20% of the slashed credibility score.
After 113 days on Base, here's our honest assessment on Ethos' three goals: identifying bad actors, separating signal from noise, and recognizing reputable people.
From May to July 2025, independent developers added Ethos scores to token trackers and built reputation tools, leading to a new Built on Ethos page.
In May 2025, Ethos looked at Movement’s 54 reviews, 40% positive, and the top upvoted neutral reviews behind its “questionable” score.
Ethos scores now live on OpenSea via our Chrome extension. See who’s credible, who’s not, and make smarter NFT moves with onchain reputation data.
On April 24, 2025, Ethos launched an experiment letting anyone submit anonymous reviews via a form, posted onchain by the low-credibility @kairosAgent.
On April 24, 2025, @JPEG_Yakuza_ opened a social slash against @zora on Ethos for 100 credibility score, titled “The Playbook on exactly what NOT to do.”
EIP-2 adds community moderation to reviews: upvotes boost impact, downvotes reduce it, making scores more accurate and aligned with sentiment.
EIP-1 makes adjustments to the mutual vouching bonus as well as the increasing the impact of ELO score difference calculations on reviews
For all future credibility score changes, we will be weighing the community's input through Snapshot
On March 18, 2025, Kabbal added Ethos credibility scores to its influencer campaigns with a simple API call, as Ethos opened its developer docs.
In March 2025, Ethos changed how invitations affected credibility scores, then cut upvote, account age and inviter credit in release v0.1.8.
Social slashing is now live on Ethos. Active users may now slash Ethos users or X accounts. There's a catch - you have to risk your own credibility score
On February 14, 2025, Ethos brought its credibility scores to the Kaito dashboard via its Chrome extension, showing reputation next to mindshare.
Ethos’s early numbers from February 2025: 3,848 reviews in two weeks, 500 users in 30 days, top credibility gainers, and invites bonded to scores.
Ethos is ending the testnet period and moving to mainnet in January
The Ethos AI Agents securing credibility & reputation in web3
A record of Ethos testnet updates from September to October 2024: review prompts, reviewing from Twitter, a mobile PWA and score impact previews.
We are LIVE on Base Testnet! Read more about how to get setup with Ethos, how to help us test, and what to do if you didn't make the waitlist
Reviewing, vouching, slashing and inviting make up the four major mechanics that help us observe, instrument and measure onchain credibility.
Ethos is working on a credibility score for Web3. What goes into that? Where do you start? Who determines the algorithm? And how does that change over time?
