Reviews, vouches and the social signals behind a credibility score on Ethos. 81 posts.
Ethos reviewers flagged Fomo’s #3 trader @The__Solstice 19 months before a Bubblemaps thread tied him to bundled pump.fun memecoins.
@yichuan_drive, who put $19,000 into the MegaETH public sale, opened a slash against it on Ethos despite 1,438 positive reviews. Voting closes October 25.
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.
On October 2, an Ethos user sent $800 to a counterparty for an OTC deal with no escrow or contract. The whole deal was public on Ethos Broker.
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.
How the WHUF auction’s 85% price guarantee worked, from the October 8 vouch snapshot to Foundation redemptions, USDC payouts and 334k WHUF burned.
The Hazels mint was cancelled five hours after opening on September 30. Founder Rosaaa’s Ethos profile carried a 458-0 community slash.
Vouches on Ethos now earn WHUF rewards, claimable from October 8. Profiles also show how much WHUF each auction referral earned.
Ethos plans to auction 20% of $WHUF supply on September 1, with an 85% price guarantee, XP and referral bonuses, and public bids tied to Ethos profiles.
@serpinxbt is slashing @ashen_one for 250 credibility score over alleged $SLAB team wallet sales. Ashen’s 70-plus supporters risk their score too.
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.
A new daily bounty experiment: every day, everyone reviews the same account. Earn 500 XP and help Ethos build better signal for others.
On April 30, 2026, @hrithikk opened a 250-point Ethos slash against @MedusaOnchain over $SPC, with 89 supporters’ credibility score at stake.
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.
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.
Ethos is experimenting with AI summaries that distill hundreds of reviews into an at-a-glance picture of who someone really is.
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 13, 2026, Ethos pointed users to Megabunnish, a MegaETH app explorer that sorts projects by Ethos score to help people avoid scams.
On February 12, 2026, @batef4380 opened a 203 credibility score slash against @beaverd on Ethos, titled “X’s $1M winner exposed as serial rugger.”
In January 2026, @waleswoosh lost 203 credibility score on Ethos over an undisclosed paid promotion for the $TROVE ICO, in the largest slash at the time.
On January 19, 2026, @TheGodMurdoch opened a slash on Ethos against @loshmi for 243 credibility score over a plagiarized post that was blamed on AI.
The new Ethos Everywhere wallet lets you fund once and never sign a transaction again — plus write reviews from any website, starting with X.
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.
@kickzeth was slashed on Ethos by @SendMyBags in October 2025, then again by @JacoosJacoos in February 2026, putting 100+ supporters’ credibility at stake.
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 September 19, 2025, @adinalini opened a slash against @PirateNation on Ethos for 203 credibility score, calling it a “blatant rug after years of promises.”
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.
EIP-9, proposed by @publius_val and live on Ethos from September 4, 2025, kept the misplaced endorsement penalty from being avoided mid-slash.
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.
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.
On August 5, 2025, @0xJohannes_ opened an Ethos slash against @Pentosh1, citing undisclosed shills, and 48 positive reviewers stood to lose credibility score.
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 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.
On June 16, 2025, Ethos shipped anonymous reviews: privacy preserving, any sentiment, limited to reputable accounts, and powered by @kairosAgent.
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.
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.
On May 22, 2025, @BoltXBT opened an Ethos slash against @dkxbt, calling him a long-time ordinal grifter, over @PopeShroomsBTC and past ties to @mikan_btc.
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.
In May 2025, Ethos gave 2,080 invites to active members, then paused weekly invites to deal with review farming, spam and score balancing issues.
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.
In May 2025, Ethos and Tako launched the first integration letting users write Ethos reviews inside another app, turning Tako Props into onchain reviews.
Ethos pre-season ends today. Validator NFTs sent to top contributors. Season 1 coming soon with weekly XP for high-quality reputation signals.
In May 2025, seven negative Ethos reviews of @eddiewuym helped @usoppu spot a sophisticated DM scam, shown through the Ethos Everywhere Chrome extension.
In May 2025, Ethos looked at Movement’s 54 reviews, 40% positive, and the top upvoted neutral reviews behind its “questionable” score.
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 21, 2025, Ethos let users translate reviews, vouches and slashes from any language into English, a first step in its broader localization plans.
In April 2025, Ethos partnered with Tako Protocol to surface Ethos reviews in other social interfaces and added a “Tako circle” leaderboard category.
EIP-2 adds community moderation to reviews: upvotes boost impact, downvotes reduce it, making scores more accurate and aligned with sentiment.
On April 12, 2025, Ethos added live LLM-based analysis that encouraged users to add more detail to their reviews and vouches as they wrote them.
EIP-1 makes adjustments to the mutual vouching bonus as well as the increasing the impact of ELO score difference calculations on reviews
In March and April 2025, Ethos added voting badges to slash comments, showed who upvoted or downvoted content, and introduced a new revered level.
In March 2025, @Fookin_No_Wan built a Dune query that let anyone search archived Ethos reviews and see who voted on what, since Ethos activity is onchain.
(3,3) + cooperation are critical to the success of Ethos & crypto's social landscape ...but it's largely misunderstood & misdescribed. What happens when it gets abused on Ethos?
How does Ethos resist mob culture? One of the most broken things in web2 reviewing & scoring systems is they are victim to mob reviews & censorship. Here's how Ethos solves that
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 has launched on Base mainnet on January 22, 2025- Everything you need to know about the launch is in here
In early 2025, Ethos launched “@ethosAgent save,” letting anyone reply to a tweet to store it onchain as an Ethos review, even if it was later deleted.
The Ethos AI Agents securing credibility & reputation in web3
Who do you trust in crypto? Who should be avoided? Ethos brings accountability to crypto, onchain.
When you decide a place to go eat, do you look at their financials? Or do you see what people say about them? Why our trust signals in crypto are missing today...
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.
Honest, authentic reviews from real people. Ethos is bringing this onchain.
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?
Friend.tech showed us that personal reputation could be instrumented and captured on the blockchain.. what did we learn from that and how might we adapt in building Ethos?
Spoofed credibility is one of the easiest thing you can purchase in Web3 today. 11 cents buys the perception of incredible reach on Twitter. So what does $20 and an intern get you?
Determining the credibility of crypto teams and projects is incredibly challenging in a pseudonymous world. What signals do we have today? Are they the right ones?
Reputation and credibility are at the forefront of every interaction we have in modern society. It’s how we filter signal from noise - what does someone else say about a product, a service, a business?
