Here you rate profiles, leave reviews. Participants can like them, affecting your review.
There are also Vouchers: support with an amount in ETH (from 0.01 ETH). The higher your score, the more you have supported, the more influence on the score of the supported.
There is also slashing: an announcement of a desire to significantly lower the score of some account.
By completing daily streaks with tasks to rate profiles and reviews, you get XP.
From time to time, the scoring algorithm may change.
Such mechanics create, in the opinion of the founders, an excellent system for scoring profiles.
Let's see how good the project is.

There is an article about the founders:

Trevor Thompson - CEO:

His experience is mainly related to products: for over 12 years, he held various positions related to them, from creating predictive models in R for financial teams to the first hired engineer in a Y-combinator startup that tried to create an independent chat product for Slack, Teams, and Hipchat.
Trevor joined Atlassian in 2017 as a product specialist, responsible for the Hipchat ecosystem and developer engagement. After Hipchat closed, he helped expand Atlassian's integration reach from about 30,000 users to over 3 million, attracting about 150,000 new Jira licenses through various growth methods related to integrations. Then he met Ben and joined the new products team to help bring the Beacon idea to life.
He has been in crypto since 2011, but after seeing the drop from $30, he left. Returned only in 2017. And in 2020, he created the Pokestonks community for Pokemon fans for $35 a month (now free, but active). Realizing what worked, he created NiftyStonks for NFT trading, and in 2022 with co-founders created the liquid trading fund 0x5f Capital.
Also worked at Friend.tech.

Ben Walter:

A security specialist protecting against hacks since 2006.

His career combines academia, professional institutions, and Silicon Valley startups. Ben's enthusiasm is partly due to his early experience at FINRA, where he identified fake trading. FINRA is an organization with nearly a century of history, created by respected traders who tried to stand out in the then chaotic market.
Since then, he has helped uncover collusion on Pokerstars, fight bots in MMOs, and detect insurance fraud. He has always been aware of academic achievements: graduated from Cornell University, wrote a book on web security published by O'Reilly, and taught at Berkeley and Tufts University.
In 2015, he became the second employee hired at Stackrox, a security startup. In 2017, Stackrox was funded by Sequoia and then acquired by Red Hat for a sum in the nine-digit range.
At that time, he gave up on ETH due to the DAO hack, concluding that these immutable smart contracts were not secure enough to protect in complex conditions. Interested in privacy and viewing cryptocurrency as a currency rather than an asset, he bought Monero.
This itch to solve problems with new products did not disappear even after joining Atlassian. He presented the Beacon idea (another security product) to the internal accelerator. Together with Trevor, they formed a team, product, and concept.

Minus - no links to profiles...

Found through search Ethos profile on LinkedIn:

68 followers.

Company people:

Trevor Thompson:

503 followers. Shares third-party content in posts.

Work experience:

• Cofounder & CEO at Ethos since January 2024

• Managing Partner at PNG Capital, LLC since April 2022

• Director of Product, Fintech at Housecall Pro from May 2023 to January 2024

• At Atlassian: Lead Product Manager, Integrations from April 2018 to March 2022, Lead Product Manager, Beacon from March 2022 to May 2023

• Technical Product Manager at Mio from December 2016 to April 2018

• Product Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from October 2013 to December 2016

Studied at Baylor University: Bachelor's degree, Computer Science.

Good experience in leading and managing products.

Vitalii Saienko:

1,014 followers

Content is also mostly shared.

Work experience:

• Founding Engineer at Ethos since May 2024 (remote work)

• At SoftServe: Trainee Software Engineering from April to July 2017, Junior Software Engineer from August 2017 to August 2018, Middle Software Engineer from September 2018 to July 2020, Senior Software Engineer from August 2020 to October 2022, Tech Lead Software Engineer from November 2022 to April 2024

• WEB Developer at LAB01 from March 2016 to March 2017

Education:

• Free Code Camp: Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering from 2016 to 2017

• Zhytomyr National Agroecological University: Master of management, Management and Economics from 2010 to 2016

Professional in engineering, software creation.

Seth Gholson:

549 followers. Last post 11 months ago about joining Ethos. It received 119 reactions, 21 comments, and 2 reposts.

Work experience:

• Founding Engineer at Ethos since September 2024

• At Atlassian: Senior Android Developer from May 2014 to October 2015, Android Team Lead from October 2015 to January 2018, Software Engineering Manager - Stride from January to August 2018, Android Engineering Manager, Trello from August 2018 to June 2019, Software Engineering Manager, Product Integrations from June 2019 to March 2021, Senior Software Engineer, Halp (Dev Lead) from March 2021 to July 2024, Senior Software Engineer - Central AI from July to August 2024.

• Senior Software Developer at PioneerRx Pharmacy Software from October 2019 to June 2014

Education:

• LSU Shreveport: Master of Science, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology from 2009 to 2011

• Louisiana Tech University: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), General Studies from 2001 to 2005

Also a professional: held various engineering positions.

Miro Kirov:

1,809 followers. Last post 3 years ago with 3 reactions.

Work Experience:

• Senior UX Designer at Ethos since May 2024

• Senior UX Designer at theom from January 2024 to December 2024

• Senior UX Designer at Adobe from January 2022 to December 2023

• Lead UX Designer at Fleetpal from January 2021 to December 2021

• Senior UX Designer at Amazon from January 2020 to December 2020

• Senior UX Designer at Atlassian from January 2018 to December 2019

• Lead UX Designer at SoftServe from January 2016 to December 2017

• Senior UX Designer at Despark from January to December 2015

• Total 10.

Education:

• New Bulgarian University: Master of Arts (MA), Graphic Design from 2013 to 2015

• Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski: Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics from 2008 to 2013

Professional. Gradually grew in design experience.

Benjamin Walther:

757 followers. Last post was 11 months ago with 119 reactions, 21 comments, 2 reposts. About a new engineer joining the Ethos team.

Work experience:

• Cofounder & CTO at Ethos Labs since January 2024

• Senior Security Architect at Atlassian from November 2017 to January 2024

• Member of Technical Staff at StackRox from April 2015 to September 2017

• Senior Security Engineer at Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies from October 2013 to April 2015

• Information Security - Application Risk Consultant at Tufts University from May 2011 to August 2013

• And others (total 9)

Studied at Cornell University: B.S., Information Science from 2002 to 2006

Also a professional in security and technologies.

Discord:

The chat is active. They answered my questions. Although I asked for a command with links, they provided an article without them. But I found them myself in the search later.

With the /verify_ethos command, you can add a role with a score after authorizing on the site and connecting Discord.

In the announcements, the last post today:

They periodically post their content in the appropriate section (there is also one today):

In general, the DS is active.

X @ethos_network:

57.3K subscribers, 1,788 posts.

The last post was on August 19 (yesterday) about slashing with 19 replies, 6 reposts, 85 likes, and 3,614 views.
The previous one was also on August 19 about an update in Ethos with 62 replies, 24 reposts, 286 likes, and 11,461 views.

Analysis by Moni:

Moni Score
Level: 6. High
9238
+2 per day.

11.15 thousand mentions, 1.14K smart mentions.

Projects: @decentraland, @SneakyninjaNFTs, @underground, @MingoAirdrop, @Altcoinist_com, @VelocimeterDEX, @mywebacy, @Whitelist1Media, @frans6cur.

VC: @ManifoldTrading, @Alphaverse_NFT.

Analysis by Tweetscout:

Bot level 1 (Excellent), Score 1394 (level 4 - Significant).

Subscribed projects: @osf_rekt, @anonchained, @moonpay, @decentraland, @DegenerateNews, @0n1Force, @SuperchiefNFT, @S4mmyEth and others.

Venture capital: @loomdart, eGirl Capital 仙女資本, @bryanbrinkman, Metaversal, @mrjasonchoi, The Spartan Group and others.

Rating 4 out of 5: team information is available on LinkedIn, but there is no link to the company profile (had to search for it myself). Discord is active, questions were answered quickly. However, in response to a question about the team, they provided a link to an article without specifying the team members' profiles. But overall, the response was appropriate.
X profile is also active, and he has a good moni score.
Minus one point for the response regarding the team.

They have developer documentation, but we won't consider it as there is Whitepaper:

As they write, Ethos measures reliability and reputation in the network.

Cryptocurrency lacks an easily readable and understandable reputation, and Ethos fills this gap. Ethos provides a trust rating with a support profile similar to a credit report, but with open protocols and on-chain records. Ethos incentivizes ethical behavior through social Proof of Stake - a decentralized validation mechanism based on consensus and based on human values, judgments, and actions.

They also propose to modify the Ethereum consensus to account for social factors based on Ethos, but I think it's a crazy idea at this stage: the rating definition is not perfect.

It's important that it's described why the project is relevant: there are too many scammers and dishonest people, and it's hard to identify them.

The Ethos protocol provides the following set of interconnected mechanisms. Together, they form a common platform, incentivize ethical behavior, and form a trust rating.

• Reviews. Ethos provides a standard interface for ratings and comments. Reviews allow you to develop a reputation without being limited to financial investments.

• Vouches. Participants can vouch for others with their ETH (or, in the future, other assets). This is the highest indicator of trust in Ethos, closest to traditional staking in Proof of Stake systems.

• Slash. If a validator (profile evaluator) acts dishonestly, anyone who confirms it can stake ETH to propose a reduction. If the 'validators' confirm unethical actions, the reduction will take a percentage of the staked ETH from the offender's amount fixed in the Ethos contract. Rejected reductions will punish the proposer by redistributing their staked ETH.

• Invitations. To participate in Ethos, users must be invited through an existing Ethos profile. Invitations are not automatically added to the user's profile and are inherently limited. Invitations create trust relationships between inviters and invitees, preventing the invitation of dishonest users or themselves. This helps Ethos maintain a network resistant to sybil attacks.

• Attestation. To reflect the authority, reputation, and influence of other sources, you can verify other social media profiles to consolidate them into a single Ethos profile.

• Credibility Assessment (Credibility Score). By interpreting social interactions generated by the mechanisms described above, Ethos generates a single numerical credibility metric.

• Ethos Profile. The profile displays the trust assessment and provides supporting information. From the profile, you can learn about allies and enemies, praises and missteps, restrained and broken promises, etc.

• Impact. Since authority is too powerful to be left in the hands of centralized influence, Ethos Labs will transfer control over the scoring algorithm to participants.

I like it.

The project founders aim to link the profile to reputation without sacrificing anonymity. This is important because many people do not care about their long-term reputation.
But in the current version, Ethos can provide false information, as people can have biased attitudes towards someone. But how to solve this, I don't know.

The Ethos team believes:

1. Cryptocurrencies and web3 are going through a "Wild West" period. Trust levels are low. Fraud is thriving. Reputation is easily sacrificed for profit.

2. Currently, we are trying to assess reliability based on imperfect metrics such as Twitter followers, the number of funds in a wallet, and transaction history. Compare this to TradFi with its credit reports and Consumer Reports; or web2 with TrustPilot, Yelp, etc.

3. If you could check the trust profile of the people you interact with, you could avoid costly mistakes and determine, and even increase, the level of trust of each individual you meet online.

These answers form a potential solution as follows:

A brief profile should reflect the most significant events from the growing history of online behavior. To gather this information, participants receive incentives to encourage them to leave reviews and confirm positive actions of others. Informant accusations are checked by a trusted community. In Ethos, all this is briefly reflected in the credibility rating.

It is important that to ensure long-term fairness, Ethos intends to avoid centralized ownership. Decentralized management is planned as part of the protocol and corporate structure. The creators did not attract venture capital to limit excessive control over token distribution. For the first business angels, there were strict limits on the maximum issue size.

We all thrive when we can reliably exchange goods and services. Unethical behavior drains markets, increasing risk, reducing participation, and ultimately making us all poorer.

Thanks to Ethos, opportunities will open up for those with a long history of ethical behavior. For scammers, fraudsters, and unethical people, it will be expensive, risky, and long to fake these signals. Ethos increases investments in ethical and increases costs for unethical.

In the mission, I encounter the phrase below for the second time, and it bothers me (presumptuous to think that they will be so in demand):

"We assume that in the not too distant future, no one will take you seriously until you have an Ethos profile."

Overall, the mission is as follows:

"Creating and maintaining a reputation on the blockchain should be so simple and ordinary that there will be no excuses for it. When it becomes so automatic that we don't even think about it, the cryptocurrency market will reach a stage of development where fraud becomes rare and obvious."

Ethos Goals

1. Make financial incentives based on reputation, not fraud.
   Expected result: projects, coins and funds using Ethos collect above-average investment volumes.

2. Raise the bar for the concept of "trust" in web3.
   Expected result: the percentage of leading crypto influencers supporting Ethos profiles grows.

3. Foster the growth of the crypto industry by making it safer for new users.
   Expected result: the share of new crypto market participants connecting to Ethos increases.

4. Save the crypto industry billions of dollars by preventing scams and rug-pull projects.
   Expected result: Ethos participants caught in fraud permanently lose their reputation.

5. Lead by example, demonstrating the power of ethical behavior.
   Expected result: a gradual transition of management - from centralized control, through intermediate stages (point system), to fully decentralized management.

Let's start with reviews. They shape the user's reputation.
You can rate negatively, neutrally, and positively - this is a format understandable to everyone. And thanks to the text, readers can get quality information about the user.

You can only leave a review with a valid Ethos profile (by invitation), which helps reduce sybil attacks. Also, the fact that reviews are not anonymous (the author is visible) reduces spam and attacks by fake accounts.

Influence on Reputation

• The opinion of a user with a high reputation has a stronger influence on the final reputation.

• If a person only gives positive (or only negative) reviews, their weight decreases.

• The age and number of reviews are taken into account.

• Reviews from mutual friends/guarantors have a greater effect.

• All rules are transparent, documented through the Credibility Score.

Quick and free reviews provide an early signal; not always accurate, but can warn about a problem. For example, about a new scammer.
It's an easy way to report someone without risking money right away.

The thing about reviews is that they allow you to earn a reputation even without capital and connections.

It's also cool that through the API, applications can add tags and options for their market. For example, a web3 freelance exchange can offer adding reviews with tags of the performer or customer through the Ethos API (this is my idea, not from the white paper).

In the future, there will be an option for anonymous reviews with ZK-proofs (example: "a user with high reputation negatively rated Bob").

Let's move on to vouchers. This is an expression of high trust because you put ETH (in the future - other assets) in support of some Ethos profile (address or social proof). In case of slashing, you can lose the amount.
Only the guarantor manages the stake, the user cannot withdraw or redirect them.

Accordingly, the amount of staked ETH shows the strength of trust.

It is important that one powerful guarantor is often more valuable than many weak ones, and mutual guaranteeing (“3,3”) gives both parties significant reputation bonuses. At the same time, if someone cancels a voucher - a strong signal of distrust.
When breaking mutual guarantee, the recipient can mark "unhealthy exit" within 24 hours - signaling a problem to the community.

Vouchers affect the Ethos reputation score (Credibility Score) gradually (currently - over 6 months).

Slashing procedure (penalty): someone accuses, validators vote, if proven, the penalty is taken from the accused's stake (up to 10%), but you can take the score instead of money.
Repeated slashing is only possible after 72 hours.

They write that you can fully withdraw your stake at any time, but in one chat I read about blocking the stake for 6 months (until the end of the season). I haven't checked it myself yet. However, you cannot change the size of the guarantee without a full withdrawal.

Philosophy of guarantee and penalties

• Long-term mutual guarantee is the main indicator of trust.

• Fines for errors should be proportional, but intentional deception should be strictly punished.

• If reputation is destroyed - all guarantors withdraw their assets - this is a social collapse. But you can always start a new anonymous profile.

About Invite (Invitation)

To create an Ethos profile, you need an invitation. If you invited someone, then within 90 days, events with their score affect yours: you gain/lose 20% of the invitee's points. This motivates inviting only those you trust.
Invitations from authoritative users significantly boost the starting reputation.

An unaccepted invitation can be canceled.

Attest (Attestation, identity and account verification)

Attestation is linking a profile to external accounts, wallets, social networks. It protects the network from fraud and counterfeiting.
Linking an account requires proof of ownership - for example, a tweet, signature, profile update. But I've only encountered authorization in different services.

One account can only belong to one Ethos profile (in case of conflict - you can return the account to yourself by proving your rights).

To confirm, you will need to pay Gas. There are no other payments.

False attestations can result in social penalties and/or financial penalties.

Writing real names is not necessary. Account control is all that matters.
But it should be considered that all connections are recorded in the blockchain: you cannot remove a mistake later (for example, if you authorized a personal private account in X).

Profile (Profile)

• He collects the entire history of reputation: reviews, sureties, certifications, main actions, and connections.

• Data is loaded from the blockchain.

• You can quickly assess the circle of communication, positive/negative events, assets.

Credibility Score (Reputation Score)

This is a single indicator that aggregates actions based on Ethos, the amounts of sureties, reviews, old and new connections, and the duration of sureties.

Many factors with different weights influence the value.

Starting score - 1200 ("neutral"), scale:

• 0-799 - unreliable

• 800-1199 - questionable

• 1200-1599 - neutral.
  In Discord I saw that up to 1399 is neutral.

• 1600-1999 - reliable

• 2000-2800 - exemplary

The calculation algorithm is transparent and can be changed by the Ethos community.

For different communities and applications, you can create your own formulas using Ethos on-chain data.

Each Ethos market is tied to an Ethos profile and Ethereum wallet. It reflects the reputation of a specific user, company, DAO, or even an autonomous entity.

Market launch is limited: initially, their number will be regulated by Ethos Labs to concentrate liquidity and work quality.

For each market, the Trust/Distrust ratio is displayed - an indicator of how much this entity is considered trustworthy. Mechanics: initially 50% trust / 50% distrust.
By buying trust votes, you increase the relative price of trust and the overall Trust Score. The price of distrust decreases and vice versa.

The market operates in real-time as an indicator of collective trust forever. It has no fixed resolution because reputation is always changing.

Implementation and liquidity

Ethos Reputation Markets are built on an AMM using the LMSR algorithm, like Polymarket. Liquidity for each market is fixed and fully algorithmically managed. This means that it doesn't matter when you joined the market - the impact on the price of your participation will be the same for both the first and last participants. Manual liquidity contribution is not required, so user exits do not cause market drawdowns or liquidity shortages. Even if a large number of distrust bets appear, the risk of a "short squeeze" is excluded here.

The contract provides for the possibility of updating the market logic: with the consent of the owner, you can change the algorithm to integrate new mechanics. These markets are neither binary options nor classic prediction markets - since there is no final resolution, and the structure is closer to a perpetual binary contract.

Differences from Ethos.Network

Ethos.network and Ethos.markets are independent but complementary products. For most users, a simple account in Ethos.network will be sufficient - you won't need to set up a market on Ethos.markets. This is due to a number of limitations: firstly, liquidity is limited, so it's impossible to create a separate market for each profile. Secondly, on Ethos.markets, reputation is expressed only through financial actions, without free social signals like reviews. Thirdly, here the risks and rewards are purely economic; "I don't want to lose money" is not always equivalent to "I don't trust", although in Ethos.network this nuance is much more important.

Principles

• Reputation is formed collectively.
  No one can unilaterally determine trust - it is a balance of personal assessments and cultural norms. Reputation assessment must change along with the collective opinion.

• Algorithms make assessment convenient.
  Ordinary users cannot delve into all the details, so a single clear numerical index is needed, like in credit bureaus or the SEC. But the assessment must be simple and transparent.

• Reputation is power.
  A high score opens up financial opportunities and influences decisions. There should be no centralized incentives to use the reputation system for profit or manipulation.

• Algorithms change participants' behavior.
  Users adapt their actions to the metrics for which they are rewarded. Each participant must be given the opportunity to influence the parameters of the reputation algorithm - after all, their opportunities and even income depend on it.

• Algorithms will always be used dishonestly in practice.
  Any mechanical scoring can be exploited, and centralized control will eventually fail. Therefore, only collective management and constant feedback will help balance the benefits and risks of abuse.

Comment: I don't know how much they listen to users. I've seen some negative opinions about updates that the project is becoming only for high-level.

Credibility Consensus

The Ethos reputation score is formed not by one team, but through collective agreement of the community.

During Early Access, Contributor XP systems are used for interacting with the rating - points for contribution and activity.

Each participant has their own ideas about which parameters are more important for reputation. At the early access stage, the goal is to develop a balance model through collective discussions and voting. The initial algorithm will inevitably overestimate some things and underestimate others. The early stage is needed to identify these inaccuracies and collectively correct the model before the mass launch.

Decision-making mechanics

Each participant will have activity points that can be spent on two types of voting each week:

1. Vote for one of the current editions of the reputation algorithm.

2. 2. Choose which of the new initiatives will be voted on next week.

Each initiative has three voting options: “for”, “against” or “abstain”. To make a decision, at least 51% support is needed.

After the voting is completed, the points for the next week are reset, and the result is applied in the new calculations. At an early stage, the Ethos team is manually implementing changes to quickly make improvements and test new parameters.

The Ethos team proposes three new initiatives for changing the reputation formula every week. Any participant can also submit their own. Their lifespan is three weeks, after which the proposals disappear.
Examples: “reduce the weight of the 'number of guarantors' parameter by 10%”, “replace the calculation of the defective ball from nlog(n) to n!”, “add accounting for 'trust through one' and set the weight according to the formula”.
The best proposal automatically goes to the vote in a week.

Rating 4 out of 5: self-confident (believe that Ethos will use everything, as understanding reputation is very important).
Yes - this is important, but there can be many options. And it's not a fact that Ethos will be the best due to their social factor (people will always try to overpower: example of failed social networks Steem).
Otherwise: well done for describing the reasons for creation, and why the project will have good demand: people need to understand the reputation of profiles.
It's also great that there is documentation for developers to integrate Ethos into their applications.
The functionality is interesting and unique.

Tokenomics: no utility and initial distribution. But there is a point program.

The truth about the details was written to me in Discord as follows:

"We value quality reviews and vouchers, as well as holding Ethos market assets. In addition, completing your daily tasks will help us with this. However, we will not go into details about how people can specifically earn XP."

According to Cryptorank, Ethos received 1.75 million dollars:

From dingaling, Zeneca, Bharat Krymo, 0xQuit, James Hall, and Sighduck.

Rating 2 out of 5: no tokenomics (utility and initial distribution). There is an XP program, but details are missing, although they said to participate in daily tasks, leave reviews and profile ratings, voucher, and perform other actions.
Investments of 1.75 million dollars from unknown persons.

There is a white paper page on contracts and property rights:

Smart contracts are managed by a multi-sig Safe.

0xB4a9bc5fb037eBd805a405F2b53cFadF4bCB4774 has the rights to own smart contracts and requires 3 out of 5 signatures to manage Ethos smart contracts

On the page, you will also find a table with the wallets of the multi-sig managers.

Ethos also uses admin approval and a separate multi-signature for operations not related to fund withdrawals. This is also protected by the Safe multi-sig and requires 2 out of 4 signatures to manage operations not related to fund withdrawals. The address of this Safe is 0x72F04d999E12D456FE7eE0Acaa345124A081018D.

There is also a list of admin wallets.

Finally, Ethos has a bank wallet where all protocol payments are sent. It is also protected by a 2 out of 3 multi-sig Safe. The address is 0x9C98258da66Ed095948CE4774e541C9FE978e946.

Next is a table of admins and a table with a list of Ethos contracts.

What is managed by multi-sigs is bad. Although as a temporary solution until there is a DAO, it's okay.
But I would advise Ethos to use not only the protocol token for management after development, but also the score of participants from 2000.

Updates 5 months ago.

It is important that there are links to smart contract code:

Above I showed a screenshot with an example.

This is important as it allows those interested to analyze the code.

It turns out that the code for ContractAddressManager, EthosAttestation, EthosDiscussion, EthosProfile, EthosReview, Reputation Market, EthosVote, EthosVouch, InteractionControl, SignatureVerifier, EthosSlash is published - that's cool!

The only thing is, I couldn't find the Ethos Markets contracts from the name.

There are also smart contract audits:

Ethos conducted three audit stages via Sherlock.xyz, covering different contract groups: Ethos 1 (Social Contracts) on November 3, 2024, Ethos 2 (Financial Contracts) on December 5, 2024, and Ethos 3 (Reputation Market) on December 30, 2024.

The page also lists recently implemented smart contract upgrades, such as the change to the "Vouch After Attestation" function (for both Vouch and Profile contracts) and the check for attempts to pop() from an empty array (Empty Array Check), with links to the corresponding transactions.
This is great as it speaks to Ethos' full transparency!

1. Social Contracts (November 2024)

Found 3 medium-level issues, no critical (High) ones.

All 3 Medium issues were fixed by the team (confirmed in the report).

In the end, there were no open vulnerabilities left.

2. Financial Contracts (December 2024)

Found 4 critical (High) and 3 medium (Medium).

Among the issues:

• Price manipulation on the curve (bonding curve manipulation).

• Errors in fee calculation (overpay fees, double counting when withdrawing funds).

• Exploit in the Vouch system (user can pay less fees).

All High and Medium were fixed in subsequent PRs (links to fixes are provided).

The report states that there are no remaining unfixed issues.

3. Reputation Market (December 2024)

Found 0 critical, 2 medium (Medium):

• Issue with high gas cost when calculating vote purchases (may cause OOG).

• Rounding error in the function _calcCost that prevented selling the last votes.

Both Medium issues were fixed by the team (links to PRs are available).

As stated in the report - there are no unresolved issues left.

The link to it is provided in the white paper:

The Ethos bug bounty program is designed to reward researchers who act ethically and help improve the security of the platform. The main principle of the program is that what matters most is not formal rules, but whether the researcher acted honestly and without harm to users or infrastructure.

Researchers must comply with ethical and legal standards. Actions that go beyond testing and can harm the system or users are not allowed. Threatening, blackmailing, disclosing personal data of employees or users, as well as interacting with them outside official channels for reporting is prohibited. Rewards and their amounts are determined by the Ethos team or partners managing the program.

Testing is only conducted in specially designated environments. Production services (e.g., app.ethos.network and api.ethos.network) cannot be tested, only the use of test environments (testnet.ethos.network and api.testnet.ethos.network) is allowed. DoS attacks are prohibited. Testing on third-party services such as Twitter/X, Cloudflare, Intercom, Alchemy, and Moralis is not allowed. If your checks can create increased load, you need to notify the team in advance. Testing smart contracts on the public mainnet is also prohibited - for this, local forks or test networks should be used, and in case of necessity, coordinate checks with the Ethos team.

In the event of a vulnerability discovery, the researcher must adhere to responsible disclosure: information cannot be published before it is fixed, discussed in public channels, or used for personal gain. You cannot independently try to save funds without written permission. Submissions are only accepted through official channels - for web services at support@ethos.network, and for smart contracts through the Sherlock platform. The report should describe the vulnerability, demonstrate how to reproduce it or provide a working Proof of Concept, assess the impact on users and the platform, and format everything as one bug per report. The language of reports is English.

Rewards depend on the severity of the issues found. For web services, maximum payouts are:

• for critical vulnerabilities - up to $1000,

• for high - up to $500,

• for medium - up to $50.

• Low or informational errors can earn a positive review from the Ethos team.

Payouts are possible in fiat or USDC/USDT. For smart contracts, rewards and all disputes are fully regulated by Sherlock.

Critical findings include things like obtaining private signing keys or the ability to steal user funds. High severity issues include, for example, redirecting users to incorrect addresses, impersonating social accounts, or coercing others to take actions within the system. Medium severity vulnerabilities allow for obtaining bonuses for others' social accounts or forcing others' referral links. Low severity errors only affect internal metrics like XP or score. For smart contracts, the criteria are strictly defined by Sherlock.

Ethos also applies a "Safe Harbor" policy. This means that ethical researchers (whitehats) who act in the interest of protecting the system will not face legal consequences. To receive this protection, you must notify Ethos of your actions via support@ethos.network and receive written confirmation. In the event of funds being saved, at least 90% must be returned within 24 hours to the specified wallet address.

You described everything in detail - that's great!
The only thing is, the amount for the web service is very small, and the rewards for smart contract vulnerabilities are not described on the page itself.

I went to the page in Sherlock, and here's what it says:

• Critical vulnerabilities - $150,000 (no more than 10% of funds at risk at the time of reporting)

• High - $50,000

• Medium - $10,000

• Low - $1,000

• Informational - review/acknowledgment without monetary reward

The main codebase is not open, but there is Github:

12 repositories. Let's consider the main ones.

trust-ethos/api-docs:

API documentation for developers.

The last commit was last week:

There are 45 of them:

14, 8 August, 23, 10, 7 July and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-twitter-agent:

Twitter agent ethosAgent.

Also, the latest update last week:

Total 271 commits:

August 13, 19, 18, 17 and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-discord:

Discord bot for displaying Ethos scores.

Last update two weeks ago:

Total - 71 commits:

August 8, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 7, 4 June and earlier.

trust-ethos/zora-ethos-sniper:

Automated bot for trading creator coins for the Zora protocol on the Base network.

The last commit was 3 weeks ago:

There are 7 of them:

July 29 and 28.

trust-ethos/ethos-invite-graph:

Web application for visualizing invitation networks on the Ethos platform using interactive charts and network analysis.

Last updated last month:

There are 25 of them:

July 22 and 21.

trust-ethos/ethos-anonymous-reviews:

Anonymous reviews in Ethos.

Last updated last month:

Total - 128 commits:

17, 7, 6 July, 29, 26, 25, 19, 18, 17 June and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-farcaster:

Last update last month:

Farcaster Demo for Ethos. As I understand, this is about a Farcaster application.

Total 9 commits:

9 and 7 July.

trust-ethos/ethos-spiderchart:

A web application that analyzes Ethos profiles and visualizes how well users match specified categories using AI analysis of their reviews and confirmations, displayed as an interactive spider graph.

The last commit was last month:

There are 35 of them:

July 8, 3, and 2, .

trust-ethos/ethos-whitepaper:

White paper for Ethos protocol and Ethos network.

Last updated last month:

Total 22 commits:

July 3, June 2, and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-r4r:

A complex web application for analyzing "Review 4 review" patterns and building reputation on the Ethos platform. Built using Deno Fresh, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.

Last updated 2 months ago:

Total 27 commits:

June 27, 25, and 23.

Rating 4 out of 5: code is partially open (except for core functionality), but there are various services. Smart contracts are also verified in Basescan, allowing you to read their code.
There are audits and a bug bounty program with maximum rewards of $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts and $1,000 for errors in the web service.

Project website https://app.ethos.network/:

To register, you will need an invite. Look for them from acquaintances using Ethos, on social media (unlikely, as inviting the wrong people can lower your score) or in chats you are part of.

I already have an account - I click on the button next to "Leaderboard" in the menu:

Here we see various settings and links, including Login. But before logging in, let's see what else is here.

You can go to the Directory to view all Ethos profiles with filtering:

"Get the Chrome extension" will allow you to install an extension to view Ethos score profiles:

I opened it, but didn't find any text labels (I'll tell the founder about this later):

There might be a graphical representation of the score.

I'll show Ethos Markets as a separate practice section.

So, we click "Login":

Here you can choose a wallet, but I choose "Log in with a social account":

I chose Telegram and authorized:

You will be asked for an invite, and after specifying it, the same thing as mine will open immediately.

Let's start by going to Settings:

Here I recommend connecting your EVM wallet (mine is already connected) and enabling the smart wallet (I'm talking about Smart wallet).

On the "Social connections" tab, do the same with the social networks listed here:

As you can see, I already have all available ones connected.

This is important to do, as it can increase your score.

On the "Notifications" tab, we just enable push notifications:

On your profile page (go from the account menu to "My profile"):

By clicking the "Suggest for category?" button, you can apply for a category in the leaderboard:

Connect X, select a category:

And fill in the other fields. Send and wait.

My acquaintance applied for "Alpha callers" and ended up in the top 20 for this category.

Let's go back to the profile.

Here we can also see what they say about us and what activity we have done in Ethos.

On the "Given50" tab, we can view outgoing actions:

Here, for example, is one of the reviews:

Awesome that the Ethos founder replied to it!

And I'm replying to the comment, adding something else:

Since my Score is < 1300, I need to connect a wallet to send a transaction:

"Connect wallet":

And select / connect.

After that, just "Reply" and confirm (requires Gas in Base).

Here's what was added:

On the "My score" page, you can see all the information about your score:

On the "Invite · 0" page, it will show you your invites and who you invited:

By the button "Invite · 0" I see that there are no invites yet.

Vouches

Go to the link "Vouches · 0.01e" (you will have 0E) in the account menu (where logout is):

Select the person you want to support with a vouch. You need to have at least 0.01 ETH in Base.

You can scroll using the "left" and "right" buttons.

Here is my second page:

Choose who you trust. It's great if you know that they will also leave you a voucher.

For example, this one:

Specify the title, description, amount, and confirm.

Also, at the bottom of the voucher page, you can add or withdraw a voucher from existing ones. But you should understand that if you do this before the end of the season, points (XP) will be deducted.

Adding:

Withdrawal:

You can simply take the money without affecting the user's score or take it with a negative review. The second option is a good idea if you supported someone, but the person did something wrong.

I, of course, will leave the voucher for now.

An alternative way to make a voucher is through the user's profile:

You can get a link from a friend, find in Directory or social networks.

Here we are looking for the "Vouch" button:

We write the title, text and enter the amount:

"Publish" and confirm in the wallet.

Done. We can share the voucher in X:

Or go to the voucher.

But I'll just close it.

I'll be happy to receive vouchers and reviews on my profile: https://app.ethos.network/profile/x/Denis_skripnik

There is a Review button next to the voucher button.

Let me show you the process of leaving a review on another account.

Log in to any user's profile:

"Review":

And write a title with a description. The more detailed, the better.

"Publish" and wait:

Done:

Can be shared in X:

That's what I did.

Slash looks like this:

For now, only trust score reduction is available, financial is not.

By the way, launching slash is only possible with a score > 1600. So I still wouldn't be able to publish.

But the main thing is I showed you.

And yes, as you saw I think in the profile, there are the same sections with user activity and what people are talking about.

They are on the page https://app.ethos.network/listings:

As I understand it, this is where projects are displayed that you can vote on.

Each Ethos user gets the opportunity to vote once every 10 days, either bullish or bearish, for a particular project.

For example, I choose "Espresso ☕️":

Here is the project information + the ability to vote. I click "Vote bullish":

By the way, note that 20% voted for the project (bullish sentiment), against (bearish) - 80%.

In the window that appears, I click "Vote (1)" - done:

Also, there are tabs below with info about the team, sentiment, top reviews, and comments.

"Sentiment":

In general, all the data is displayed on the page, and when activating the tabs, we move to the right place. Although visually it may not be so - I don't know.

Here are some more reviews, for example:

And comments:

At the top of the page, it already says that I have 0 bull votes and 1 bear vote.

I advise you to go and vote.

Here's an example of a bear vote. I selected the number of votes that I don't like the product and now there is confirmation:

I'm not showing you the settings, as they are at the bottom of the page, and I'm not sure if it will be visually visible.

So, I voted:

You can't add yourself to the listing - this only applies to projects.

Go to the corresponding page:

By default, the main top is displayed.

You can change the tab to "Ethos contributors":

Here is the top of Ethos contributors. You will be in first place, but on this screenshot - it's me.

It's important that you can filter accounts.

On the "Most credible" tab:

At the top, you can filter by category.

For example, here are the AI Agents:

Least credible or "Least credible":

First place here is Eros Agent, who tried to use AI to identify low-quality reviews and AI-generated content, unfairly damaging reputations... As a result, he was downvoted to a score of 634!
Pleasant, since he also accused me...

Go to the same-named link in the account menu or via the URL https://app.ethos.network/contribute:

Here we see the statistics of contributions and, if you haven't started today's tasks yet, you can start them.

Also, the start button is on every page at the top with the "Daily tasks•" button.

I start via "Start":

The first task is about whether there is trust in the account.

I follow the link with "X" and the login.

I look at the description, registration date, and posts.

And I choose. The options are: "No", "Neutral", "I'm not sure" and "Yes".

I set it to neutral:

If your score is less than 1300, you will get a wallet with transaction confirmation.

By clicking "Leave a review" you can leave a review. I recommend that if you know the X account you met well, write it.

I press "Skip & continue".

The next task appears:

Read the review. If it's normal, rate it. If the account seems familiar and belongs to another, check it.

I thought the review about the person was left by the Saga project account. But it turned out not to be. So I put "Upvote".

And further almost all tasks with rating reviews: "Downvote", "Neutral", "I'm not sure", "Upvote".

And the last task is to rate whether you consider the score of this profile high or low:

Also, I go to X and rate.

I said it was too low because he is the founder of Offchain labs.

And left a review:

Done (tasks completed):

Next time I will rate tomorrow.

I've been doing this for 20 days - it's not stressful.
On the contrary, it's quite interesting to explore Ethos this way.

On the main Ethos page after logging in, you'll find a feed:

You can view reviews of people you've rated.

There's also an option to filter by other parameters:

hot, by comments, by votes, etc.

For example, Hot:

You can flexibly choose what you want to read.

This is a separate site https://ethos.markets/:

Also click the button next to "Create your market":

"Login":

Click on "Twitter" - this is the only way, we authorize.

Done (you should have X connected to Ethos):

In the account menu, open Settings:

Here we can top up or withdraw funds from the wallet, as well as export.

"Fund":

And choose the method. In the case of a wallet, you will need to connect it, enter the amount in ETH and replenish from Base:

Minimum 0.01 ETH.

I will not replenish now.

"Receive funds" is just a QR code with the address.

"Withdraw" is a standard form with amount and wallet address input:

By clicking the link "My profile", we will go to the Ethos Markets profile:

The volume, balance, deposit and withdrawal, as well as open positions (I have one) are visible.

We can click on "Sell". We go to the profile page:

By clicking "Sell 1 vote", I can sell. But I won't do it, as I will only get 0.006 - this is a loss.

On the "Buy" tab, we can buy:

As you can see, the price of 0.007 is the same as I bought. So if you sell immediately or there is no volatility, you can lose 0.001 ETH.

Before the form, you can assess: trust or distrust the profile. Depending on this, it will affect the Trust Score.
As you can see, Ethos network has 65% trust, 35% distrust

Commission is 2%.

Let's go to the main page or via the Markets link:

Sorted by volume over 24 hours:

For example, the founder of Serpin Taxt has a volume of 150.93K $. You can use buttons to switch to buying trust / distrust.

When you go to the profile, you will see the same purchase form that I have already shown you:

Let's go to the "Leaderboard" link:

By default, the top by profit, but we can change it to the rating by Contributor XP:

You can filter the data. By default, the top for all time.

Click on the corresponding button:

Asks to switch to Ethos network to create.

There in the account menu, click "Create market":

Select the liquidity curve algorithm and click "Create market".
Requires 0.1 ETH. Since I don't have it yet, I won't continue.
But I think you understand that there is wallet confirmation and everything.

Also stated that I will earn 1% of all purchase transactions.

Rating 5 out of 5: convenient, understandable interfaces. There are nuances about availability, but hopefully they will fix them. In any case, the founder supported my information about the shortcomings in this regard.
The functionality is interesting. There is an opportunity to leave reviews, support with vouchers, slash, etc. There are interesting daily tasks for rating reviews and profiles.
In Ethos Markets, you can trade reputation, which is also interesting.

19 out of 25:

• Team: 4 out of 5: information about the team on LinkedIn is available, but there is no link to the company profile (had to search myself). Discord is active, the question was answered quickly. Only in response to the question about the team, they provided a link to the article without indicating the participants' profiles. But overall, the answer was correct.
  X profile is also active, and he has a good moni score.
  Minus one point for the answer regarding the team.

• Concept: 4 out of 5: self-confident (believe that everyone will use Ethos because understanding reputation is very important).
  Yes - it is important, but there can be many options. And it's not a fact that Ethos will be the best due to its social factor (people will always try to abuse: example of failed social networks Steem).
  Otherwise: well done that they described the reasons for creation and why the project will have good demand: people need to understand the reputation of profiles.
  Also great that there is documentation for developers for the possibility of integrating Ethos into their applications.
  The functionality is interesting and unique.

• Coin: 2 out of 5: no tokenomics (utility and initial distribution). There is an XP program, but details are missing, although they said to participate in daily tasks, leave reviews and profile ratings, vauch, and perform other actions.
  Investments of $1.75 million from unknown individuals.

• Code: 4 out of 5: code is partially open (except for the main functionality), but there are various services. Smart contracts are also verified in Basescan, allowing you to read their code.
  There are audits and a bug bounty program with maximum rewards of $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts and $1,000 for errors in the web service.

• Practice: 5 out of 5: convenient, understandable interfaces. There are nuances about accessibility, but I hope they will fix them. In any case, the founder supported my information about the shortcomings in this regard.
  The functionality is interesting. There is an opportunity to leave reviews, support with vauches, slash, and so on. There are interesting daily tasks for rating reviews and profiles.
  In Ethos Markets, you can trade reputation, which is also interesting.

Subscribe to https://t.me/blind_dev - there are new reviews, news about my developments and other posts.

I will also be glad to distribute the article!

Here you rate profiles, leave reviews. Participants can like them, affecting your review.
There are also Vouchers: support with an amount in ETH (from 0.01 ETH). The higher your score, the more you have supported, the more influence on the score of the supported.
There is also slashing: an announcement of a desire to significantly lower the score of some account.
By completing daily streaks with tasks to rate profiles and reviews, you get XP.
From time to time, the scoring algorithm may change.
Such mechanics create, in the opinion of the founders, an excellent system for scoring profiles.
Let's see how good the project is.

There is an article about the founders:

Trevor Thompson - CEO:

His experience is mainly related to products: for over 12 years, he held various positions related to them, from creating predictive models in R for financial teams to the first hired engineer in a Y-combinator startup that tried to create an independent chat product for Slack, Teams, and Hipchat.
Trevor joined Atlassian in 2017 as a product specialist, responsible for the Hipchat ecosystem and developer engagement. After Hipchat closed, he helped expand Atlassian's integration reach from about 30,000 users to over 3 million, attracting about 150,000 new Jira licenses through various growth methods related to integrations. Then he met Ben and joined the new products team to help bring the Beacon idea to life.
He has been in crypto since 2011, but after seeing the drop from $30, he left. Returned only in 2017. And in 2020, he created the Pokestonks community for Pokemon fans for $35 a month (now free, but active). Realizing what worked, he created NiftyStonks for NFT trading, and in 2022 with co-founders created the liquid trading fund 0x5f Capital.
Also worked at Friend.tech.

Ben Walter:

A security specialist protecting against hacks since 2006.

His career combines academia, professional institutions, and Silicon Valley startups. Ben's enthusiasm is partly due to his early experience at FINRA, where he identified fake trading. FINRA is an organization with nearly a century of history, created by respected traders who tried to stand out in the then chaotic market.
Since then, he has helped uncover collusion on Pokerstars, fight bots in MMOs, and detect insurance fraud. He has always been aware of academic achievements: graduated from Cornell University, wrote a book on web security published by O'Reilly, and taught at Berkeley and Tufts University.
In 2015, he became the second employee hired at Stackrox, a security startup. In 2017, Stackrox was funded by Sequoia and then acquired by Red Hat for a sum in the nine-digit range.
At that time, he gave up on ETH due to the DAO hack, concluding that these immutable smart contracts were not secure enough to protect in complex conditions. Interested in privacy and viewing cryptocurrency as a currency rather than an asset, he bought Monero.
This itch to solve problems with new products did not disappear even after joining Atlassian. He presented the Beacon idea (another security product) to the internal accelerator. Together with Trevor, they formed a team, product, and concept.

Minus - no links to profiles...

Found through search Ethos profile on LinkedIn:

68 followers.

Company people:

Trevor Thompson:

503 followers. Shares third-party content in posts.

Work experience:

• Cofounder & CEO at Ethos since January 2024

• Managing Partner at PNG Capital, LLC since April 2022

• Director of Product, Fintech at Housecall Pro from May 2023 to January 2024

• At Atlassian: Lead Product Manager, Integrations from April 2018 to March 2022, Lead Product Manager, Beacon from March 2022 to May 2023

• Technical Product Manager at Mio from December 2016 to April 2018

• Product Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from October 2013 to December 2016

Studied at Baylor University: Bachelor's degree, Computer Science.

Good experience in leading and managing products.

Vitalii Saienko:

1,014 followers

Content is also mostly shared.

Work experience:

• Founding Engineer at Ethos since May 2024 (remote work)

• At SoftServe: Trainee Software Engineering from April to July 2017, Junior Software Engineer from August 2017 to August 2018, Middle Software Engineer from September 2018 to July 2020, Senior Software Engineer from August 2020 to October 2022, Tech Lead Software Engineer from November 2022 to April 2024

• WEB Developer at LAB01 from March 2016 to March 2017

Education:

• Free Code Camp: Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering from 2016 to 2017

• Zhytomyr National Agroecological University: Master of management, Management and Economics from 2010 to 2016

Professional in engineering, software creation.

Seth Gholson:

549 followers. Last post 11 months ago about joining Ethos. It received 119 reactions, 21 comments, and 2 reposts.

Work experience:

• Founding Engineer at Ethos since September 2024

• At Atlassian: Senior Android Developer from May 2014 to October 2015, Android Team Lead from October 2015 to January 2018, Software Engineering Manager - Stride from January to August 2018, Android Engineering Manager, Trello from August 2018 to June 2019, Software Engineering Manager, Product Integrations from June 2019 to March 2021, Senior Software Engineer, Halp (Dev Lead) from March 2021 to July 2024, Senior Software Engineer - Central AI from July to August 2024.

• Senior Software Developer at PioneerRx Pharmacy Software from October 2019 to June 2014

Education:

• LSU Shreveport: Master of Science, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology from 2009 to 2011

• Louisiana Tech University: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), General Studies from 2001 to 2005

Also a professional: held various engineering positions.

Miro Kirov:

1,809 followers. Last post 3 years ago with 3 reactions.

Work Experience:

• Senior UX Designer at Ethos since May 2024

• Senior UX Designer at theom from January 2024 to December 2024

• Senior UX Designer at Adobe from January 2022 to December 2023

• Lead UX Designer at Fleetpal from January 2021 to December 2021

• Senior UX Designer at Amazon from January 2020 to December 2020

• Senior UX Designer at Atlassian from January 2018 to December 2019

• Lead UX Designer at SoftServe from January 2016 to December 2017

• Senior UX Designer at Despark from January to December 2015

• Total 10.

Education:

• New Bulgarian University: Master of Arts (MA), Graphic Design from 2013 to 2015

• Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski: Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics from 2008 to 2013

Professional. Gradually grew in design experience.

Benjamin Walther:

757 followers. Last post was 11 months ago with 119 reactions, 21 comments, 2 reposts. About a new engineer joining the Ethos team.

Work experience:

• Cofounder & CTO at Ethos Labs since January 2024

• Senior Security Architect at Atlassian from November 2017 to January 2024

• Member of Technical Staff at StackRox from April 2015 to September 2017

• Senior Security Engineer at Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies from October 2013 to April 2015

• Information Security - Application Risk Consultant at Tufts University from May 2011 to August 2013

• And others (total 9)

Studied at Cornell University: B.S., Information Science from 2002 to 2006

Also a professional in security and technologies.

Discord:

The chat is active. They answered my questions. Although I asked for a command with links, they provided an article without them. But I found them myself in the search later.

With the /verify_ethos command, you can add a role with a score after authorizing on the site and connecting Discord.

In the announcements, the last post today:

They periodically post their content in the appropriate section (there is also one today):

In general, the DS is active.

X @ethos_network:

57.3K subscribers, 1,788 posts.

The last post was on August 19 (yesterday) about slashing with 19 replies, 6 reposts, 85 likes, and 3,614 views.
The previous one was also on August 19 about an update in Ethos with 62 replies, 24 reposts, 286 likes, and 11,461 views.

Analysis by Moni:

Moni Score
Level: 6. High
9238
+2 per day.

11.15 thousand mentions, 1.14K smart mentions.

Projects: @decentraland, @SneakyninjaNFTs, @underground, @MingoAirdrop, @Altcoinist_com, @VelocimeterDEX, @mywebacy, @Whitelist1Media, @frans6cur.

VC: @ManifoldTrading, @Alphaverse_NFT.

Analysis by Tweetscout:

Bot level 1 (Excellent), Score 1394 (level 4 - Significant).

Subscribed projects: @osf_rekt, @anonchained, @moonpay, @decentraland, @DegenerateNews, @0n1Force, @SuperchiefNFT, @S4mmyEth and others.

Venture capital: @loomdart, eGirl Capital 仙女資本, @bryanbrinkman, Metaversal, @mrjasonchoi, The Spartan Group and others.

Rating 4 out of 5: team information is available on LinkedIn, but there is no link to the company profile (had to search for it myself). Discord is active, questions were answered quickly. However, in response to a question about the team, they provided a link to an article without specifying the team members' profiles. But overall, the response was appropriate.
X profile is also active, and he has a good moni score.
Minus one point for the response regarding the team.

They have developer documentation, but we won't consider it as there is Whitepaper:

As they write, Ethos measures reliability and reputation in the network.

Cryptocurrency lacks an easily readable and understandable reputation, and Ethos fills this gap. Ethos provides a trust rating with a support profile similar to a credit report, but with open protocols and on-chain records. Ethos incentivizes ethical behavior through social Proof of Stake - a decentralized validation mechanism based on consensus and based on human values, judgments, and actions.

They also propose to modify the Ethereum consensus to account for social factors based on Ethos, but I think it's a crazy idea at this stage: the rating definition is not perfect.

It's important that it's described why the project is relevant: there are too many scammers and dishonest people, and it's hard to identify them.

The Ethos protocol provides the following set of interconnected mechanisms. Together, they form a common platform, incentivize ethical behavior, and form a trust rating.

• Reviews. Ethos provides a standard interface for ratings and comments. Reviews allow you to develop a reputation without being limited to financial investments.

• Vouches. Participants can vouch for others with their ETH (or, in the future, other assets). This is the highest indicator of trust in Ethos, closest to traditional staking in Proof of Stake systems.

• Slash. If a validator (profile evaluator) acts dishonestly, anyone who confirms it can stake ETH to propose a reduction. If the 'validators' confirm unethical actions, the reduction will take a percentage of the staked ETH from the offender's amount fixed in the Ethos contract. Rejected reductions will punish the proposer by redistributing their staked ETH.

• Invitations. To participate in Ethos, users must be invited through an existing Ethos profile. Invitations are not automatically added to the user's profile and are inherently limited. Invitations create trust relationships between inviters and invitees, preventing the invitation of dishonest users or themselves. This helps Ethos maintain a network resistant to sybil attacks.

• Attestation. To reflect the authority, reputation, and influence of other sources, you can verify other social media profiles to consolidate them into a single Ethos profile.

• Credibility Assessment (Credibility Score). By interpreting social interactions generated by the mechanisms described above, Ethos generates a single numerical credibility metric.

• Ethos Profile. The profile displays the trust assessment and provides supporting information. From the profile, you can learn about allies and enemies, praises and missteps, restrained and broken promises, etc.

• Impact. Since authority is too powerful to be left in the hands of centralized influence, Ethos Labs will transfer control over the scoring algorithm to participants.

I like it.

The project founders aim to link the profile to reputation without sacrificing anonymity. This is important because many people do not care about their long-term reputation.
But in the current version, Ethos can provide false information, as people can have biased attitudes towards someone. But how to solve this, I don't know.

The Ethos team believes:

1. Cryptocurrencies and web3 are going through a "Wild West" period. Trust levels are low. Fraud is thriving. Reputation is easily sacrificed for profit.

2. Currently, we are trying to assess reliability based on imperfect metrics such as Twitter followers, the number of funds in a wallet, and transaction history. Compare this to TradFi with its credit reports and Consumer Reports; or web2 with TrustPilot, Yelp, etc.

3. If you could check the trust profile of the people you interact with, you could avoid costly mistakes and determine, and even increase, the level of trust of each individual you meet online.

These answers form a potential solution as follows:

A brief profile should reflect the most significant events from the growing history of online behavior. To gather this information, participants receive incentives to encourage them to leave reviews and confirm positive actions of others. Informant accusations are checked by a trusted community. In Ethos, all this is briefly reflected in the credibility rating.

It is important that to ensure long-term fairness, Ethos intends to avoid centralized ownership. Decentralized management is planned as part of the protocol and corporate structure. The creators did not attract venture capital to limit excessive control over token distribution. For the first business angels, there were strict limits on the maximum issue size.

We all thrive when we can reliably exchange goods and services. Unethical behavior drains markets, increasing risk, reducing participation, and ultimately making us all poorer.

Thanks to Ethos, opportunities will open up for those with a long history of ethical behavior. For scammers, fraudsters, and unethical people, it will be expensive, risky, and long to fake these signals. Ethos increases investments in ethical and increases costs for unethical.

In the mission, I encounter the phrase below for the second time, and it bothers me (presumptuous to think that they will be so in demand):

"We assume that in the not too distant future, no one will take you seriously until you have an Ethos profile."

Overall, the mission is as follows:

"Creating and maintaining a reputation on the blockchain should be so simple and ordinary that there will be no excuses for it. When it becomes so automatic that we don't even think about it, the cryptocurrency market will reach a stage of development where fraud becomes rare and obvious."

Ethos Goals

1. Make financial incentives based on reputation, not fraud.
   Expected result: projects, coins and funds using Ethos collect above-average investment volumes.

2. Raise the bar for the concept of "trust" in web3.
   Expected result: the percentage of leading crypto influencers supporting Ethos profiles grows.

3. Foster the growth of the crypto industry by making it safer for new users.
   Expected result: the share of new crypto market participants connecting to Ethos increases.

4. Save the crypto industry billions of dollars by preventing scams and rug-pull projects.
   Expected result: Ethos participants caught in fraud permanently lose their reputation.

5. Lead by example, demonstrating the power of ethical behavior.
   Expected result: a gradual transition of management - from centralized control, through intermediate stages (point system), to fully decentralized management.

Let's start with reviews. They shape the user's reputation.
You can rate negatively, neutrally, and positively - this is a format understandable to everyone. And thanks to the text, readers can get quality information about the user.

You can only leave a review with a valid Ethos profile (by invitation), which helps reduce sybil attacks. Also, the fact that reviews are not anonymous (the author is visible) reduces spam and attacks by fake accounts.

Influence on Reputation

• The opinion of a user with a high reputation has a stronger influence on the final reputation.

• If a person only gives positive (or only negative) reviews, their weight decreases.

• The age and number of reviews are taken into account.

• Reviews from mutual friends/guarantors have a greater effect.

• All rules are transparent, documented through the Credibility Score.

Quick and free reviews provide an early signal; not always accurate, but can warn about a problem. For example, about a new scammer.
It's an easy way to report someone without risking money right away.

The thing about reviews is that they allow you to earn a reputation even without capital and connections.

It's also cool that through the API, applications can add tags and options for their market. For example, a web3 freelance exchange can offer adding reviews with tags of the performer or customer through the Ethos API (this is my idea, not from the white paper).

In the future, there will be an option for anonymous reviews with ZK-proofs (example: "a user with high reputation negatively rated Bob").

Let's move on to vouchers. This is an expression of high trust because you put ETH (in the future - other assets) in support of some Ethos profile (address or social proof). In case of slashing, you can lose the amount.
Only the guarantor manages the stake, the user cannot withdraw or redirect them.

Accordingly, the amount of staked ETH shows the strength of trust.

It is important that one powerful guarantor is often more valuable than many weak ones, and mutual guaranteeing (“3,3”) gives both parties significant reputation bonuses. At the same time, if someone cancels a voucher - a strong signal of distrust.
When breaking mutual guarantee, the recipient can mark "unhealthy exit" within 24 hours - signaling a problem to the community.

Vouchers affect the Ethos reputation score (Credibility Score) gradually (currently - over 6 months).

Slashing procedure (penalty): someone accuses, validators vote, if proven, the penalty is taken from the accused's stake (up to 10%), but you can take the score instead of money.
Repeated slashing is only possible after 72 hours.

They write that you can fully withdraw your stake at any time, but in one chat I read about blocking the stake for 6 months (until the end of the season). I haven't checked it myself yet. However, you cannot change the size of the guarantee without a full withdrawal.

Philosophy of guarantee and penalties

• Long-term mutual guarantee is the main indicator of trust.

• Fines for errors should be proportional, but intentional deception should be strictly punished.

• If reputation is destroyed - all guarantors withdraw their assets - this is a social collapse. But you can always start a new anonymous profile.

About Invite (Invitation)

To create an Ethos profile, you need an invitation. If you invited someone, then within 90 days, events with their score affect yours: you gain/lose 20% of the invitee's points. This motivates inviting only those you trust.
Invitations from authoritative users significantly boost the starting reputation.

An unaccepted invitation can be canceled.

Attest (Attestation, identity and account verification)

Attestation is linking a profile to external accounts, wallets, social networks. It protects the network from fraud and counterfeiting.
Linking an account requires proof of ownership - for example, a tweet, signature, profile update. But I've only encountered authorization in different services.

One account can only belong to one Ethos profile (in case of conflict - you can return the account to yourself by proving your rights).

To confirm, you will need to pay Gas. There are no other payments.

False attestations can result in social penalties and/or financial penalties.

Writing real names is not necessary. Account control is all that matters.
But it should be considered that all connections are recorded in the blockchain: you cannot remove a mistake later (for example, if you authorized a personal private account in X).

Profile (Profile)

• He collects the entire history of reputation: reviews, sureties, certifications, main actions, and connections.

• Data is loaded from the blockchain.

• You can quickly assess the circle of communication, positive/negative events, assets.

Credibility Score (Reputation Score)

This is a single indicator that aggregates actions based on Ethos, the amounts of sureties, reviews, old and new connections, and the duration of sureties.

Many factors with different weights influence the value.

Starting score - 1200 ("neutral"), scale:

• 0-799 - unreliable

• 800-1199 - questionable

• 1200-1599 - neutral.
  In Discord I saw that up to 1399 is neutral.

• 1600-1999 - reliable

• 2000-2800 - exemplary

The calculation algorithm is transparent and can be changed by the Ethos community.

For different communities and applications, you can create your own formulas using Ethos on-chain data.

Each Ethos market is tied to an Ethos profile and Ethereum wallet. It reflects the reputation of a specific user, company, DAO, or even an autonomous entity.

Market launch is limited: initially, their number will be regulated by Ethos Labs to concentrate liquidity and work quality.

For each market, the Trust/Distrust ratio is displayed - an indicator of how much this entity is considered trustworthy. Mechanics: initially 50% trust / 50% distrust.
By buying trust votes, you increase the relative price of trust and the overall Trust Score. The price of distrust decreases and vice versa.

The market operates in real-time as an indicator of collective trust forever. It has no fixed resolution because reputation is always changing.

Implementation and liquidity

Ethos Reputation Markets are built on an AMM using the LMSR algorithm, like Polymarket. Liquidity for each market is fixed and fully algorithmically managed. This means that it doesn't matter when you joined the market - the impact on the price of your participation will be the same for both the first and last participants. Manual liquidity contribution is not required, so user exits do not cause market drawdowns or liquidity shortages. Even if a large number of distrust bets appear, the risk of a "short squeeze" is excluded here.

The contract provides for the possibility of updating the market logic: with the consent of the owner, you can change the algorithm to integrate new mechanics. These markets are neither binary options nor classic prediction markets - since there is no final resolution, and the structure is closer to a perpetual binary contract.

Differences from Ethos.Network

Ethos.network and Ethos.markets are independent but complementary products. For most users, a simple account in Ethos.network will be sufficient - you won't need to set up a market on Ethos.markets. This is due to a number of limitations: firstly, liquidity is limited, so it's impossible to create a separate market for each profile. Secondly, on Ethos.markets, reputation is expressed only through financial actions, without free social signals like reviews. Thirdly, here the risks and rewards are purely economic; "I don't want to lose money" is not always equivalent to "I don't trust", although in Ethos.network this nuance is much more important.

Principles

• Reputation is formed collectively.
  No one can unilaterally determine trust - it is a balance of personal assessments and cultural norms. Reputation assessment must change along with the collective opinion.

• Algorithms make assessment convenient.
  Ordinary users cannot delve into all the details, so a single clear numerical index is needed, like in credit bureaus or the SEC. But the assessment must be simple and transparent.

• Reputation is power.
  A high score opens up financial opportunities and influences decisions. There should be no centralized incentives to use the reputation system for profit or manipulation.

• Algorithms change participants' behavior.
  Users adapt their actions to the metrics for which they are rewarded. Each participant must be given the opportunity to influence the parameters of the reputation algorithm - after all, their opportunities and even income depend on it.

• Algorithms will always be used dishonestly in practice.
  Any mechanical scoring can be exploited, and centralized control will eventually fail. Therefore, only collective management and constant feedback will help balance the benefits and risks of abuse.

Comment: I don't know how much they listen to users. I've seen some negative opinions about updates that the project is becoming only for high-level.

Credibility Consensus

The Ethos reputation score is formed not by one team, but through collective agreement of the community.

During Early Access, Contributor XP systems are used for interacting with the rating - points for contribution and activity.

Each participant has their own ideas about which parameters are more important for reputation. At the early access stage, the goal is to develop a balance model through collective discussions and voting. The initial algorithm will inevitably overestimate some things and underestimate others. The early stage is needed to identify these inaccuracies and collectively correct the model before the mass launch.

Decision-making mechanics

Each participant will have activity points that can be spent on two types of voting each week:

1. Vote for one of the current editions of the reputation algorithm.

2. 2. Choose which of the new initiatives will be voted on next week.

Each initiative has three voting options: “for”, “against” or “abstain”. To make a decision, at least 51% support is needed.

After the voting is completed, the points for the next week are reset, and the result is applied in the new calculations. At an early stage, the Ethos team is manually implementing changes to quickly make improvements and test new parameters.

The Ethos team proposes three new initiatives for changing the reputation formula every week. Any participant can also submit their own. Their lifespan is three weeks, after which the proposals disappear.
Examples: “reduce the weight of the 'number of guarantors' parameter by 10%”, “replace the calculation of the defective ball from nlog(n) to n!”, “add accounting for 'trust through one' and set the weight according to the formula”.
The best proposal automatically goes to the vote in a week.

Rating 4 out of 5: self-confident (believe that Ethos will use everything, as understanding reputation is very important).
Yes - this is important, but there can be many options. And it's not a fact that Ethos will be the best due to their social factor (people will always try to overpower: example of failed social networks Steem).
Otherwise: well done for describing the reasons for creation, and why the project will have good demand: people need to understand the reputation of profiles.
It's also great that there is documentation for developers to integrate Ethos into their applications.
The functionality is interesting and unique.

Tokenomics: no utility and initial distribution. But there is a point program.

The truth about the details was written to me in Discord as follows:

"We value quality reviews and vouchers, as well as holding Ethos market assets. In addition, completing your daily tasks will help us with this. However, we will not go into details about how people can specifically earn XP."

According to Cryptorank, Ethos received 1.75 million dollars:

From dingaling, Zeneca, Bharat Krymo, 0xQuit, James Hall, and Sighduck.

Rating 2 out of 5: no tokenomics (utility and initial distribution). There is an XP program, but details are missing, although they said to participate in daily tasks, leave reviews and profile ratings, voucher, and perform other actions.
Investments of 1.75 million dollars from unknown persons.

There is a white paper page on contracts and property rights:

Smart contracts are managed by a multi-sig Safe.

0xB4a9bc5fb037eBd805a405F2b53cFadF4bCB4774 has the rights to own smart contracts and requires 3 out of 5 signatures to manage Ethos smart contracts

On the page, you will also find a table with the wallets of the multi-sig managers.

Ethos also uses admin approval and a separate multi-signature for operations not related to fund withdrawals. This is also protected by the Safe multi-sig and requires 2 out of 4 signatures to manage operations not related to fund withdrawals. The address of this Safe is 0x72F04d999E12D456FE7eE0Acaa345124A081018D.

There is also a list of admin wallets.

Finally, Ethos has a bank wallet where all protocol payments are sent. It is also protected by a 2 out of 3 multi-sig Safe. The address is 0x9C98258da66Ed095948CE4774e541C9FE978e946.

Next is a table of admins and a table with a list of Ethos contracts.

What is managed by multi-sigs is bad. Although as a temporary solution until there is a DAO, it's okay.
But I would advise Ethos to use not only the protocol token for management after development, but also the score of participants from 2000.

Updates 5 months ago.

It is important that there are links to smart contract code:

Above I showed a screenshot with an example.

This is important as it allows those interested to analyze the code.

It turns out that the code for ContractAddressManager, EthosAttestation, EthosDiscussion, EthosProfile, EthosReview, Reputation Market, EthosVote, EthosVouch, InteractionControl, SignatureVerifier, EthosSlash is published - that's cool!

The only thing is, I couldn't find the Ethos Markets contracts from the name.

There are also smart contract audits:

Ethos conducted three audit stages via Sherlock.xyz, covering different contract groups: Ethos 1 (Social Contracts) on November 3, 2024, Ethos 2 (Financial Contracts) on December 5, 2024, and Ethos 3 (Reputation Market) on December 30, 2024.

The page also lists recently implemented smart contract upgrades, such as the change to the "Vouch After Attestation" function (for both Vouch and Profile contracts) and the check for attempts to pop() from an empty array (Empty Array Check), with links to the corresponding transactions.
This is great as it speaks to Ethos' full transparency!

1. Social Contracts (November 2024)

Found 3 medium-level issues, no critical (High) ones.

All 3 Medium issues were fixed by the team (confirmed in the report).

In the end, there were no open vulnerabilities left.

2. Financial Contracts (December 2024)

Found 4 critical (High) and 3 medium (Medium).

Among the issues:

• Price manipulation on the curve (bonding curve manipulation).

• Errors in fee calculation (overpay fees, double counting when withdrawing funds).

• Exploit in the Vouch system (user can pay less fees).

All High and Medium were fixed in subsequent PRs (links to fixes are provided).

The report states that there are no remaining unfixed issues.

3. Reputation Market (December 2024)

Found 0 critical, 2 medium (Medium):

• Issue with high gas cost when calculating vote purchases (may cause OOG).

• Rounding error in the function _calcCost that prevented selling the last votes.

Both Medium issues were fixed by the team (links to PRs are available).

As stated in the report - there are no unresolved issues left.

The link to it is provided in the white paper:

The Ethos bug bounty program is designed to reward researchers who act ethically and help improve the security of the platform. The main principle of the program is that what matters most is not formal rules, but whether the researcher acted honestly and without harm to users or infrastructure.

Researchers must comply with ethical and legal standards. Actions that go beyond testing and can harm the system or users are not allowed. Threatening, blackmailing, disclosing personal data of employees or users, as well as interacting with them outside official channels for reporting is prohibited. Rewards and their amounts are determined by the Ethos team or partners managing the program.

Testing is only conducted in specially designated environments. Production services (e.g., app.ethos.network and api.ethos.network) cannot be tested, only the use of test environments (testnet.ethos.network and api.testnet.ethos.network) is allowed. DoS attacks are prohibited. Testing on third-party services such as Twitter/X, Cloudflare, Intercom, Alchemy, and Moralis is not allowed. If your checks can create increased load, you need to notify the team in advance. Testing smart contracts on the public mainnet is also prohibited - for this, local forks or test networks should be used, and in case of necessity, coordinate checks with the Ethos team.

In the event of a vulnerability discovery, the researcher must adhere to responsible disclosure: information cannot be published before it is fixed, discussed in public channels, or used for personal gain. You cannot independently try to save funds without written permission. Submissions are only accepted through official channels - for web services at support@ethos.network, and for smart contracts through the Sherlock platform. The report should describe the vulnerability, demonstrate how to reproduce it or provide a working Proof of Concept, assess the impact on users and the platform, and format everything as one bug per report. The language of reports is English.

Rewards depend on the severity of the issues found. For web services, maximum payouts are:

• for critical vulnerabilities - up to $1000,

• for high - up to $500,

• for medium - up to $50.

• Low or informational errors can earn a positive review from the Ethos team.

Payouts are possible in fiat or USDC/USDT. For smart contracts, rewards and all disputes are fully regulated by Sherlock.

Critical findings include things like obtaining private signing keys or the ability to steal user funds. High severity issues include, for example, redirecting users to incorrect addresses, impersonating social accounts, or coercing others to take actions within the system. Medium severity vulnerabilities allow for obtaining bonuses for others' social accounts or forcing others' referral links. Low severity errors only affect internal metrics like XP or score. For smart contracts, the criteria are strictly defined by Sherlock.

Ethos also applies a "Safe Harbor" policy. This means that ethical researchers (whitehats) who act in the interest of protecting the system will not face legal consequences. To receive this protection, you must notify Ethos of your actions via support@ethos.network and receive written confirmation. In the event of funds being saved, at least 90% must be returned within 24 hours to the specified wallet address.

You described everything in detail - that's great!
The only thing is, the amount for the web service is very small, and the rewards for smart contract vulnerabilities are not described on the page itself.

I went to the page in Sherlock, and here's what it says:

• Critical vulnerabilities - $150,000 (no more than 10% of funds at risk at the time of reporting)

• High - $50,000

• Medium - $10,000

• Low - $1,000

• Informational - review/acknowledgment without monetary reward

The main codebase is not open, but there is Github:

12 repositories. Let's consider the main ones.

trust-ethos/api-docs:

API documentation for developers.

The last commit was last week:

There are 45 of them:

14, 8 August, 23, 10, 7 July and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-twitter-agent:

Twitter agent ethosAgent.

Also, the latest update last week:

Total 271 commits:

August 13, 19, 18, 17 and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-discord:

Discord bot for displaying Ethos scores.

Last update two weeks ago:

Total - 71 commits:

August 8, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 7, 4 June and earlier.

trust-ethos/zora-ethos-sniper:

Automated bot for trading creator coins for the Zora protocol on the Base network.

The last commit was 3 weeks ago:

There are 7 of them:

July 29 and 28.

trust-ethos/ethos-invite-graph:

Web application for visualizing invitation networks on the Ethos platform using interactive charts and network analysis.

Last updated last month:

There are 25 of them:

July 22 and 21.

trust-ethos/ethos-anonymous-reviews:

Anonymous reviews in Ethos.

Last updated last month:

Total - 128 commits:

17, 7, 6 July, 29, 26, 25, 19, 18, 17 June and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-farcaster:

Last update last month:

Farcaster Demo for Ethos. As I understand, this is about a Farcaster application.

Total 9 commits:

9 and 7 July.

trust-ethos/ethos-spiderchart:

A web application that analyzes Ethos profiles and visualizes how well users match specified categories using AI analysis of their reviews and confirmations, displayed as an interactive spider graph.

The last commit was last month:

There are 35 of them:

July 8, 3, and 2, .

trust-ethos/ethos-whitepaper:

White paper for Ethos protocol and Ethos network.

Last updated last month:

Total 22 commits:

July 3, June 2, and earlier.

trust-ethos/ethos-r4r:

A complex web application for analyzing "Review 4 review" patterns and building reputation on the Ethos platform. Built using Deno Fresh, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.

Last updated 2 months ago:

Total 27 commits:

June 27, 25, and 23.

Rating 4 out of 5: code is partially open (except for core functionality), but there are various services. Smart contracts are also verified in Basescan, allowing you to read their code.
There are audits and a bug bounty program with maximum rewards of $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts and $1,000 for errors in the web service.

Project website https://app.ethos.network/:

To register, you will need an invite. Look for them from acquaintances using Ethos, on social media (unlikely, as inviting the wrong people can lower your score) or in chats you are part of.

I already have an account - I click on the button next to "Leaderboard" in the menu:

Here we see various settings and links, including Login. But before logging in, let's see what else is here.

You can go to the Directory to view all Ethos profiles with filtering:

"Get the Chrome extension" will allow you to install an extension to view Ethos score profiles:

I opened it, but didn't find any text labels (I'll tell the founder about this later):

There might be a graphical representation of the score.

I'll show Ethos Markets as a separate practice section.

So, we click "Login":

Here you can choose a wallet, but I choose "Log in with a social account":

I chose Telegram and authorized:

You will be asked for an invite, and after specifying it, the same thing as mine will open immediately.

Let's start by going to Settings:

Here I recommend connecting your EVM wallet (mine is already connected) and enabling the smart wallet (I'm talking about Smart wallet).

On the "Social connections" tab, do the same with the social networks listed here:

As you can see, I already have all available ones connected.

This is important to do, as it can increase your score.

On the "Notifications" tab, we just enable push notifications:

On your profile page (go from the account menu to "My profile"):

By clicking the "Suggest for category?" button, you can apply for a category in the leaderboard:

Connect X, select a category:

And fill in the other fields. Send and wait.

My acquaintance applied for "Alpha callers" and ended up in the top 20 for this category.

Let's go back to the profile.

Here we can also see what they say about us and what activity we have done in Ethos.

On the "Given50" tab, we can view outgoing actions:

Here, for example, is one of the reviews:

Awesome that the Ethos founder replied to it!

And I'm replying to the comment, adding something else:

Since my Score is < 1300, I need to connect a wallet to send a transaction:

"Connect wallet":

And select / connect.

After that, just "Reply" and confirm (requires Gas in Base).

Here's what was added:

On the "My score" page, you can see all the information about your score:

On the "Invite · 0" page, it will show you your invites and who you invited:

By the button "Invite · 0" I see that there are no invites yet.

Vouches

Go to the link "Vouches · 0.01e" (you will have 0E) in the account menu (where logout is):

Select the person you want to support with a vouch. You need to have at least 0.01 ETH in Base.

You can scroll using the "left" and "right" buttons.

Here is my second page:

Choose who you trust. It's great if you know that they will also leave you a voucher.

For example, this one:

Specify the title, description, amount, and confirm.

Also, at the bottom of the voucher page, you can add or withdraw a voucher from existing ones. But you should understand that if you do this before the end of the season, points (XP) will be deducted.

Adding:

Withdrawal:

You can simply take the money without affecting the user's score or take it with a negative review. The second option is a good idea if you supported someone, but the person did something wrong.

I, of course, will leave the voucher for now.

An alternative way to make a voucher is through the user's profile:

You can get a link from a friend, find in Directory or social networks.

Here we are looking for the "Vouch" button:

We write the title, text and enter the amount:

"Publish" and confirm in the wallet.

Done. We can share the voucher in X:

Or go to the voucher.

But I'll just close it.

I'll be happy to receive vouchers and reviews on my profile: https://app.ethos.network/profile/x/Denis_skripnik

There is a Review button next to the voucher button.

Let me show you the process of leaving a review on another account.

Log in to any user's profile:

"Review":

And write a title with a description. The more detailed, the better.

"Publish" and wait:

Done:

Can be shared in X:

That's what I did.

Slash looks like this:

For now, only trust score reduction is available, financial is not.

By the way, launching slash is only possible with a score > 1600. So I still wouldn't be able to publish.

But the main thing is I showed you.

And yes, as you saw I think in the profile, there are the same sections with user activity and what people are talking about.

They are on the page https://app.ethos.network/listings:

As I understand it, this is where projects are displayed that you can vote on.

Each Ethos user gets the opportunity to vote once every 10 days, either bullish or bearish, for a particular project.

For example, I choose "Espresso ☕️":

Here is the project information + the ability to vote. I click "Vote bullish":

By the way, note that 20% voted for the project (bullish sentiment), against (bearish) - 80%.

In the window that appears, I click "Vote (1)" - done:

Also, there are tabs below with info about the team, sentiment, top reviews, and comments.

"Sentiment":

In general, all the data is displayed on the page, and when activating the tabs, we move to the right place. Although visually it may not be so - I don't know.

Here are some more reviews, for example:

And comments:

At the top of the page, it already says that I have 0 bull votes and 1 bear vote.

I advise you to go and vote.

Here's an example of a bear vote. I selected the number of votes that I don't like the product and now there is confirmation:

I'm not showing you the settings, as they are at the bottom of the page, and I'm not sure if it will be visually visible.

So, I voted:

You can't add yourself to the listing - this only applies to projects.

Go to the corresponding page:

By default, the main top is displayed.

You can change the tab to "Ethos contributors":

Here is the top of Ethos contributors. You will be in first place, but on this screenshot - it's me.

It's important that you can filter accounts.

On the "Most credible" tab:

At the top, you can filter by category.

For example, here are the AI Agents:

Least credible or "Least credible":

First place here is Eros Agent, who tried to use AI to identify low-quality reviews and AI-generated content, unfairly damaging reputations... As a result, he was downvoted to a score of 634!
Pleasant, since he also accused me...

Go to the same-named link in the account menu or via the URL https://app.ethos.network/contribute:

Here we see the statistics of contributions and, if you haven't started today's tasks yet, you can start them.

Also, the start button is on every page at the top with the "Daily tasks•" button.

I start via "Start":

The first task is about whether there is trust in the account.

I follow the link with "X" and the login.

I look at the description, registration date, and posts.

And I choose. The options are: "No", "Neutral", "I'm not sure" and "Yes".

I set it to neutral:

If your score is less than 1300, you will get a wallet with transaction confirmation.

By clicking "Leave a review" you can leave a review. I recommend that if you know the X account you met well, write it.

I press "Skip & continue".

The next task appears:

Read the review. If it's normal, rate it. If the account seems familiar and belongs to another, check it.

I thought the review about the person was left by the Saga project account. But it turned out not to be. So I put "Upvote".

And further almost all tasks with rating reviews: "Downvote", "Neutral", "I'm not sure", "Upvote".

And the last task is to rate whether you consider the score of this profile high or low:

Also, I go to X and rate.

I said it was too low because he is the founder of Offchain labs.

And left a review:

Done (tasks completed):

Next time I will rate tomorrow.

I've been doing this for 20 days - it's not stressful.
On the contrary, it's quite interesting to explore Ethos this way.

On the main Ethos page after logging in, you'll find a feed:

You can view reviews of people you've rated.

There's also an option to filter by other parameters:

hot, by comments, by votes, etc.

For example, Hot:

You can flexibly choose what you want to read.

This is a separate site https://ethos.markets/:

Also click the button next to "Create your market":

"Login":

Click on "Twitter" - this is the only way, we authorize.

Done (you should have X connected to Ethos):

In the account menu, open Settings:

Here we can top up or withdraw funds from the wallet, as well as export.

"Fund":

And choose the method. In the case of a wallet, you will need to connect it, enter the amount in ETH and replenish from Base:

Minimum 0.01 ETH.

I will not replenish now.

"Receive funds" is just a QR code with the address.

"Withdraw" is a standard form with amount and wallet address input:

By clicking the link "My profile", we will go to the Ethos Markets profile:

The volume, balance, deposit and withdrawal, as well as open positions (I have one) are visible.

We can click on "Sell". We go to the profile page:

By clicking "Sell 1 vote", I can sell. But I won't do it, as I will only get 0.006 - this is a loss.

On the "Buy" tab, we can buy:

As you can see, the price of 0.007 is the same as I bought. So if you sell immediately or there is no volatility, you can lose 0.001 ETH.

Before the form, you can assess: trust or distrust the profile. Depending on this, it will affect the Trust Score.
As you can see, Ethos network has 65% trust, 35% distrust

Commission is 2%.

Let's go to the main page or via the Markets link:

Sorted by volume over 24 hours:

For example, the founder of Serpin Taxt has a volume of 150.93K $. You can use buttons to switch to buying trust / distrust.

When you go to the profile, you will see the same purchase form that I have already shown you:

Let's go to the "Leaderboard" link:

By default, the top by profit, but we can change it to the rating by Contributor XP:

You can filter the data. By default, the top for all time.

Click on the corresponding button:

Asks to switch to Ethos network to create.

There in the account menu, click "Create market":

Select the liquidity curve algorithm and click "Create market".
Requires 0.1 ETH. Since I don't have it yet, I won't continue.
But I think you understand that there is wallet confirmation and everything.

Also stated that I will earn 1% of all purchase transactions.

Rating 5 out of 5: convenient, understandable interfaces. There are nuances about availability, but hopefully they will fix them. In any case, the founder supported my information about the shortcomings in this regard.
The functionality is interesting. There is an opportunity to leave reviews, support with vouchers, slash, etc. There are interesting daily tasks for rating reviews and profiles.
In Ethos Markets, you can trade reputation, which is also interesting.

19 out of 25:

• Team: 4 out of 5: information about the team on LinkedIn is available, but there is no link to the company profile (had to search myself). Discord is active, the question was answered quickly. Only in response to the question about the team, they provided a link to the article without indicating the participants' profiles. But overall, the answer was correct.
  X profile is also active, and he has a good moni score.
  Minus one point for the answer regarding the team.

• Concept: 4 out of 5: self-confident (believe that everyone will use Ethos because understanding reputation is very important).
  Yes - it is important, but there can be many options. And it's not a fact that Ethos will be the best due to its social factor (people will always try to abuse: example of failed social networks Steem).
  Otherwise: well done that they described the reasons for creation and why the project will have good demand: people need to understand the reputation of profiles.
  Also great that there is documentation for developers for the possibility of integrating Ethos into their applications.
  The functionality is interesting and unique.

• Coin: 2 out of 5: no tokenomics (utility and initial distribution). There is an XP program, but details are missing, although they said to participate in daily tasks, leave reviews and profile ratings, vauch, and perform other actions.
  Investments of $1.75 million from unknown individuals.

• Code: 4 out of 5: code is partially open (except for the main functionality), but there are various services. Smart contracts are also verified in Basescan, allowing you to read their code.
  There are audits and a bug bounty program with maximum rewards of $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts and $1,000 for errors in the web service.

• Practice: 5 out of 5: convenient, understandable interfaces. There are nuances about accessibility, but I hope they will fix them. In any case, the founder supported my information about the shortcomings in this regard.
  The functionality is interesting. There is an opportunity to leave reviews, support with vauches, slash, and so on. There are interesting daily tasks for rating reviews and profiles.
  In Ethos Markets, you can trade reputation, which is also interesting.

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