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How do I join Ethos and create a profile?
How do I join Ethos and create a profile?

Want to join Ethos but not sure how? Here we can explain what's needed to get started with your Ethos journey

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Written by Serpin Taxt
Updated over 3 months ago

Securing an Invitation

Ethos today is currently invite only. The invitation system is used to maintain a bad actor and sybil-resistant network of reputable users who help Ethos instrument web3 credibility.

In Ethos, invitations are extremely limited. To join Ethos, you must secure an invitation from an existing user. In order for them to generate the invite, you must provide them with a wallet address you control.

Once you've secured your Ethos invite, they will provide you an invitation link that looks something like:

https://app.ethos.network/invite/MjAtMHg5MDcyOUMyzTcyQzJCMwJkQTdFQTqYMDQyZmM2Qzc1ZUMwOUYwZTY4

Invites are only claimable by specific wallets, so make sure you provide the correct wallet to the person inviting you.

Accepting the invitation

Once you've clicked your invitation link and connected your wallet, you'll be able to select which invitation you want to accept. It's important to be thoughtful about which invitation you want to accept. In Ethos today:

  • The inviter's name will show up on your profile forever "Invited by"

  • For some TBD period of time, you'll create a bond with that person

    • Their credibility score will be influenced by yours- if you become more reputable, so will they. The same is true about becoming less reputable.

  • Your initial score will be heavily influenced by which invitation you accept. Choosing a score that's from someone highly reputable is likely to boost your initial credibility significantly. You can see this boost next to their name in the invite selection

Connecting Twitter

Once you've chosen which invitation to accept, you'll be prompted with two onchain transaction to create your profile. You'll then be taken to the next step in the profile creation process where you can attest (connect) Twitter (and in the future, other identities on the internet.)

Connecting your Twitter/X.com account is an important way to help other Ethos participants recognize you. Doing so will pull all Twitter information in like profile name and avatar. It will also affect your credibility score in two ways:

  1. Users with Twitter accounts that are older than 90 days old will receive some minor boost in credibility score

  2. Any reviews left for that Twitter account before becoming an Ethos profile will be associated with the new profile, and any credibility earned (or lost!) through those reviews will come with it.

After that, you're done! You're now free to use Ethos as a full member of the network.

Had any issues in your onboarding flow? Ideas on how it could be improved? Please feel free to reach out to us here or open feedback/bug reports at feedback.ethos.network.

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