What is Ethos Trade?

Trade trust and distrust on anyone's reputation, paid in WHUF.

Ethos Trade Updated Oct 29, 2026 1 min read

Reputation markets on Ethos Trade let you trade on someone's reputation. Every market is about one person and has two sides: trust and distrust. Buy trust if you think someone is trustworthy, or distrust if you don't. The price shows how much the market trusts that person.

The trust price and trust levels

The trust price is the price of one trust token, between 0 and 1. Ethos also shows it as a percentage, called Market trust: a trust price of 0.72 means the market trusts this person 72%. Every new market starts at 50%.

Trust price	Trust level
0.8 – 1.0	Very trustworthy
0.6 – 0.8	Trustworthy
0.4 – 0.6	Neutral
0.2 – 0.4	Untrustworthy
0.0 – 0.2	Very untrustworthy

Markets never close

Markets have no end date and are never settled. You hold as long as you like and sell when you want to.

Where to find it

Click Trade in the top menu, or in the bottom bar on mobile.
On a profile, the market card shows the person's trust level, with Buy Trust and Buy Distrust buttons.
In the Ethos Everywhere Chrome extension, X profiles show their market trust.

What it costs

Trading is done with WHUF on Base, from your Ethos wallet. Each trade has a small fee, and you pay a little ETH for gas. See What are the fees on Ethos Trade?.

Next steps

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