Your KOL Score & Reputation

Your KOL Score answers the question your followers cannot answer today: can this person's calls, and this person's community, be trusted?

This page is the leader's view: what carries the score at each stage, and how you defend it.

The cold start is fair

With zero tracked calls, your score is carried by what already exists: your community's verified quality, live from the day your members connect, and the conviction your backers burn on your name. A new KOL with a genuinely strong room starts Promising, not buried.

As your tracked record grows, call performance takes over as the dominant weight. The handoff is gradual and never punishes you for being early. The score only ever reflects what is on the record.

Skin in the game: the Staked badge

Lock zaps on your own name for 30 days and your profile wears the public Staked badge. It is the strongest signal a leader can send: if you are slashed while locked, the zaps burn in public, permanently, timestamped on your record.

Nobody is required to self-stake. That is what makes it mean something.

When you are challenged

Anyone can challenge you, publicly. That openness is the system working: a reputation that cannot be questioned is not worth anything.

• Lightweight challenges are answerable doubt. Your record, your defenders, and your members' experience reports are the reply.
• Formal disputes have stakes. The accuser locks zaps, you lock zaps to defend, and the loser pays the winner. Filing bad accusations is expensive: a losing accuser takes a standing hit heavier than any everyday action, and repeat offenders compound it. Your loyalists cannot shield you, and your rivals cannot bleed you for free. The math holds both doors shut.

What slashing means

A successful slash is the one event that overrides your displayed tier: your profile shows Discredited while the slash is active, regardless of the number underneath, and any self-staked zaps burn permanently. When the slash ends, your real score returns unchanged, but the slash event stays on your record forever.

The leaderboard is your distribution

Daily and weekly leaderboards publish to X with every ranked KOL tagged. Being on the board is free reach to every rival's audience. You can opt out of public tagging while staying ranked in-app, but the board is where the audience is, and visibility is the point of a verified record.