Building Your Reputation
One concrete action per score factor. The playbook for raising your Trader Score.
Your Trader Score has five factors. Each one responds to a specific behavior, and none of them can be bought. This is the practical playbook, the same one the app shows when you open your score breakdown.
Trade well (35%)
The largest factor is trading performance, pulled from your real DEX and perps history. There is no separate action here: trade with real size, on real venues, the way that actually builds or protects your own capital. Specialists are scored on the venue they actually use. A pure perps trader is never diluted by a venue they have never touched.
Build your onchain identity (25%)
Your zScore reflects your wallet's whole DeFi life: trading, lending, staking, over time. Two moves matter most:
- Mint your zScore. An unminted wallet carries the default score of 50. Minting computes your real score from your full history, and for active wallets it is usually the single largest one-time score gain available. The walkthrough is here.
- Link every wallet you trade with. One identity, many wallets. History that is not linked is history that does not count.
Earn peer trust (25%)
Your Personal Community Score is what the people who have dealt with you say, weighted by their own standing. It grows slowly and honestly:
- Be worth vouching for. Trade alongside people, keep your word, show up in disputes with proof.
- Endorsements from proven traders move you most. Collecting taps from fresh accounts moves you almost nothing.
- Protect it: only file a formal dispute when you are confident. A lost accusation costs you more than a won one gains, and a pattern of bad accusations compounds.
Contribute to the record (10%)
Write experience reports for KOLs you have genuinely traded with. Endorse conduct you would vouch for. Challenge what deserves challenging. Contribution counts participation, not accuracy: showing up in good faith is the metric.
Hold your ground (5%)
The smallest factor, capped on purpose: your zaps balance sets your Clan Tier, and your tier adds a light bonus. Presence is a signal. Wealth is not a reputation.
What never works
Mutual endorsement loops cap out after one exchange. Bot followers count zero everywhere. Bought engagement has no surface to land on: every input is either verified onchain activity or trust weighted by verified standing. The system is not unbeatable in theory. It is expensive to cheat and cheap to be genuine, which is the design.