"Ethos: Reducing Governance Friction Through Reputation"

Ethos positions reputation as a governance signal derived from historical participation rather than self-reported identity. This framing is useful in coordination heavy environments where decision quality depends on filtering credible contributors without central curation. The system’s real value will be determined by how well it balances signal durability with decay and how it performs under adversarial participation. Without these properties, reputation risks collapsing into status persistence rather than functional trust.