# Profile Each **Profile** aggregates credibility evidence. ### Credibility Hub One's Ethos Profile presents a summary of relevant credibility cues. Each cue represents on chain activity from Ethos protocol or linked wallets. It highlights the most high impact Ethos elements, including high stakes vouches, high profile reviews, and major financial holdings. The profile provides a launching off point to answer questions beyond what can be summarized in a single page. Drill down to identify what's most relevant. From the profile you can ascertain their social circles, allies, major praise and gaffes, kept and broken promises, etc. Profiles are hosted on by the Ethos Labs team, similar to a block explorer for a blockchain. Other dApps may also create their own views of Ethos Profiles. ### Credibility Score The Ethos [Credibility Score ](https://whitepaper.ethos.network/ethos-mechanisms/credibility-score)attempts to summarize as much relevant financial and reputational elements into a single numerical value. This is similar to a how a credit report includes a [credit score](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score). Because this calculation depends on social norms and impacts people's livelihoods, the algorithm itself is determined by the [credibility-consensus](https://whitepaper.ethos.network/governance/credibility-consensus "mention"). ### Ethos Web dApp The Ethos Profile provides a convenient user experience for vouching, attesting, and leaving reviews. However, the profile itself is stateless; it retrieves data from on chain, and facilitates transactions with the Ethos Smart Contract. The intent is that anyone may offer alternate profiles or applications that retrieve Ethos protocol data. Ethos provides a platform and record of credibility data; there are likely to be many useful ways to interpret it. ### Philosophy The Ethos vision includes being able to assess credibility for anyone you interact with online. The profile is the most substantial realization of that vision. Ideally other apps may reference elements of the profile contextually, without requiring the user to navigate to the profile page. ### Notes Profile is intended as a noun, not a verb. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.ethos.network/ethos-mechanisms/profile.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.