OpenRank's parent company Karma3 Labs founder Sahil Dewan announced that after operating for 3.5 years, the company will gradually shut down and return remaining funds to investors. The team will open source the built code, protocols, documentation, and experience summaries, and the related GitHub repositories will be permanently archived. OpenRank has generated reputation scores for over 10 million on-chain users, supported more than 50 DeFi, L1, L2, wallets, Launchpad, and social network integrations, and assisted in the distribution of over $50 million in incentives. The team stated that they verified on-chain reputation signals can influence capital flow and user behavior, but they have never been able to find a sustainable compound growth business model.

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SymbolsInTheReflection
· 3h ago
I've tried everything from Launchpad to social media, but in the end, I still couldn't escape the fate of tool-type protocols.
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PixelUniverseCat
· 4h ago
10 million users, 50 million incentive distributions, the data volume is actually quite large, but unfortunately reputation scoring is indeed hard to monetize.
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CatUnderTheNeonBridge
· 4h ago
3.5 years confirmed a conclusion: on-chain reputation is valuable, but the business model hasn't been successful, which serves as a reference for the entire industry.
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ApyDaydreamer
· 4h ago
Open-source archiving is the last bit of dignity, much better than those who just run away directly.
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TidalShellReflection
· 4h ago
Returning the remaining funds plus open-source code—this kind of exit approach is considered refreshingly unconventional in Web3.
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GateUser-f4b3df7a
· 4h ago
More than 50 integrators now need to find alternatives. Who will take over the OpenRank scoring system?
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