How to Boost Your Legion Score: The Only Guide You Need

For a long time, the best opportunities were gated by money. Accredited investor rules, minimum check sizes, the right connections to the right funds. If you had capital, you had access. If you didn't, well, you watched from the sidelines.

That's starting to change.

When a hot deal is 50x oversubscribed, everyone showing up has capital. So projects have to choose based on something else. Most platforms default to lotteries or first-come-first-serve. Legion exists because we think projects should be able to choose who they actually want holding their token - the ones who've shown they stick around, contribute, and don't dump at the first green candle.

Your Legion Score is your onchain passport. It's the portable proof of who you've been as a participant in this ecosystem - which protocols you've stuck with, what you've contributed, how you've behaved after getting access to opportunities.

So how do you actually build it?

A quick note on transparency: Legion won’t always disclose the exact weights or every scoring detail (and they may change over time). The goal isn’t to help people min-max a formula, it’s to surface consistent, human, value-aligned behavior. What you can rely on is the direction of the signals explained below.

There's never been infrastructure for reputation in crypto fundraising. You could be the most loyal protocol user, the most thoughtful contributor, the kind of investor every founder dreams of having on their cap table - and there was no way to prove it. You'd show up to a sale with the same odds as everyone else.

That's the gap Legion Score fills. Your behavior across the ecosystem becomes visible - the protocols you've supported, the content you've created, how you've acted after getting access to opportunities. For the first time, being a good investor actually compounds into something. Your track record becomes your edge.

Your Legion Score is calculated across four dimensions: Onchain activity, Social presence, Developer contributions, and Value-add behavior. Each tells a different part of the story about who you are as an investor.

If you want to see where you currently stand, check your score at app.legion.cc/app/score

Do all four pillars matter equally? Not necessarily.

Different users will be stronger in different areas, and the scoring system is designed to recognize that. You don’t need to be a developer to build a strong score, and you don’t need a huge social following to be valuable.

Three common paths we’ve seen work in practice:

The Consistent User (non-dev): steady onchain usage + strong post-allocation behavior

The Educator/Analyst: useful content + organic reach + credible onchain footprint

The Builder (dev): meaningful GitHub contributions + credible usage + value-add after allocation

Onchain: The Story Your Wallet Tells

The onchain component isn't measuring how much you've traded. It's measuring how you've behaved.

The highest signal is protocol loyalty. If you've been using the same protocols through bull markets and bear markets, staking because you're genuinely aligned with the project, showing up consistently rather than farming and leaving - that's exactly what founders want to see.

If you've been using a protocol once during an airdrop campaign and never returning, that tells a different story. Same with bot-like behavior or sybil patterns across wallets. Founders see this and can infer what kind of investor you’d be: someone who’s likely to extract short-term value and exit immediately.

The scoring here is intuitive once you understand what it's measuring. It's not asking "how active is this person?" - it's asking "is this person a builder or an extractor?"

What to do (high-impact, low-risk)

What to avoid (because it can look like farming)

Here's a full breakdown on how each activity impacts your onchain score:

Important: don’t take on risk purely for a score. Only stake or use protocols you genuinely understand and want exposure to.

Your social score reflects your contribution to the ecosystem's knowledge base.

The most valuable signal is creating genuinely useful content - blog posts that explain complex topics, educational threads, analysis that helps others understand what's happening. This is the kind of contribution that makes you valuable to a project's community.

Having organic reach matters too. If you've built a following by consistently providing value, that's worth something. Founders want investors who can amplify their message to real audiences.

What hurts you is the mercenary pattern: only showing up to shill projects during farming periods, then disappearing. A history of promoting projects that turned out to be rugs. Bot-like posting behavior that signals you're not a real person engaging authentically.

Here's how each activity impacts your social score:

The through-line is the same as onchain: the score is trying to distinguish between people who add value and people who extract it.

If you’re not active on social media, don’t panic. You can still build a strong score through onchain consistency and post-allocation value-add.

If you're a developer, connecting your GitHub adds another dimension to your profile. It signals something founders care about - you're not just capital, you're someone who understands what it takes to build.

This doesn't mean you need to be a core contributor to major protocols. Meaningful contributions could be open source work, side projects, tooling you've built, or code you've shipped in any context. The point is that you have a track record of building things, which tells founders you understand their world from the inside.

For technical projects especially, having developers on the cap table matters. They're more likely to give useful feedback, stick around through the hard parts of building, and contribute to the ecosystem in ways that go beyond just holding tokens.

If development isn't your background, don't stress about this pillar. Focus on onchain, social, and value-add. But if you do write code - even if it's not your main thing - connecting your GitHub is worth doing. It's another signal that you're a real participant in this ecosystem, not just someone looking for the next allocation.

This is where it gets interesting.

The Value-Add Score measures what you actually do after you get allocation, and it feeds back into your overall Legion Score, affecting your chances on future sales. If you're staking, holding, using the product, engaging with the community - that all counts. If you dump everything on Day 1, that counts too.

A few important nuances:

The beauty of this system is that it creates accountability. Crypto has never had a real mechanism for remembering how investors behaved. Your reputation now follows you.

Here's how each activity impacts your value-add score:

The Legion Score isn't arbitrary. It's designed to answer a specific question that founders desperately need answered: "Will this person help my project succeed, or just extract value and leave?"

Every component - onchain loyalty, social contribution, development capability, post-allocation behavior - is a different angle on the same underlying question.

And here's what makes this system work: you can't game it by just showing up with capital. You build it by actually being the kind of investor that founders want. By using protocols because you believe in them. By creating content that helps others. By holding and staking and participating instead of dumping.

You boost your Legion Score by being a good investor. The score is just the measurement.

Common Questions We Get

How fast can I improve my score?

Your score isn’t built overnight. Think in weeks and months. Consistency beats intensity.

Can I improve my score quickly?

You can start quickly, but meaningful reputation comes from sustained, real behavior.

Does selling always hurt my score?

Not necessarily. A small sale doesn't automatically hurt you. Immediate full exits after allocation will absolutely hurt your score.

I’m new to crypto. Can I still build a good score?

Yes. Start with consistent usage of a few protocols, learn publicly, and contribute thoughtfully.

I don’t post on social media. Am I doomed?

No. Social is one pillar. Onchain consistency and post-allocation value-add still matter.

How often does the score update?

Score updates take time. If you don’t see movement immediately, keep going and focus on the fundamentals.

Can I get penalized for trying to game it?

If behavior looks automated, repetitive, or purely incentive-driven across wallets, it may be interpreted negatively. The safest strategy is to behave like a real aligned participant.

Glossary

Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Any references to selling, holding, staking, or other investment behaviors are explanations of how the Legion Score system works - not recommendations on what you should do with your assets. Always do your own research and make decisions based on your own risk tolerance and financial situation. The Legion Score system and its weightings may change over time.

ABOUT LEGION

Legion is a merit-based crypto fundraising platform that bridges traditional finance and blockchain technology. Focused on regulatory compliance, investor accountability, and transparency, Legion enables startups to raise capital through MiCA-compliant token offerings, while providing retail investors better access to onchain fundraising and redefining public token sales for the digital age. Projects using Legion can customize token allocation, whitelist, discounts, and more using onchain and off-chain criteria about each user to handpick an organic community of die-hard supporters.

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