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weRate is a mobile review app built on Solana. It pays users for checking in at restaurants, cafés, bars, gyms and other local venues and for reviewing them. Reviews backed by proof of a real visit count for more and earn more.

Don't confuse it with "WeRate: Social Rating App". That is a separate app where friends form clubs to rate films and books. It has a different developer and no crypto.

The Solana weRate calls itself "a new kind of review platform that focuses on real experiences verified in the real world." Its whitepaper says Yelp and Google reviews have a trust problem. Fake and AI-written reviews are hard to spot. Honest reviewers get little back. weRate's fix has two parts. Each review is scored by how much proof backs it. Good reviews earn credits, points and progress in an avatar game.

How the weRate app works: check-ins, reviews and TrustScore

The core loop, per the product overview, is simple. You check in at a venue, leave a review, earn rewards, and then find new places through reviewers you trust. The app has a map for finding venues and lets you follow other contributors.

Check-ins. A check-in proves you were physically at a venue. The app uses GPS to confirm you are nearby, blocks check-ins from too far away or from faked locations, and can ask for phone biometrics. Check-ins pay no XP, points or credits on their own. Instead they raise the TrustScore of any later review of that venue, which raises that review's reward.

Reviews and TrustScore. A basic review is just a star rating and takes under a minute. You can add ratings for six sub-categories, written comments, photos and receipts, and confirm a check-in. Each of these feeds the review's TrustScore, which sets how much XP, leaderboard points and credits it earns. The documentation says receipt uploads give the biggest boost.

Proof-of-Authenticity. TrustScore sits inside a wider Proof-of-Authenticity framework. It weighs location evidence (check-ins, GPS, geotagged photos, AI checks for spoofing), light checks that a real person is behind the account (device consistency, phone verification, optional wallet linking), optional proof of purchase, and behaviour such as how often someone visits and how far apart their reviews are. Every signal is optional. In the docs' words, users "are never punished for sharing fewer signals. They simply earn more when they provide more proof."

On-chain proof-of-review. weRate plans to record parts of this evidence on Solana: encrypted proof of a visit and timestamped contributions, with personal data kept in the app. "The chain stores proof, not personal data," the docs say. As of October 2026 the same page still says the feature "is not yet connected to the weRate mobile app and will be released in 2026." So today, the review records live in weRate's own systems, not on-chain.

weRate Terries: avatars, rarity tiers and multipliers

Every account gets a Terry, a collectible avatar. It levels up as you visit places, write reviews, finish quests and climb leaderboards. Each Terry has six trait slots, some just for looks and some that change play. Terries also boost the points you earn and have four skills: Ambition, Focus, Luck and Influence. You can own several, but only one is active at a time. That one sets your rewards.

The docs list seven rarity tiers:

A planned "Fusion" feature will let users combine two Terries into a rarer one. The docs say rarity changes how much you can earn but does not lock anyone out of basic play.

weRate rewards, credits and the marketplace

The app pays three kinds of rewards. XP levels up your Terry. Leaderboard points (LP) set your rank. A "Rate" credit can be spent. Each task has a base payout, and your Terry's rarity, level and skills add to it. The app store pages also describe weekly quests and seasonal leaderboards.

The in-app marketplace has three parts:

• Wallet: shows credit balances with an estimated USD value. It runs on a built-in non-custodial wallet using Web3Auth, so you don't need to know anything about crypto to use it.
• Deals: swap credits for raffle tickets, brand gift cards and seasonal perks.
• Assets store: buy Terries, trait packs and boosts.

weRate crypto: the $RATE token

The whitepaper describes $RATE as a Solana token with a maximum supply of 1 billion. Each day, 2.5% of in-app spending is to be burned. Burns stop at 250 million $RATE, a quarter of supply. The planned allocation is:

• 30% reward pool
• 20.5% seed round
• 15% team
• 14.5% strategic investors and VCs
• 12% foundation
• 10% external activities and marketing
• 5% advisors
• 5% liquidity
• 4.5% pre-seed
• 2% KOL round
• 2% public sale

The reward pool is meant to pay out 2.5% of its balance each month to the leaderboards. There are boards for overall rank, rarity, category and country. Payouts start small and grow as more people join.

The Romanian exchange TOKERO ran a $RATE presale on its launchpad. It sold $100,000 of tokens at $0.0125 to $0.015 each, with ID checks. Buyers wait three months after launch, then tokens unlock bit by bit over 18 months. The sale is closed.

Is $RATE trading? We could not confirm from any official weRate source that $RATE has launched, so this profile gives no contract address. Be careful with lookalikes. Other unrelated Solana tokens already trade under the RATE ticker, including a Pump.fun memecoin called RateCoin. Neither has any stated link to weRate. Only trust a mint address published by weRate itself.

How weRate makes money from venues

weRate also plans to charge venues for a Verified Venues subscription. Paying venues get a purple badge and a bigger spot on the map. They can be promoted to nearby users and see data on their check-ins, reviews and rivals. They can reply to reviews, message customers and run offers. weRate also plans to sell ads, paid per click or per view. One thing is ruled out: a business cannot pay to remove bad reviews.

Is weRate worth using? Who it suits

weRate suits people who already write local reviews, visit the same cafés, bars and gyms often, and are happy to share their location and receipts for small rewards. You can use it without touching crypto, since the wallet is built in and the rewards are in-app credits for gift cards and raffles.

It suits you less if you want cash rewards or a liquid token today. $RATE has no confirmed launch, and earnings scale with the rarity of your Terry, so free users earn less than those who buy a $25 to $1,600 avatar. Paying for a Terry is a bet that the app keeps running and that credits hold value. It is also a poor fit if you want reviews that are already stored on-chain: that feature is still on the roadmap.

Is weRate safe? Risks to know

• Activity signals are mixed (October 2026). The apps are listed on both stores, and the iOS app was last updated in March 2026 (version 4.3.1). But werate.io, and the get.werate.io download link that redirects to it, returned a 404 error when we checked in October 2026. A fetch of @weRate_Official found no posts in the previous five months. Of weRate's own web domains, only the whitepaper site was serving content.
• No published audit. We found no security audit. Our records list no on-chain program addresses for weRate, and the on-chain proof-of-review is not live, so there is no deployed program whose upgrade authority we can check.
• Custody. The Web3Auth wallet is described as non-custodial, but credits, TrustScores and reviews sit in weRate's own systems until the on-chain records ship. If the company stops, so do the rewards.
• Token risk. Presale buyers face a cliff and an 18-month vesting schedule, and 61.5% of supply is allocated to seed, pre-seed, strategic and KOL investors, the team and advisors. Watch for impostor RATE tokens, as above.
• Privacy. The highest rewards go to users who share GPS data, photos, receipts and biometrics.

weRate alternatives

The obvious alternatives are Google and Yelp, the sites weRate pitches against. They list far more places, but they don't pay you to review. weRate bets that proof of a visit and rewards make up for a much smaller list of venues.

weRate team, location and history

weRate was founded in 2023, per its Solana Jobs company page. That page lists it in Dubai. An older CTO job post on the same board places it in Brussels. The iOS app is published by WERATE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.

The CTO post calls weRate an early-stage startup with a live beta. It says the team won the Dutch Blockchain Days contest and season 2 of the Solana Founders Villa contest. The TOKERO sale page says Solana's Superteam network backs it. None of the official pages we read name the founders.