Organization Name – Jericho

Category – Experiences

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Jericho names its strategic choice plainly: build for a narrow slice of Web3 founders rather than for everyone building in the space. The platform, which describes itself as launching in 2021 out of San Francisco, restricts entry through what it calls a “stringent selection process,” then delivers value through monthly AMAs with names like Polygon, Starkware, and Near, a mentorship pool it calls “Angel Pool,” and a members-only resource library named “Alexandria.” That is a real where-to-play decision, narrow membership over broad reach, paired with a real how-to-win claim: curation good… enough that founders would rather pay for access than build the network themselves.

The test worth applying is whether that curation claim could actually be wrong, and here it cannot be checked, because the one input curation quality depends on entirely is not disclosed. Jericho’s own team roster names a Project Manager, Anthony Issa, whose credentials are not yet verified, and a Builder, Filippo Chiricozzi, whom VaaSBlock has verified, but nobody carrying a founder or CEO title appears anywhere in the public record. A strategy built on “we are more selective than the alternative” needs someone accountable for the selecting; that role is currently vacant in the data.

None of this proves the community fails to deliver. Introductions, a credible AMA guest list, and a gasless, soulbound membership NFT on Polygon gating Discord access are concrete product choices, not marketing language alone. But a how-to-win built on curation collapses without a verifiable curator, and Jericho’s VB Transparency Score of 2.77 sits at the 7th percentile of the full directory, rank 62 of 66 within the Experiences category, one of the thinner disclosure profiles VaaSBlock tracks. Jericho is Unverified under VaaSBlock’s RMA framework, with every pillar, governance, team, technology, results, planning, still unresolved. For the broader pattern this gap fits into, see VaaSBlock’s analysis of what leadership continuity looks like in a professional Web3 operation. A founder evaluating membership on the exclusivity pitch should ask directly who approves applications and what their track record actually is; Jericho’s own materials do not answer that yet. Read More