proposal-metis[.]xyz

proposal-metis.xyz was registered on February 21, 2026 and is currently taken offline. The site presented the page title “Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup platform – Metis”, which directly references the Ethereum ecosystem, confirming the impersonation of the Ethereum brand. Intelligence classifies the activity as a crypto‑scam. The domain has been added to blocklists operated by PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer, and appears on two additional security blocklists, indicating that multiple anti‑phishing services have observed malicious use.

Reputation services give the domain low confidence scores: Scamadviser rates it 36/100 and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0/100, both reflecting a high likelihood of abuse. VirusTotal analysis shows that 9 of 93 AV engines flag the domain, reinforcing the suspicion of malicious content. The SSL certificate presented as “WE1” provides no indication of a trusted certificate authority and should be considered untrusted. Because the site is offline, HTTP status codes cannot be verified, but the presence of an SSL certificate suggests the domain was reachable over HTTPS at some point.

No information is available on the hosting provider, IP address, ASN, or registrar, leaving the underlying infrastructure opaque. Defenders should immediately add proposal‑metis.xyz to DNS and web‑proxy deny lists, ensure that endpoint security solutions ingest the blocklist entries from PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer, and monitor for new domains that imitate Ethereum or reuse the “metis” keyword. Continuous vigilance of brand‑monitoring feeds and periodic re‑scanning of the domain are recommended, as the offline status may change and the infrastructure could be repurposed for future campaigns.