When DeFi Turns Reputation Into Middleware
“Social reputation” keeps turning up on every timeline with the confidence of a solved problem. It’s pitched as the missing layer. The thing that will finally let DeFi graduate from over-collateralized lending into something resembling real credit. The thing that will make identity usable without surrendering to surveillance. The thing that will push the ecosystem toward maturity—clean it up, make it legible, make it safer. I understand the itch. DeFi has spent years pretending that credit is an […]