Pseudonymous Reputation

This highlights the need for on-chain reputation systems. On-chain reputation systems will capture our actions that occur on blockchains: our contributions to DAOs, our governance voting history, our token holdings, and more. Ultimately, reputation systems will use these on-chain actions to make predictions about how we will act in the future to ma... See more

Managing reputation information also requires publicly accessible data standards — agreed upon formats for, say, “what an attestation of a contribution looks like” or “how to formulate an on-chain record.” Structuring these inputs to reputation ensures interoperability, both (1) enabling people to meaningfully combine parts of their decentralized i... See more

...blockchain-based accounts are particularly apt at persistent pseudonymity through providing a public, pseudonymous, and cross-platform address that displays its actions over time, what Shreyas Hariharan calls on-chain reputation. What we need, then, is a technical stack that supports not an identity, but a collection of identities to navigate th... See more

The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share t... See more

We long for the day when Rabbithole or others have perfected the on-chain CV, but until that time, different levels of participation or contribution zones might act as proxies for reputation. 

3. On-Chain Reputation & Identity

The magic of interoperability is that you could earn a greater say via increasing some reputation metric within the community, or improving your reputation elsewhere on the chain. If you participate in a number of DAOs, someone could create e.g. a modified PageRank algorithm that determines your reputation score by incorporating all of your on-chai... See more

First, the reputation and credentials you receive in Web 3 are specific to you, not an app or platform. They are portable, and can’t be suspended or deleted. This has an upside and a downside. The upside is the value you provide in one corner of Web 3 can be rewarded in another corner. The downside is a poor reputation follows you, just like real l... See more