The Promise of Peer-to-Peer Credentials

Our education system is only one type of reputation and credentialing system. Social media, gaming, Github, bootcamps and soon, on-chain activity in decentralized networks, provide forms of reputation that exist outside the framework of the education system.

Social capital is typically accrued by users or members delivering proof of capability or affinity (“Proof-of-X”). This is not just a play within online social networks but manifests itself in the “real” world.