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“Why Reputation Is Becoming a Risk Filter, Not a Vanity Metric” -
Reputation in crypto used to be cosmetic.
Follower counts, likes, engagement spikes — signals easy to game.
That phase is ending.
As systems become more complex, users don’t evaluate code line-by-line.
They evaluate who is vouching for it.
Reputation is quietly turning into a risk filter:
which wallet you trust
which analyst you read
which library you import
which app you try first
In environments like Farcaster, reputation is contextual.
History matters. Consistency matters. Behavior over time matters.
This changes incentives:
exaggeration becomes costly
uncertainty becomes acceptable
corrections become credibility-positive
silence becomes preferable to noise
Reputation no longer answers “Who is popular?”
It answers “Who has been reliable when it mattered?”
As crypto matures, this shift will separate:
promoters from analysts
attention from trust
reach from influence
The next generation of users won’t ask what to use first.
They’ll ask who they trust to decide.
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