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Internet -based platform businesses outcompete traditional brick and mortar business on nearly all measures of comparison. Similarly, distributed ledger technology (DLT) businesses depend on the Internet and show a lot of promise in multiple business verticals. Yet, Internet -based platform businesses and DLT businesses have not reached their full potential. Multiple studies, data , and anecdotal evidence suggest that one core factor that undermines their evolution is the worldwide decreasing trust in the Internet and under-developed trust in decentralized technology solutions. Semada and the Semada Research Institute (SRI) believe that a decentralized reputation network can reverse that trend to increase trust in the Internet and increase decentralized technology adoption. We call this solution the Semada Internet of Trust —a network that uniquely captures real world information, context, and value in cryptographic transactions generating transparently validated consensus on truth. Through the creation of unconscious and conscious trust in decentralized networks adoption becomes a desirable outcome and increases. Semada is a unique blockchain platform well suited for the decentralized web. Semada’s core architecture continually resolves the blockchain trilemma by combining: (i) decentralization; (ii) scale, and; (iii) security. Semada’s version of proof-of-stake—a.k.a. the Anchor Protocol —is a unique consensus algorithm that enables block propagation through reputation staking and verification. Through its Sockpuppet Protocol , Semada is resilient to deceptive fake Internet identities, so-called sockpuppet accounts, and 51% attacks. Through its Persona Protocol , Semada facilitates digital sovereignty, self-sovereign identity, privacy , security and decentralized reputation . Trust enabling reputation can only be earned over time on the Semada network. The Semada Internet of Trust creates a framework of trust through reputation and incentive optimization that enables market conditions for unprecedented business models and market capitalization while reducing adverse selection and moral hazards for transacting parties. The network will provide information symmetry while reducing transaction costs for market participants. Businesses will leverage the platform to achieve efficiencies across verticals.
a complete absence of trust would prevent us from even getting up in the morning. (Niklas Luhmann). (Luhmann (1979).
A very large portion of ‘gig economy’ startups are at the core basically just a dispute resolution system a reputation system and a search engine.
If you’re looking to build a decentralized version of one maybe consider focusing on one component. (Vitalik Buterin). (Buterin (2018).
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Throughout human history, personal trust is first established within closed families and communities. Yet, in an industrialized and globalized world, trust is established by organizations (governments, businesses, schools, and other intermediaries) and procedures (rules, contracts, and hierarchies). Modern economy and society are built on the success of these more impersonal or institutionalized forms of trust .
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PEW Research (2014). (“standing social science survey question, “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people,” just 19% of Millennials say most people can be trusted, compared with 31% of Gen Xers, 37% of Silents and 40% of Boomers.”)
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Edelman Report (2018).
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Ibid.
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Fortune (2016).
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Nordrum (2016).
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McKinsey & Company (2015).
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Resnick and Zeckhauser (2001) “The presumptive challenge to Internet -based feedback systems is to get buyers to provide feedback with reasonably high frequency, and to provide it honestly. Frequency is not a problem, presuming the feedback is unbiased. More than half of transactions receive feedback. However, the 0.3% negative feedback rate on transactions (0.6% of those that provided feedback) and 0.3% neutral feedback numbers from eBay, our principal data source, are highly suspicious.”
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Resnick and Zeckhauser (2001).
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See critique supra at Fig. 1 and accompanying text.
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Calcaterra, C., Kaal, W.A. (2020). Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust. In: Corrales Compagnucci, M., Forgó, N., Kono, T., Teramoto, S., Vermeulen, E.P.M. (eds) Legal Tech and the New Sharing Economy. Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1350-3_8
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