Reputation DAO: Would you give up privacy for unsecured loans in DeFi?

Reputation DAO: Would you give up privacy for unsecured loans in DeFi?

The platform intends on leveraging users’ personal financial information such as credit score and AML/KYC to help reduce the collateral needed to take out a DeFi loan. An ambitious new decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) has built a data service for lending platforms that records a user’s financial reputation to reduce the amount of collateral needed for a loan.It has partnered with Chainlink and that protocol’s founder Sergey Nazarov is an early backer.Users of Reputation DAO will have traditional financial data such as anti-money laundering and know-your-customer (AML/KYC),....


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