On one hand, I love to see risk scoring. On the other, usefulness is undermined when the assessor has business/donation relationship w asset issuers.
Bluechip is another example where funding made it hard to rely upon their ratings. Credible neutrality is a hard requirement!
Given the importance of DeFi and stablecoins to Ethereum, and the public goods nature of risk ratings, I think there’s an enormous opportunity for @ethereumfndn to finance hundreds of risk ratings by assessors without any financial ties to what they assess.
This is also an area where an L2 could differentiate - especially since the differing risk assumptions between L2s & their local markets mean the sponsored risk ratings wouldn’t be very portable to competing chains.
@ajwarner90 @0xMarcB @jinglejamOP @jessepollak
The closest example to the ideal that I’ve seen is @MorphoLabs getting @CredoraNetwork to just rate a ton of their vaults. This only works bc Labs is mostly agnostic about which vaults get used, and Credora has many fewer relationships in DeFi to create conflicts of interest
To be fair, this is a hard problem to solve for. In TradFi, new ratings are generally paid for by the asset issuer. Who pays when there’s a migration in the risk (up/downgrade) is even harder and many assets are only rated at issuance.
This is a rare case of an identifiable public good in crypto that needs someone to sponsor it. Especially as DeFi users continue their investing journey from degens to risk-aware investors looking to protect gains while still being paid.
If anyone is working on this, DMs open
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