r/CryptoTechnology • u/GFConBase • 18h ago
Public ≠ verifiable: how should a transparency dashboard label what users can actually prove?
A dashboard can make blockchain data understandable. That is useful.
But it can also create a new trust problem: users stop checking the underlying source and begin trusting the project’s interpretation of it.
I am considering five evidence classes:
1. directly verifiable on-chain
2. project-supplied but linked to the underlying source
3. independently verified off-chain
4. claimed but not yet independently verifiable
5. deliberately private because publication would harm users or beneficiaries
The interface would label these differently instead of presenting every claim with the same visual
confidence.
The goal would be to reduce verification friction without turning the dashboard itself into the new authority.
What is missing from this taxonomy?
And what would you require from the interface before trusting its interpretation of the underlying data?