Four Pillars says Fluent can unify fragmented crypto reputation infrastructure

Global cryptocurrency research firm Four Pillars has published a report titled 'Fluent: An Integrated Operating System for Reputation.' According to the report, the current crypto ecosystem has more than 10 reputation protocols based on social activity, on-chain transactions, peer endorsements, and identity verification. This fragmentation creates inefficiencies, forcing each project to build separate Sybil (fake user) detection systems due to differing standards and data structures. The report also notes that reputation is often tied to specific chains and platforms, making it difficult to transfer, and remains vulnerable to manipulation due to the limitations of off-chain data verification. Four Pillars states that Fluent addresses these issues with a "blended execution environment" that combines EVM, SVM, and Wasm, allowing data from multiple chains to be verified and combined in a single environment. The firm predicts this will enable new models that use on-chain reputation as an economic variable, such as for determining reputation-based loan rates, evaluating curators, and measuring agent reliability.