Ever tried to scale something without trust as your foundation? It's like building a house on sand—the bigger you go, the messier everything gets. Intelligence moving from concepts into actual systems needs one thing above all: genuine trust. That's where transparency and verifiability become non-negotiable. When every step is traceable, when contributions can be verified from day one, uncertainty stops being this monster that devours your operations. You can actually move fast without constantly watching your back. This is core infrastructure thinking—treating trust not as an afterthought but as something you engineer from the ground up. Because in decentralized systems, that's the difference between a controlled experiment and a genuine innovation that scales.