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SBTs compress trust that used to belong to social relationships into a system controlled by a single private key. Does that make trust more verifiable, or more fragile?
Zoe Hartman
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September 03, 2026
Most NFTs sitting in your wallet can be sold, a digital image, a game item, a ticket, they are fundamentally transferable assets. A Soulbound Token (SBT) asks the opposite question: what if a token value came precisely from the fact that it can not be transferred? The answer has already been running in the real world for more than three years, from exchange identity verification to stopping...