The “Political Correctness” of Open Code In Web3, “don’t trust, verify” is gospel. A closed repo smells like centralisation, scares away users and makes investors ask hard questions. The ethos traces back to Bitcoin’s 2009 SourceForge drop: no licence, no audit firm—just raw code anyone could compile. Transparency became the price of admission.What Open-Source Gives YouInstant legitimacy – anyone can audit for back-doors.Free labour – community PRs beat paid QA.Standard-setting power – Ethere...

The “Political Correctness” of Open Code In Web3, “don’t trust, verify” is gospel. A closed repo smells like centralisation, scares away users and makes investors ask hard questions. The ethos traces back to Bitcoin’s 2009 SourceForge drop: no licence, no audit firm—just raw code anyone could compile. Transparency became the price of admission.What Open-Source Gives YouInstant legitimacy – anyone can audit for back-doors.Free labour – community PRs beat paid QA.Standard-setting power – Ethere...