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Team public accountability surface

Babylon Protocol's assessment for RD-F-112 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

David Tse: Stanford faculty page, IEEE Xplore author profile, Wikipedia, Quanta Magazine profile, IEEE award pages (Shannon Award 2017, Hamming Medal), Google Scholar with hundreds of citations, multiple YouTube conference appearances. Fisher Yu: LinkedIn employer history, Google Scholar, Nasdaq published interview documenting career from Dolby to Babylon, conference video at Token2049. Covenant committee external members (AltLayer, CoinSummer/StakeFish, Cubist, Informal Systems, RockX, Zellic) are all named, publicly-listed entities with multi-year industry track records. Accountability surface is among the highest in DeFi for a founding team.

Sources #

Methodology #

Count the number of verifiable public trails per team member (LinkedIn with employment history, conference talks, prior employer records, GitHub with aged contribution history).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol babylon-protocol factor RD-F-112 score green collected_at 2026-05-04 19:43:27