See, until today, centralized record keeping agencies have been a necessary part of the consumer credit ecosystem throughout the world. While these centralized systems have provided a much needed service and acted as the “sources of truth” between third parties, they have also given rise to the systemic issues described herein. The innovations brought on by the blockchain have enabled us to distribute data across many nodes, and therefore distribute that trust. This can act as the new source of truth and remove our necessity to rely on any one institution.