François Fleuret: the future of peer review is cryptographically signed endorsement lists
ducha_aiki · x · 2026-10-15
François Fleuret proposes a serious rethinking of peer review: every researcher would maintain a cryptographically signed list of papers and colleagues they endorse, making scholarly reputation rest on verifiable public endorsements rather than journal gatekeeping.
A researcher replied asking whether such lists should be shared publicly; the idea points toward a decentralized trust mechanism for academic credit.
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