Most regulated financial systems rely on institutions to arbitrate truth. Unregulated systems do not.
In crypto and adjacent domains, legitimacy is often inferred socially: through repetition, familiarity, or proximity to known figures. Information propagates faster than verification, and ambiguity becomes a surface that can be exploited.
This creates a structural problem — not a behavioral one.
Warnings, education, and advice attempt to change user behavior. They do not address the underlying issue: the absence of clear, publicly observable reference points.
Verification, in this context, does not mean safety.
It does not imply legitimacy.
It does not confer trust.
It answers a narrower question:
Has this ever been publicly referenced in a way that can be independently observed?
Wild Wild Money exists to document that layer — and Watchtower exists to operationalize it.