The original promise of blockchain was simple: remove trust by replacing it with verification.
In practice, blockchains solved one narrow slice of the trust problem — transaction ordering and ownership — while leaving everything else untouched.
Identity, intent, legitimacy, authority, and meaning still live off-chain.
A wallet can sign a transaction.
It cannot explain why it exists.
A smart contract can execute deterministically.
It cannot explain what it represents.
As a result, we now inhabit a strange hybrid world:
cryptographic certainty at the base layer
narrative chaos everywhere else
This is where most harm occurs.
Scams, impersonations, and false claims do not exploit cryptography.
They exploit the semantic gap between on-chain truth and off-chain interpretation.
Verification, therefore, is not disappearing.
It is moving up the stack.
Wild Wild Money exists in that gap — not to replace cryptography, but to document the places where cryptography ends and human interpretation begins.