Infrastructure8 min read
The Industry Standardized Data. It Never Standardized Trust.
The mortgage industry did the hard work of standardizing data. MISMO gave the market a shared vocabulary, and interoperability improved because of it.
What standards never addressed is whether a downstream party can rely on the work behind the data. Every counterparty still re-verifies, because reliance has no shared representation.
Standardizing trust means making verification itself structured, portable, and checkable — the same way the industry made data structured, portable, and checkable.
