{"id":30443,"date":"2025-06-05T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30443"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:52:07","slug":"ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-backs-firms-behind-blockchain-credit-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30443","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google Chief Eric Schmidt Backs Firms Behind Blockchain Credit Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>High throughput blockchain Keeta and credit data platform SOLO, companies both backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are introducing an on-chain credit bureau to give digital asset owners access to mortgages, small business loans, and other traditional lending services.<\/p>\n<p>Keeta is facilitating SOLO to create PASS, a blockchain-based, bank-grade financial identity layer, using know-your-customer, income, crypto assets, and business credentials, according to a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain infrastructure is synonymous with trust, so it makes sense to use the tech to store real world financial credentials, and cater to new digital paradigms within lending.<\/p>\n<p>The PASS product creates modern credit rails for wallets, dApps, and embedded finance, while allowing for pseudonymous lending and borrowing based on trusted credentials, the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time that a blockchain network has made real-world financial credentials, like income, assets, and identity, verifiable, tokenized, and trusted for lending,\u201d said Georgina Merhom, Founder of SOLO. \u201cPASS delivers a portable, programmable credit bureau, owned by the people it&#8217;s built for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric Schmidt has been involved in the blockchain and crypto space for some time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2021\/12\/07\/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-joins-oracle-provider-chainlink-as-strategic-advisor\">having joined Chainlink Labs<\/a> as a strategic adviser back in early 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High throughput blockchain Keeta and credit data platform SOLO, companies both backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are introducing an on-chain credit bureau to give digital asset owners access to mortgages, small business loans, and other traditional lending services. Keeta is facilitating SOLO to create PASS, a blockchain-based, bank-grade financial identity layer, using know-your-customer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}