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Ananku

Yes. Transitive trust is a core concept for Peer Mountain. And they call it exactly that.
Decentalization is the future. Unfortunately 99% of the projects out today are money grubbing. Think about this: if the team needs to hire tech to run an ICO, how would they ever build a blockchain solution? De facto, they don't have the skills! (only outsourcing marketing makes sense)
Ratings are worthless without trust. Actually PeerMountain is building a decentralized trust protocol that supports this. They call ratings "attestations". It's worth a read.