Oof, rough luck for one of my research advisees---one of his interviewers for a graduate fellowship (a biologist, randomly) was still bitter about getting rugged by a crypto co-founder back in 2017 and unwilling to talk about anything other than FTX in the interview

Looking forward to the day when junior researchers in blockchains/web3 no longer risk winding up as collateral damage due to bad actors of the past

Head of research at a16z crypto.
Professor, Columbia University.

is it just industry reputation thing, or is there tech development that you think would help cross this threshold?

Both. Once the tech goes truly mainstream such things tend to take care of themselves