In Web3, anyone can make claims about anyone else, but figuring out which claims are trustworthy is tough. Projects can audit themselves, DAOs can hand out contributor badges, and protocols can verify users—but there’s almost no clear trust hierarchy to tell reputable issuers from those just promoting themselves.
This is exactly the gap $SIGN is trying to address
. They’re not just recording attestations—they’re building a system where issuers are evaluated based on their on-chain history. Using the same schema, an attestation from a recognized university carries far more weight than one from a wallet created yesterday.
Features like schema hooks and revoke histories make this space even richer: issuers can exercise their authority while leaving a trace of how they’ve done so. Taken far enough, Sign could turn issuers into a new layer of influence in Web3—but crucially, that power comes not from formal titles, but from a gradually built track record on-chain.