I will be real I used to think people were overcomplIcating the internet trust problem. felt like a buzzword. lately though… I am not so sure.
here is what clicked for me: we treat recording something lIke it solves it. It does not.
A wallet shows a payment. a platform says verifIed. A system logs the event. Cool… but who actually trusts that enough to act on it? that is where things start getting messy.
I have seen this play out in small ways even something sImple can turn into back and forth checks, screenshots, re-verifIcation. LIke last week, I sent a payment and still had to share the transaction hash + screenshots because the other side could not just rely on the record. proof became extra work.
and honestly, that is because everything is split. identity here, payments there, records somewhere else, compliance on top. none of them fully trust each other, so humans end up stitching it together.
That is why stuff lIke $SIGN is starting to make more sense to me. not hype just trying to make proof actually do something.
If it really reduces that gap, it is useful.
If not… it is just another layer that looks clean but still needs chasing behind the scenes.