The more I think about Sign, the more it feels like one of those fixes that shows up after the industry gets tired of its own workarounds.
For a long time, crypto did not really solve trust.
It kept re-routing around it.
Every new app, every new chain, every new system came with its own version of verification slightly different, never connected, always starting from zero.
And people got used to it.
Repeated checks started to feel normal. Fragmented identity started to feel acceptable. Temporary trust became part of the design instead of a limitation.
Sign does not introduce something radically new.
It just refuses to accept that reset as default.
Attestations that persist across environments sound like a small shift.
But they quietly remove a lot of the invisible friction that the space has been carrying for years.
No noise. No spectacle. Just continuity where there used to be constant rebuilding.
Of course, recognizing the inefficiency is one thing.
Rewiring behavior around it is another.
Crypto is very good at adapting to broken systems.
It is much slower when asked to replace them entirely.