I’ll be honest… the more I think about it, the more I realize the internet doesn’t really have a “truth” problem. It has a trust that actually leads to action problem.
We can already record everything. Wallets show transactions. Systems mark you as verified, eligible, approved. But that’s not the hard part. The hard part is what happens after that. Does another system trust that record enough to pay you, give access, or enforce a rule? Most of the time… it doesn’t. That’s where everything starts breaking.
And that’s why things feel messy. Identity sits in one place, records in another, funds somewhere else, compliance layered on top. None of these systems fully trust each other, so we get delays, duplication, and manual checks everywhere.
That’s the angle where SIGN starts to make sense to me.
Not as hype, but as an attempt to close that gap between “proof exists” and “proof actually matters.” Attestations, verifiable credentials, structured distribution… it’s all pointing toward one thing: making trust portable and executable.
But I’m not blindly sold. Questions around indexing, schema control, and who defines the rules still matter a lot. Because if those layers centralize, we’re just rebuilding the same system with better UX.
Still… ignoring it feels wrong.
This isn’t about moving money faster.
It’s about deciding what counts as truth online.
And that’s a much bigger game.