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Brothers, the bill known as the "CLARITY Act" that claims to decide the fate of cryptocurrency in America has once again gotten stuck in the Senate!! #美国加密法案再次遇阻

Where is it stuck this time? Let me break it down for everyone: Crypto giants like Coinbase hope to allow stablecoins to distribute some interest and returns to users. Sounds familiar, right? Isn't it just like when we deposit in fixed or current accounts at the big five banks???

This move will definitely slice the traditional banking cake, so the lobbying teams behind the banks are getting anxious, trying every means to stop it. Why? Because they are worried that once this door opens, a portion of the people's deposits will flow out to Web3.

Watching these people delay and delay, I feel almost numb. Every day they want this and that, it's so annoying. Just give a straightforward result; if it can pass, let it rise, and if it can't pass, it will also be bad news.

Faced with the possibility of traditional funds entering and the sovereign-level landing demand, @SignOfficial no more meaningless PPTs, just directly pulling out three technical trump cards:

The first card: S.I.G.N. dual-track system. Many sovereign countries and large institutions want to embrace Web3 but are afraid to fully disclose their data. The optimal solution given by SIGN is: keep core sensitive data securely stored locally while outputting immutable cryptographic certificates to the global public network. This is also why Kyrgyzstan's CBDC and Abu Dhabi's government system are willing to directly connect to its underlying technology. #Sign地缘政治基建

The second card: the ruthless Hook contract. The complex business and regulatory conditions in reality have all been transformed into smart contract code at SIGN. For example, directly setting that "only compliant users can receive returns" on-chain. Once an account is found to be non-compliant, the system does not require manual approval; it automatically triggers Clawback to reclaim the funds. This completely eliminates the inefficiency and loopholes of traditional manual review.

The third card: the "full-chain trust routing" that connects the entire network. In the face of the future fragmentation of global asset cross-chain, SIGN is building a universal certificate network for cross-chain. In the future, no matter where your funds flow to on any chain, its compliance status and audit proof can be instantly verified across the entire network, with green lights all the way, allowing smooth passage.
$SIGN

Live rewards casually amount to 200,000U, is this money just blown in by the wind?

Seeing other bloggers on the square flaunting posts about receiving 199,980U in live broadcasts, I admit I was envious. I want to start a live stream too, I also want to receive 200,000U in rewards. If it doesn't work out, I could reward a friend 200,000U to pretend to be a big shot.

However, thinking about it makes me sadder; I simply don't have that much money, it's sinful!

Sigh, after some thought, live streaming isn't that easy. Others have built up over years, so let's just forget it. Let's focus on something practical, participate well in creator tasks, squeeze into the top 300, and get 100U; that's what I should be doing right now.

Speaking of @SignOfficial . It gives me the feeling that outside the noisy live show, a true credit fortress belongs to everyone.

From "identity tags" to "winning trust with proof"

I carefully explored the core value of the Sign Protocol, which lies in offering a decentralized proof mechanism, returning the trust assessment of the digital world to the logic of real individuals:

(1) True sovereignty of digital identity: In a changing online environment, data can create false prosperity through short-term operations, but the on-chain proof on Sign is an objective reflection of hard strength. Whether it's your past deep involvement in project experiences, your real ecological contribution, or every on-chain contract you sign, all are immutable credit endorsements. #Sign地缘政治基建

(2) Low-threshold credit accumulation: Ordinary users do not need to exchange high financial costs for attention. In the Sign protocol, you can steadily accumulate credit points through every real on-chain interaction and every valid identity verification.

(3) Cross-scenario value transfer: Many isolated interaction heats dissipate, but the trust network you build on Sign has natural interoperability, allowing for transfers across protocols and chains.

Rather than being envious of that ethereal number in someone else's live stream, it's better to pen down your own credit trajectory on Sign. When every action we take has authoritative digital proof, the confidence at that time might be stronger than carrying 200,000U in your pocket. $SIGN

The new book of #币安人生 CZ is about to be released, and I have to buy one to take a look. Even my big cousin said that all the royalty income will be donated to charity, so we are doing good deeds together.

I entered this circle in December 2017, which happened to be the year Binance was founded. I want to see what opportunities and challenges are in the eyes of my big cousin, and how they have walked step by step through it all. This is the history of Binance's development and also the youth of a retail investor like me.

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Creator's Daily:

This week, the founder of ADA, Charles Hoskinson, referred to it as "Midnight Week," and the mainnet has finally entered trial operation.

Many people in the square immediately reacted to the news saying, "Currently operated by nodes from Google Cloud, Vodafone, and other institutions," and started criticizing in the comments: There are only a few institutional nodes, isn't this centralization? What kind of Web3 is this?

Seeing such comments, as someone who has worked in physical engineering for over a decade, I can only shake my head in helplessness. In our construction circle, there’s a common iron rule: after a cross-sea bridge is completed, it’s absolutely impossible to let private cars run freely on the first day. It must be closed off first, with dozens of heavy engineering vehicles going back and forth to crush and test the stress; this is called "trial traffic acceptance." If you dare to finish it and open it directly, and something goes wrong, you will be in deep trouble.

In contrast, the current Web3 is so reckless that it’s frightening. Just piecing together a few lines of code and daring to launch the mainnet, calling it "decentralization," is in reality just letting retail investors use real money as "test subjects." Once a hacker robs it, they just push the blame onto code vulnerabilities.

I see that @MidnightNetwork is currently in Guarded Mode, and not only do I not feel disappointed, but I also feel reassured. This is the rigorous attitude needed for doing great things. Its current limitations are just like the load testing before the cross-sea bridge opens to traffic.

Look at who the first batch of bridge testers are! Google Cloud, Vodafone, eToro. #night

This is by no means an ordinary partnership platform. The chaotic era of Web3 has ended; these traditional giants are not interested in the little fees from trading dog coins. What they are really aiming for is the trillion-dollar gold mine of future RWA, enterprise-level settlements, and AI medical data.

The founder has invested 200 million dollars, not to hype a privacy coin, but to build an invisible highway that allows the old money of Wall Street to pass through safely. $NIGHT

#金价连续第十天下跌 Gold has been falling for ten consecutive days. Just when I was about to afford gold jewelry, our K-line chart master Mr. Trump stepped in and said to pause the attack, which caused gold to drop directly by $300, then rebound by $200. This roller coaster is too exciting, with trillions of dollars in fluctuations happening in a day like a game～～～truly a sight to behold.

Brothers, after witnessing this shocking washout in gold, my biggest feeling is that the 'consensus' in the traditional financial system is sometimes more fragile than a line of code.

Trillions of dollars in global safe-haven assets were twisted into emotional currencies by a politician's words. We often curse the manipulators in the cryptocurrency space, but looking at the global macro market, those who control the information gap and geopolitical hegemony are the biggest manipulators. This centralized power can easily strip away your wealth's purchasing power.

This is also why, after experiencing this round of macro market beatings, I have become even more convinced about the long-term prospects of @SignOfficial such "sovereign-level decentralized infrastructure."

While the price of gold crazily fluctuates with Trump's posts, $SIGN is doing something extremely tedious but absolutely hardcore—locking 'trust and rules' tightly on-chain using cryptography.

Everyone think about S.I.G.N.'s dual-track system: whether it's transforming public records for Abu Dhabi or distributing welfare for sovereign nations in the future, its underlying logic is 'identity verification + code execution'. #Sign地缘政治基建

A politician can cause a flash crash in gold prices with a single sentence, but no politician can alter the Attestation and distribution rules on the SIGN chain with just one sentence. Even if geopolitical situations become chaotic, the Clawback and full-chain audit trails written into the contract will still operate meticulously and will never be 'finally interpreted' by any individual.

Moreover, while traditional fiat currencies are being printed wildly and creating volatility, $SIGN made a whopping $15 million in 2024 with the real distribution business of TokenTable and spent $10 million in real cash to buy Bitcoin as reserves.

What do we call this? This is using a decentralized cash cow to hedge against the makeshift stage of the centralized world!

SIGN Is this going to close the net? Today, the daily line directly showed a large bearish engulfing pattern, and just happened to be stuck near the resistance level of the previous high at 0.062.

Looking at this trend, I am very worried that it will follow in the footsteps of those previous plaza creator activity projects: taking advantage of the event to create a wave of hype, and then the main forces use the opportunity to continuously sell off, burying us retail investors who are optimistic about the fundamentals.

From a purely technical perspective, it is indeed frightening. But if we step out of the short-term K-line game, does this big game @SignOfficial really just aim to harvest this tiny activity traffic? Let’s not forget its trump card:

TokenTable has truly distributed 4 billion dollars, and has generated 15 million dollars in real revenue in 2024. Coupled with Sierra Leone's digital identity and the collaboration with Abu Dhabi, this kind of "national-level sovereign infrastructure" hardcore narrative, is it merely a facade to cover the main force's high-position selling?

However, no matter how grand the narrative, if it cannot be realized, it's just a pie in the sky! $SIGN What does the current price need to prove to the market in order to truly break through the previous high and take off?

(1) What proportion of that 15 million dollars in revenue can be used each month to continuously buy back SIGN on the market with real money?
(2) When will the sovereign cooperation in the Middle East and Africa truly transform from news releases into real on-chain interactions? Can it generate hundreds of thousands of Attestation consumptions daily, making SIGN an indispensable essential fuel in national infrastructure?

If government cooperation forever remains at the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signing stage, if the nearly 18 million dollars of institutional unlock arrives on April 28 without real business consumption to absorb the selling pressure, will this proud "dual-track anti-corruption system" turn into a castle in the air?

Is the large bearish engulfing line near the previous high the ultimate wash before the main upward wave, or a charge signal for capital withdrawal?
#Sign地缘政治基建

In 2023, many old-timers in the crypto space still remember the wave of Bitcoin inscriptions. During that time, inscriptions were incredibly profitable, and everyone stayed up late to work on them.

I recall that as the number of transactions in the memory pool increased, the transaction fees were almost changing every second, which was particularly alarming. To grab a popular inscription, one had to pay exorbitant transaction fees. Those fees represented a real loss, and over time, it accumulated into a significant cost.

Thinking back to that crazy time, I suddenly came to a very realistic realization: although it’s the Bitcoin ecosystem, just one inscription can lead to a surge in transaction fees. How could Web3 possibly handle real, large institutional funds in the future?

Imagine if you were the CFO of a multinational corporation, having prepared the IT budget for the whole year, ready to move business settlements onto the blockchain. But then, because of a single inscription next door, your company’s transfer costs skyrocketed several times today! How do you account for that?

Costs are completely uncontrollable; the old money of Wall Street and traditional industries would never dare to join retail investors in playing this Russian roulette.

Seeing through this absurd pain point, you can understand how strong Cardano’s child—privacy sidechain @MidnightNetwork —has been after five years. Its killer feature that can absorb trillions in traditional funds is its extremely seasoned "dual-track" token model.

#night completely separates the "casino" from the "factory" at the physical level.

It has designed two types of tokens: one is $NIGHT , specifically for speculation, staking, and hype on the secondary market, with outside funds being subject to whatever manipulation you want, no matter how frenzied;

The other is $DUST, which is specifically for running smart contracts and conducting business settlements on-chain. Its consumption cost within the network is extremely stable and insulated from outside speculation.

What does this mean? It means that regardless of how crazily the external speculative market behaves, the cost for businesses operating on Midnight remains absolutely stable and can be accurately accounted for.

Without this cost-stabilizing bulletproof vest, public chains will always be a zero-sum game of retail investors cutting each other. Only true hardcore infrastructure that separates speculation from commercial flows can support the next wave of institutional funding flooding in.

Recently, the square has been flooded with talk about $SIGN , everyone is discussing grand narratives like full-chain proof and DID. But to be honest, what the crypto world lacks the least is "conceptually grand infrastructure." A bunch of projects have sky-high valuations, and when you peel back the layers, they turn out to be ghost towns, with nothing but white papers to show for it.

Today, let's skip the fluff and speak plainly: why should we hold SIGN in such high regard among so many hollow infrastructures? Just four words: native blood generation.

To judge whether a bottom-level protocol is good or not, don’t just look at what proofs it can issue; you need to see who is using it to manage core assets. SIGN didn’t just pop up as a PPT project out of nowhere; its parent company, EthSign, started with electronic contract signing, which inherently comes with an understanding of real business logic.

The hardest evidence is its star product, TokenTable. This thing isn’t just a pie in the sky written in a white paper; it has already helped top VCs and project parties handle over 2 billion dollars in asset unlocking and distribution.

Consider this logic: tens of millions of addresses, over 200 top projects, willing to let real tokens, worth real money, be released and managed entirely by SIGN's underlying protocol for on-chain proof. What does this indicate? It shows that SIGN has already entered the "throat of the Web3 capital flow." While others are still explaining what DID is, SIGN has already become an institutional-level "asset steward." #Sign地缘政治基建

SIGN's core competitiveness does not lie in how many certificates it has issued, but in its ongoing construction of a "final review network for compliant assets." From EthSign's commercial contract signing to TokenTable's compliant fund releases, it has truly locked down the legal effectiveness of the real world and the execution power on the chain.

This closed loop of "contract in the left hand, money in the right hand" is its deepest, bottomless moat. It is not begging others to use its protocol; rather, those projects that want compliance and manage large funds cannot bypass it at all.

This kind of protocol, supported by real business and massive capital flow, is completely different from those projects that merely manipulate data. $SIGN

Gold has plummeted again, and today, March 25, is also a historic day.

Last week set the record for the largest weekly drop, and this morning, gold has been dropping since the very beginning, opening at 4464, and just dipped to 4124, a single-day drop of 300 dollars is truly unprecedented. #黄金创43年来最大单周跌幅

My long position unsurprisingly became cannon fodder. Although I thought buying at this price was wrong, I didn’t expect the volatility to be so large, I’ve lost so much money, it’s really hard to make a profit.

With this blood on my hands, looking at Web3, I have a huge concern: when extreme crashes strike again, what will large funds use to hedge and avoid risk?

Every day in the square, there are people praising Ethereum and various L2 expansions, but those who have worked in construction know that if the underlying blueprints are wrong, no matter how high the building is, it’s still a dangerous building. Currently, 99% of public chains in the market are using the "account model." In simple terms, it means the whole village shares one ledger.

Usually, it’s fine, but when faced with today’s extreme one-sided drop in gold, all the big players in the network want to rush in to close positions and escape. The result is that the ledger gets stuck instantly, Gas fees soar a hundredfold, and your lifeline order gets stuck outside, watching helplessly as your position gets liquidated.

This is called a "structural deadlock" in architecture. This means they will never be able to carry Wall Street-level large funds for hedging.

This is the moat of Cardano’s beloved son—@MidnightNetwork , the core of the privacy sidechain. In Binance Square, everyone is focused on "zero-knowledge proofs," completely overlooking its physical killer feature: the EUTxO underlying architecture.

#night completely smashed that overcrowded "ledger." EUTxO is like splitting the ledger into countless "cash notes with their own password locks." In the event of an extreme crash, you settle your positions while I run my own path, everyone settles point-to-point independently, without interference. This achieves true "horrific-level concurrency" at a physical level.

With ZK privacy technology added, it’s like putting an anti-counterfeit invisible black box on every cash note. Large institutions build positions to hedge, not only fearing that MEV traps will see through their cards for precise dips but also not fearing being unable to get on-chain at critical moments.

Real Wall Street giants would never put hundreds of millions of lifeline money in a dangerous building that collapses under pressure.
$NIGHT

Brothers, these past two days I've been grinding the creator tasks for SIGN at Binance Square. I didn't score on the first day, and now my ranking is really far behind, it's tough, I don't know how to write anymore. I see everyone talking about 'revenue closed-loop', but writing this has become aesthetically tiresome, so let's dig into other content.

Many people talk about @SignOfficial only looking at its ability to issue certificates, but have you ever thought: if the certificate is issued incorrectly, or if this person turns bad or loses their qualifications, how can the state 'revoke' this proof in an instant?

The traditional approach is to issue a blacklist or reissue it, which is incredibly inefficient and prone to privacy leaks.

However, the W3C standard Bitstring state list introduced by Sign Protocol (see the 'Evidence Layer' section in the S.I.G.N. official documentation) is, I believe, the best solution. Let me chat with you about it:

To put it simply, this mechanism means:
When the government issues identity, welfare qualifications, or KYC proofs, if these things expire, are stolen, or if this person's eligibility to receive money is invalidated, the issuer just needs to click lightly in the backend, and the status is instantly marked as 'revoked'.

The coolest part is:
(1) Real-time effectiveness: The verifier will automatically check the list when scanning, and there is no need to contact the issuer again, emphasizing 'immediate invalidation'.
(2) Privacy protection: It is large-scale and privacy-protecting revocation. Others only know that this certificate is invalid, but do not know the specific sensitive reasons.
(3) Offline is also fine: The document emphasizes that it perfectly complies with ISO/IEC 18013-5 standards, supporting QR code and NFC offline verification.

Think about what this means in the already implemented SignPass citizen digital identity system in Sierra Leone. If someone’s identity expires or they break the law, the system can instantly invalidate all their associated certificates, leaving no opportunity for you to 'exploit the loophole'. In welfare distribution scenarios, this is a powerful tool against corruption and false claims, eliminating the need for manual efforts to recover it; the system directly locks it down. #Sign地缘政治基建

I noticed that while everyone in the square was discussing implementation, very few mentioned this detail. But I have to remind everyone that this kind of 'auditable, revocable, and privacy-protecting' certainty is key for national-level projects to dare to place orders and run in production environments.
$SIGN

Yesterday, I encountered a frustrating situation: I ordered takeout and it was half an hour late. When I received it, the bag was a bit damaged, and oil was seeping out. What was even worse was that it was just left at my doorstep without a phone call; I had no idea when it was dropped off. My first reaction was to give a bad review, but I hesitated for a long time with my finger hovering over the screen and ultimately didn’t dare to press it.

On one hand, I feel that the delivery person has a tough job dealing with the elements, but that’s just a small part of the reason. The more fundamental issue is — I’m scared.

He knows my home address. With so many recent news stories about societal revenge, what if a bad review angers him? My family is always my Achilles' heel. I can’t risk their safety for the sake of the satisfaction from a bad review.

We interact on the public chain every day; it’s fundamentally like ordering takeout and letting the delivery person know your address — it’s all “naked running.” To use an application or obtain an airdrop, you have to lay bare your wallet balance and funding routes. That’s why seasoned investors and big funds are afraid to make large trades on a transparent public chain.

If you understand the fear of ordering takeout, you can grasp the significance of Cardano (ADA)’s five-year plan — the privacy sidechain for its beloved child @MidnightNetwork .

Many people in the square think it’s just a privacy coin for anti-tracking, but that’s too narrow a view. Its true moat is in directly shattering this “must reveal your cards” rogue game at the grassroots level.

With the foundational Kachina protocol, #night has developed a logic for dimensionality reduction: it forces the “private state,” which is most prone to leaks, to be processed entirely on your own phone or computer.

When you trade on the chain, your device will locally generate a “paid and compliant” ZK mathematical proof to send to the mainnet. The entire network verifies it and allows it through, but no one can access your core plaintext data. The data never leaves your hands; anyone trying to retaliate or dig deeper has no way to do so.

In this circle, everyone is speculating on ten-thousand-fold dog coins, but it’s really just retail investors cutting each other’s existing shares. True large-scale flooding relies on midnight, which is a cornerstone that thoroughly cures the “naked running fear of revealing cards.”
$NIGHT