I kept thinking about how $SIGN handles attestations…
one identity
multiple verifications
across different systems
On paper, it removes repetition.
Verify once → reuse everywhere.
But the more I sit with it…
something doesn’t fully resolve.
Because every system still decides
whether it trusts the issuer behind that attestation.
So verification becomes reusable…
but trust doesn’t.
Which means the system doesn’t eliminate repetition.
It shifts it.
From verifying data…
to evaluating who issued it.
So the question becomes:
when proof is standardized…
but trust isn’t…
did we simplify verification…
or just move the complexity one layer deeper?