I believe that not a huge discovery has drawn my focus recently. It’s something much smaller. That little bit of time when you are caught on another verification screen and the wait is longer than the action warrants. It is no longer frustration but it is fatigue. The type you do not even doubt. Possibly all you do is to click, confirm and repeat.
What began to irritate me is the normalcy of this. All platforms pose the question in one way or another. Prove who you are. Again and again. It is as though it were systems that have no memory as though there is no continuity. The identity erases far too easily whereas your data does not.
I keep noticing this gap. Value moves instantly. Tokens transfer in seconds. But trust still waits in line. It is weird to be disconnected. Why solved out the movement and not recognition? What is my reason to continually reintroduce the same systems to connect with me?
And that is where I started noticing something like Sign catching my eye. Not that it is offering anything huge but it appears to be concentrating on something that people have lost hope that it is going to get better. Checking that does not boot back to the operating system. Qualifications that are not confined in a single location. It is a very simple conceptand it continues to reoccur. 🔍
I believe that it is not the failure itself. It’s repetition. Isolation Systems that target the same problem. Storage platforms of immovable proofs. Networks perform separations despite relying on one another. And all this is accepted as normal behavior despite its inefficiency.
The distribution of tokens also displays the same pattern. New works, new portraits and new qualifications. Yet beneath, it is the repetition of the process. I have begun to observe the amount of effort spent in authenticating things already established elsewhere. It is more difficult to coordinate than to create.
What I appreciate is the fact that the users evolve quicker than the systems. Individuals repeat actions, archive pictures and reattach wallets. It is humans who are the platform interface. And I think that’s backwards. Systems are to be self connecting.
When this concept of a common credential infrastructure is mentioned, I do not necessarily see innovation. I see a test. Will systems be able to finally see continuity, rather than activity? Is it possible to do verification once rather than repeatedly? In case it does the influence will not be so spectacular. It would just feel smoother.
And smoothness is rare. More so in crypto where it all claims efficiency, yet still requires you to repeat the same steps. This is why I believe that this is more than it appears. Not as an epic but as a minor change of everyday experience.
I’m still skeptical, honestly. I have observed too many cycles where it is simplification that puts in additional layers. However, there is something nagging about this notion now. It continues to reappear not as hype but as a question which is yet to be answered.
So I am viewing it in a different manner. Not questioning whether it is going to trend but whether it will silently eliminate friction. Since change does not necessarily look big. In some cases it only entails fewer interruptions. Fewer repeats. Reduced instances of systems inquiring what they already know.
I believe the majority will not have the slightest idea. They will simply cease to think of verification. And perhaps that is when something like Sign actually comes in.
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