I didn’t notice it at first. It just felt like part of the process. You sign up, verify, move on. Then you do it again somewhere else. Same steps, same data, slightly different format. Nothing breaks, so you don’t question it.
It only clicked when I caught myself redoing something I had literally finished a few hours earlier, just on another platform. Not complicated, just unnecessary. And somehow, everyone treats that as normal.
That’s the part that made Sign stand out to me, not because it introduces something flashy, but because it removes something I didn’t realize I was tolerating. Identity stops resetting every time you move. It just… stays usable.
I’m not even thinking about “infrastructure” when I look at it. It’s more like reducing a quiet kind of friction that keeps repeating in the background. Especially in places like the Middle East, where people don’t stay inside one system for long anyway.
$SIGN makes more sense in that context. Not as something you trade around, but as part of keeping that layer consistent when everything else keeps shifting. It’s not a big shift when you read about it. It’s only noticeable when you stop having to repeat things you used to.