Schema Registry — the single point of failure nobody is talking about
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Last week I opened Sign docs again. Not for the first time. But this time I got stuck on one paragraph — not because it was complicated, but because it didn't fit the picture I already had.
Schema Registry.
@SignOfficial positions it as a decentralized hub for attestations. Sounds clean. But a hub is a single convergence point by definition. And if 400k+ active schemas exist with no compatibility standard — that's not a hub. That's a graveyard.
Think of a library where every author invented their own alphabet. The books are there. You just can't read them.
I'm not saying $SIGN is broken. I'm saying success can kill a system faster than failure — if nobody decides who sets the compatibility standard between schemas.
6 milion attestations already processed. Governments of UAE, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan onboarded. This is not a small project.
But here's the question I can't shake: who decides which of the 400k schemas become the standard — and when does that question become critical?