【Uncle's Musings】Not Selling Technology but Selling Standards: Why Does Web3 Need 'Lego-like' Trust?
Uncle often says that during the Web2 era, we were tightly bound by the databases of major platforms. The identity you verified on platform A usually requires going through the process again on platform B, which is a typical data silo, both inefficient and wasteful.
What amazed Uncle the most about the Sign Protocol is not how beautifully its code is written, but its ambition to 'define standards'.
Through Schema Registry, what it is actually doing is unifying measurement and standards. It's like when Emperor Qin unified the cart tracks; once this verification format becomes a global standard, all identities, assets, and even drug development data that want to circulate on the chain must be put into this 'standard container'.
And Hooks are truly a stroke of genius. They make trust 'programmable'. If you want to collect fees during verification or restrict signatures to specific experts, just attach a Hook to get it done.
This modular design turns the originally rigid trust mechanism into Lego blocks that can be freely combined. For investors like us who value worth, this 'defining rules' underlying protocol naturally possesses strong exclusivity and a moat. While everyone is still debating which chain is faster, the smart ones are already focusing on who the true standard of the digital world is.
