Neutral infrastructure is often presented as a feature. A road doesn't care who drives on it. A protocol doesn't care who issues through it. The neutrality is the point.
But roads built in certain directions still shape where development happens. Neutrality in the infrastructure layer doesn't neutralize the decisions made above it.
This is something worth sitting with when looking at $SIGN . The protocol itself does not decide who becomes an attester. Anyone can issue credentials through the schema registry. The mechanism is open.
What that means in practice depends on which institutions, platforms, or networks actually adopt the attester role. If credential issuance concentrates among a small group of recognized parties, the underlying neutrality of the protocol doesn't prevent unequal access to verified status.
@SignOfficial Sign Protocol doesn't control that outcome. Whether open infrastructure produces open access, or just moves the gatekeeping one layer up, is still an open question.