Is it a big step for a country to hand over citizenship to an agreement?
When Sierra Leone signed the contract with @SignOfficial at the end of last year, not many people in the circle took it seriously. But I specifically went to look up the contract documents and found that they were indeed not joking— the first phase requires running digital identity and stablecoin payments entirely on the SIGN protocol.
A country chooses to entrust core infrastructure like identity verification to a Web3 protocol; I have pondered the logic behind this for a long time. $SIGN
The most valuable thing is actually a standardized template called Schema. You can think of it as a universally applicable form format; a diploma issued by Country A doesn’t need to be re-translated or notarized when it arrives in Country B; the system can understand it on its own. The "selective disclosure" mentioned in the white paper further hits the pain point; you only need to prove "I am qualified" without having to disclose your ID number and address.
The verification service consumes $SIGN tokens, and the more people use it, the stronger the demand. This is completely different from those purely speculative narratives. I increasingly feel that the future digital barriers between countries may indeed need such protocols to break through.