The crowd kept touting Web3 as the salvation of education, but honestly, it was all a pipe dream.
In mid-November last year, my boss patted me on the shoulder and said, "Just issue a few thousand on-chain diplomas, it'll be easy." At the time, we were using the BNB Chain, and the demo was pretty smooth.
Then, boom, right before the deadline, the director threw a document on my desk. Strict compliance and rigorous auditing. And then he added, "Students get their diplomas instantly if they download the app; if you make them pay for gas fees, I'll fire you all"
I gave up.
Ethereum or L2/L3 is a nightmare right now. Customers are clueless, saying, "Oh, I thought blockchain was automatic" It was a laughable situation; he wasn't wrong, only I was helplessly watching the system crumble.
At 2 AM, I was scouring Github until I stumbled upon the Sign Protocol documentation. The feeling... was like finding a lifeline, but a really strange one.
What's this about multi-chain authentication?
Wow, it allows custom Schema creation to map to compliance rules... isn't that going to crash? We're currently at thousands of concurrent users (CCU). Oh well, let's just use their Schema-based attestations for off-chain and on-chain verification, and handle the gasless issue.
Putting Sign into the legacy system was a disaster.
Data migrations were full of errors. When we pushed to production... it was a total disaster. Transactions were pending, then timed out, and error logs were blazing red. My hands were shaking; I had to quickly write some dirty code and bypass the middleware to save the day.
After the storm, the team crawled out to refactor, optimize the database, and build automation tests. Finally, we issued 15,000 certificates smoothly, with zero gas.
I'm happy, but I loosened the security rules to increase speed. Now the Ops guys are cursing every day because of the bloated logs. I sacrificed security for ROI... do you think I saved the project or dug an even bigger grave? Go ahead and curse.
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