When reading about @SignOfficial I just glanced over it and found it quite simple. A project revolving around attestation, credential, on-chain reputation.
Sounds more like a toolkit for Web3 than something too grand. I thought it was just a Tool built quite well. But the more I read, the more I felt that impression was no longer accurate.
Because each individual piece looks like a tool, but when they are put together, it starts to look like a robust and unique infrastructure.🤩
Attestation, as I understand it, is simply the acknowledgment of a verifiable fact. Credential is a collection of many attestations over time. Reputation, on the other hand, is the result of credentials when viewed from a long-term perspective.
If separated, each thing is a feature, but when they connect with each other, they begin to form a system that can understand the user without needing to know who they are, which is interesting.
A dApp can use attestation to verify users. A protocol can rely on credentials to assess trustworthiness. Another system can read reputation to make decisions without needing to ask for any additional information.
I also realize the interesting thing when a system can standardize the way behavior is recorded and understood; it begins to address a problem that many other Web3 projects are struggling with.
Could it be that I have been accustomed to viewing infrastructure as something too grand, to the point of not realizing that sometimes, it starts from very small “tools” like this?
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