Here's what nobody tells you about "verified" on the internet...
A badge means nothing if acting on it takes 4 separate systems, 2 manual checks, and someone's inbox.
We got really good at recording things. Terrible at making those records do anything.
Credentials sit in one place. Payments in another. Compliance shows up late and breaks everything. The gap between "this is proven" and "this triggers an outcome" — that gap is where trust actually dies.
That's the part builders quietly suffer through. Stitching tools that were never meant to talk to each other. Users repeating themselves. Institutions demanding audit trails nobody planned for.
SIGN isn't interesting because it's new. It's interesting because it's trying to collapse that gap — make verification and distribution feel like one thing, not a handoff.
Will it hold under real pressure? Fraud, scale, legal weight, regulatory scrutiny?
That's the only question worth asking.