Last month, I helped my parents with a property power of attorney notarization. I went three times, paid twelve hundred, waited five days, and received a piece of paper with a red stamp. The lady at the counter said, "It only lasts for six months; if it expires, you have to do it again."
My friend did the same thing in Singapore, and the online notarization cost over three thousand, plus he had to mail the original documents. When we calculated while drinking, just the notarization fees alone would mean an ordinary person contributes several thousand a year.
Big companies have it worse, with cross-border contracts, asset proofs, and finding law firms, it easily costs tens of thousands.
To put it simply, trust in the real world is priced based on "who can afford to pay."
Banks, law firms, notary offices—they're not selling services; they’re selling "trust endorsements." They use their credibility to stamp your documents and charge a brokerage fee. This model has been running for hundreds of years, and the essence hasn’t changed—if you want to prove "I am who I say I am" or "I am qualified," you have to spend money to have someone prove it for you.
What $SIGN does is transform "proof" from "buying services" to "creating it yourself."
Their Sign Protocol’s core is on-chain proof (Attestation). You create on-chain certificates of identity, assets, and contracts and store them in your wallet. When the other party verifies, there’s no need to go back to the notary office to check records, no need to wait five days; all you need to do is verify the on-chain signature.
Cost? Storing a hash on-chain is only a few bytes, costing a few cents. Verification? Just a few seconds. The certificate is permanently valid unless you actively revoke it.
@SignOfficial is not just talk; TokenTable has already processed over 4 billion dollars in real distributions, and the Sierra Leone resident ID runs entirely on-chain. This is not a PPT; it’s a real implementation.
Ordinary people now have a tool for "low-cost self-certification" for the first time. No need to rely on others, no waiting, and no being cheated.
This isn’t a grand narrative; it’s a simple necessity: I don’t want to pay a middleman every time I need to prove myself. Whoever reduces the cost of trust is the real infrastructure. #Sign地缘政治基建
