What's going on these days? BTC has hit the bottom once again. Okay, I admit I couldn't help it and bought some more at the bottom!

Speaking of which, last month a project team wanted to help with promotion and told me, “We have a grand vision and will definitely not run away.” I said, send over the lock-up agreement for me to take a look. The other party fell silent for ten minutes and then shot back, “The team promises to accompany for the long run.”

Accompanying. This term makes me react reflexively now— the last person who told me they would accompany ran away in less than two months, the founder canceled their Twitter, and the Discord was renamed to “XX Project Discussion Group.” Where do you go to find them? They didn’t even post a real photo at that time, who do you look for?

So when I saw YZi Labs investing 55 million USD in Sign a couple of days ago, my first reaction was not “another financing news,” but rather— these investment guys have also been educated by “verbal aspirations,” right?

Just take a look at the TokenTable of Sign. What it does, to put it simply, is this: it takes the phrase “We will lock up, you can rest assured” out of the chat records and welds it onto the contract. Do VCs want to unlock early? The code won’t allow it. Does the team want to change the release time? They can’t. You don’t need to trust anyone’s character; you just need to trust whether the code has bugs or not.

Some people complain that SBT cannot be sold, thinking it's just for show. But think about it— a “identity certification” that can be transferred at will is just an avatar accessory; today it supports you, and tomorrow it may switch to another company. What is this SBT from Sign? It’s the on-chain resume you’ve accumulated from how many nights you’ve stayed up in this ecosystem, how many valid suggestions you’ve made, and how many times you’ve helped revise documents—2-6. When such people speak in the community, does the project party dare not take it seriously?

There’s a saying in my hometown: “Words that sound good are not as good as laying the facts on the table.” In Web3, there’s not even enough table; it has to go on-chain.

In the future, if anyone tells you “we have a grand vision and will not run away,” just throw the Sign link over: Come on, let’s lock the vision in the contract, and then we can continue chatting. @SignOfficial $SIGN #Sign地缘政治基建