Yeah... i keep running into this strange gap in Sign Protocol where nothing actually feels complete until the moment you ask for it
like… not earlier, not when the attestation is created on $SIGN , not when the data is stored, not even when it moves across chains
only when something queries it
and that's when it clicks a bit wrong
because the claim isn't sitting anywhere as a full thing
inside Sign it's already split. schema shaped it into something decodable, hooks filtered it before it could even exist, and whatever survived becomes an attestation… but that attestation isn't the full payload either. part of it is just structure and proof, while the actual data might be somewhere else entirely, off-chain, Arweave or whatever storage fits the flow
so even at that point it's incomplete... whatever.
and then another layer comes in later and quietly fixes that incompleteness. @SignOfficial SignScan doesn't just “show” the claim, it rebuilds it. pulls pieces from chain, pulls references from storage, aligns formats, makes it readable like it was always one object
but it wasn't
and if that same thing has to exist somewhere else, another network, another context, it goes through a different kind of alignment again. TEEs confirm it, threshold signatures agree on it, not recreating the original decision, just making sure this version can survive there too
so the claim keeps existing in parts
until the moment you ask for it
and then suddenly it looks whole
“the claim only becomes complete when it is needed”
and everything downstream just trusts that version
TokenTable doesn't care where the data lived, eligibility logic doesn’t reopen how it was shaped, they just read what shows up at query time and move
which works… obviously it works
but it also means nothing inside Sign is ever fully sitting there as one thing
it’s just… aligned long enough for you to use it