In the crypto scene, a battlefield of average "vision", the Sign community has forcefully turned Web3 into a large-scale online carnival. They conquered Twitter with orange glasses memes, created a blockchain imperial examination system with SBT (Soul-Bound Token), and even got the Sierra Leone government to become a blockchain identity certificate issuer - this operation can be seen as "rural surrounding urban" in the Web3 era.
[The rest of the translation follows the same approach, maintaining the original structure and translating all text while preserving the <> tags.]- A community vote suspected of vote manipulation, damaging the "fairness" persona
- SignPass's landing in an African country is questioned for potential data monopoly
- Core protocol code remains not fully open-sourced
These issues are like the Sword of Damocles, potentially triggering a trust avalanche. After all, in the Web3 world, stories of dragon-slaying youths turning into dragons are played out every day.
V. Revelation: Web3 Entrepreneurship's "Anti-Consensus" Sample
Sign's story taught the industry three "counter-intuitive" lessons:
1. The Reverse Philosophy of Earning Money Before Financing
While peers were burning money to buy traffic, Sign sustained the entire team through TokenTable's annual revenue, proving that Web3 can be profitable, just that most people are too incompetent.
2. Community Building's "Rural Encirclement of the City"
Without high-profile concept hype, instead cutting in through avatar changes and meme-style "grassroots operations", turning cold start into a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
3. Regulatory Cooperation's "Join If You Can't Beat"
While others were still playing guerrilla warfare with the SEC, Sign directly helped the government develop a blockchain governance system, truly mastering the "learn from the enemy" strategy.
In an industry filled with fraud and bubbles, Sign's existence is like a torch in a dark forest - proving that Web3 can have idealistic passion while making money. As for how far this orange empire can go, perhaps as Yan Xin said in the AMA: "We are transforming blockchain from a technical toy into a social operating system, and the game has just begun."
"When you see more and more people wearing orange glasses on Twitter, don't doubt - this is the Web3 era's 'V for Vendetta', only this revolution doesn't use explosives, but smart contracts."
