Crypto to billions. Introducing Sovereign Infrastructure for Global Nations (S.I.G.N.), a blockchain stack built for sovereign nations. sign.global/whitepaper.pdf

The race for Web3's capital is on, and Hong Kong intends to win it. 🇭🇰 Hosted #IOSG × HK LegCo · Founder Tea #1 this week. Our founding partner @jocyiosg brought together 16 top Web3 founders at Cyberport with the Hon. Duncan Chiu, HK Legislator. Across four tracks: → RWA @AssetoFinance,@DigiFTTech, Anchored, @StableStock → Public Markets @RedotPay, @MicrobitCapital, Boyaa Interactive, @SoSoValueCrypto → Infrastructure @alt_layer, @brevis_zk, @Conflux_Network, @Sign → DeFi @SynFuturesDefi, @dForcenet, Unified Labs 6 hours of unfiltered truth, centered on one question: "Why HK over Singapore?" The discussion covered HK's strengths (financial depth, legal system, location), where it still falls short (compliance costs, licensing, banking access), and concrete asks to government: tiered regulation, an innovation sandbox, lighter licensing, and a clear path for digital asset trusts (DAT). Duncan set this as the first consultation for Hong Kong's first-ever 5-Year Web3 Plan (2027–2032), reaching the Chief Executive's Office by end of June. In his words: "I hope to submit these recommendations and have them included in Hong Kong's first-ever 5-Year Plan — shaping the city's Web3 direction for the next five years."

Market volatility pulled me out of quiet busy work mode. We have seen strong liquidity from Middle East OTC desks and South Korean CEXs (currently #6 on Upbit by trading vol ppl start to see the value of our work: 1. war time everyone realizes we are still living in a physical nation world, and sovereignty suddenly becomes very real 2. the world is splitting into different camps, and they want different systems: CBDCs, stablecoins, SWIFT, this is not about arguing which system is better but which system can you plug into safely and won’t be excluded (we’re building stablecoin-backed payment rails and CBDC for middle eastern and central asian nations 3. central banks are starting to buy crypto 4. centralized systems exposes its vulnerabilities during the war, imagine a bank’s server got boomed and the ledger is gone (happened once last year in Tehran many work need to be done, after its done the world would not be the same.

Sharing the verification flow demo of @Sign's Verifiable Credential system from our tech team standup today, presented by my Cornell alumni @lazytitan62: in the demo he shows an end user opens their phone wallet that holds the verifiable credentials, reveals and verifies his Cornell degree 4.0 GPA. (Diploma's the light example, such credentials can be expand to healthcare records, real estates, licenses, etc) When designing such credential system for nations, we need to think about: Who decides what you prove, to whom, and what gets logged. Today a lot of system flow: verifier asks -> central system answers -> data copies, logs, spreads. Every check creates visibility you didn't choose. Sign's verifiable credentials invert it. With our system: issuer signs once, holder stores, and verifier confirms signature revocation locally. States get scalable services without single points of failure and citizens get control over disclosure. We are building a lot of cool systems with our clients, I will share more about what $SIGN is building, and our progress with our community.