Verify
Wallet ↔ account proof
A handle can be copied in an afternoon; control of a wallet cannot. Linking the two makes impersonation expensive instead of free.
- We give you a phrase that is unique to you and valid for an hour.
- You sign it with your wallet. A signature, not a transaction: it costs nothing and moves nothing.
- You post the signature from the account you are linking. Only its owner can do that.
- Both halves have to match: the signature must recover to the wallet, and the post must come from the handle.
Where it stopsIt proves that one person controls this wallet and this account, on this day. It says nothing about who they are offline and nothing about their audience — those are different questions with different evidence, and we will not let one badge pretend to answer all three.
We write once, when this opens. The address is used for that and for nothing else — no newsletter, no list anyone else can buy.