Signet · How it works

How Signet works

A verifiable career record for smart contract developers, built on Stellar.

The problem

Smart contract developers have no portable record of their work. GitHub portfolios are unverifiable — anyone can fork code and claim authorship. Resumes are claims without proof. And when capital flows through a contract, the question “who built this, and what's their track record?” has no good answer.

The thesis

Every contract deployed to a public chain is cryptographically tied to the wallet that signed for it. That binding is unforgeable. Signet turns that binding into a career record: every contract a developer has shipped, the activity it's seen, the outcomes it's had — aggregated into one verifiable profile.

What's live today

The demo profiles at /p/{handle} currently render synthetic data on Stellar testnet to demonstrate the interface — invocations, function calls, token balance changes. In production each profile shows a real wallet's Soroban activity pulled from the public ledger via the Horizon API. The handle-to-wallet mapping is curated today; cryptographic binding via the on-chain Identity Registry is planned for Phase 2.

What's coming

On-chain identity registry (Soroban). A cryptographic binding of profile to wallet, written on-chain so anyone can verify independently. No Signet server in the trust chain.Indexer service. Continuous monitoring of registered wallets, capturing deployments and invocations in near real-time with full historical coverage.Reputation primitives. Peer attestations, outcome tracking (TVL handled, incidents, bug bounty payouts), and integrations with audit firms, grant programs, and hiring tools.Public SDK. Lets any external tool — a wallet, a grant application form, an insurance protocol — query a developer's Signet record and use it as input.

Why Stellar

Stellar's institutional and RWA positioning means real, regulated capital flows through Soroban contracts — MoneyGram, Franklin Templeton, Circle. On chains where serious money is at stake, the question of who built a contract isn't academic. Signet makes that question answerable.