BlockClaim matters now because the world has quietly crossed a threshold and.

BlockClaim matters now because the world has quietly crossed a threshold and most people have not yet noticed what it means. For centuries the things that carried value were physical and therefore slow. Land, metals, machines, even written contracts were all anchored in matter and required significant effort to form, move, and protect. The twenty first century dissolved that stability. Value has become informational, portable, and almost weightless. At the same time trust has become fragile. Institutions that once guaranteed truth through authority or tradition no longer command the confidence they once held. In other eras when truth was fragile people reverted to local knowledge or the wisdom of elders. Today people turn to networks and the networks themselves are flooded with noise. Everyone is speaking but almost nothing is anchored. Claims that shape reality move faster than verification. Whether through deliberate manipulation or simple acceleration, the difference does not matter. What matters is that the patterns shaping society now appear in the informational layer long before they appear in the world of matter. This creates new vulnerabilities and new opportunities and it demands a new structure of trust. – Rico Roho (BlockClaim: How Claims, Proofs, and Value Signatures Work)