How do we actually know who or what to trust online and onchain? How do we decentralize more than just money and assets? A primitive has been missing - attestations.

Attestations are digital signatures on structured data, enabling entities like smart contracts, individuals, or businesses to verifiably state facts about anything, i.e. "I attest this information is valid". They are foundational for building trust in both online and onchain experiences.

They significantly speed up the development time for builders who need to verify and rely on signed data (attestations). For example, imagine if you wanted to create a land registry. You'd need to write a custom contract that would allow the government to sign and register a parcel of land. It would be fully custom. With EAS you'd simply register a schema for "Land Registry" and then any entity can make attestations on it. And others could then compose ontop of the attestation for asset transfers and much more.