sigtrail.NEAR Chain Signatures · research workbenchRead the thesis ↗

An investigation, not an adoption score

Is chain abstraction becoming a platform?

Real use is visible. Platform breadth remains unresolved. Here, even the direction of a short activity comparison depends on what we count.

NEAR mainnetv1.signer10 & 11 Nov 2026 · 00:00–01:00 UTCSaved, selected cohorts · not a live trend

The analytical lens

Same records. Different questions.

What counts?

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Direct signing request receipts

Distinct account + input groups Additional receipts with repeated inputs

Bars start at zero and keep the same scale when the counting lens changes.

Inspect the measurement

Inspect repeated signing inputs

Each receipt is real. Grouping identical inputs answers a different question; it does not make the original workload count wrong.

Initiating account / input10 Nov11 NovInspect

Facts, interpretation, alternatives

What does this establish?

Observed

The activity signal is definition-sensitive.

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Grouping uses the initiating account and the complete decoded signing arguments. It does not group by account name or guess which users belong together.

Interpretation

Workload is not platform breadth.

The shared signing service is being used. These two post hoc one-hour cohorts do not identify independent operators, establish sustained adoption, or measure destination execution.

A successful platform could also be concentrated: one integration can serve many users. Concentration alone does not refute the platform thesis.

Alternative explanations

A repeated input has more than one explanation.

It may reflect a retry, an intentional repeat, or application logic. Some same-input pairs contain an “Already signed” callback error; other pairs have no recorded failure. We do not classify all repeats as retries.

Different time-of-hour mixes, automation and incomplete indexing can also affect the comparison. Change the matched window to inspect that sensitivity.

Coverage, attribution, and what is unknown

Exact population

Both cohorts are selected by parent-transaction block and UTC timestamp. Receipt creation and execution may occur later. They are not two full days or a representative monthly sample.

Source: FastNear’s indexed account history and complete returned traces, with archived NEAR boundary blocks. Returned parent sets and emitted receipt coverage are verified; completeness against an independent full node is not established.

Attribution stays bounded

omni.bridge.near has a documented Omni Bridge contract role. That does not prove independent ownership or a user count. Architectural bridge-family relationships are treated as heuristic grouping, not common control.

Operator identities for fast-auth.near, tx-bench.near, the kernel accounts and other initiators remain unverified in this study. Names and periodic activity do not prove test traffic or artificial demand.

Input equality is not intent equality. Signature request, returned signature data and destination settlement are different stages. No execution rate is inferred.

Complete collection and counting rules ↗

Make the result yours

Re-run it from the raw records.

The contribution is a reproducible measurement sensitivity—not a new explorer, an adoption score, or a prediction.

npm test
npm run rebuild
npm run independent-audit
npm run investigation-check
npm run serve

Offline path: Node.js 20+ and Python 3. No install, API key, wallet, or chain transaction needed.