I was writing a post the other day and it occurred to me that I did not have a good way to really prove "these words are mine". Fortunately, I co-founded a blockchain development company and have the tools at my fingertips to solve these problems!

And now you do, too!

I made a blog tool that integrates Cardano natively via WordPress/PHP and allows you to one-click sign your blog posts with information directly from your server and your Cardano wallet! Cool, right?! This means that as soon as you publish your new recipe, blog post on tech, or next killer short story, you can directly sign the post right on the back end of your WordPress site, using the site itself as authentication!

How does it work?

Well, for you, the user, ideally very easily. I tried to make it as seamless and thoughtless as possible. Transactions on Cardano are cheap and can contain a lot of metadata. Another key benefit of Cardano is the inherent custodial ownership component. Unlike an EVM chain, a UTXO chain like Cardano or Bitcoin actually sends you something and provides receipts! Just like shopping with cash at the grocery store, you get change and a receipt.

The blogging tool creates a server-side Cardano wallet that you can fund with a few bucks, and then when you publish your post you simply click "Sign Post with Cardano" and BAM—done. No wallet to connect, no typing of complex words.

How did I do this?

A few weeks back I made a wallet generator and signing utility called PHP-Cardano that integrates right into WordPress.

I combined the wallet generator, the signer, and the Anvil API (for transaction building and submission to chain) to make something that really feels like a native tool (because it is) and behaves in line with what you would expect from WordPress plugins!

Check out my proofs below—I wrote this, I have the receipts.

Check it out for yourself:

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