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Notes from the team

Engineering, operations and regulation, written by the people doing the work.

Security18 August 2026· 7 min

What MPC actually guarantees, and what it does not

Multi-party computation removes the single private key. It does not remove the need for policy, and conflating the two causes real incidents.

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Payments4 August 2026· 6 min

Cut-off times are a product constraint, not a fact of nature

Most payment products are shaped around when banks stop processing. Removing that constraint changes more of the design than teams expect.

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Operations22 July 2026· 5 min

A policy engine nobody reads is a policy nobody follows

Rules enforced at signing time only help if an operator can predict them. Notes on writing policies that stay legible as they grow.

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Agentic9 July 2026· 8 min

Giving an agent money without giving it a blank cheque

Autonomous payments need bounded authority. Mandates, scoped credentials and escalation paths are the difference between automation and exposure.

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Finance27 June 2026· 9 min

Reconciling an onchain balance with a general ledger

Chains and ledgers disagree about time, finality and identity. Here is where the differences bite during a period close.

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Tokenization11 June 2026· 6 min

The tokenized asset lifecycle after issuance day

Issuance gets the attention. Coupons, transfers, restrictions and redemptions are where the operational work actually accumulates.

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Custody29 May 2026· 10 min

Four custody models, and who each one is really for

Self, qualified, delegated and hybrid custody trade control against obligation in different ways. A practical comparison.

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Security14 May 2026· 5 min

Why simulation belongs before the signature

A signed transaction is final. Anything you want to know about its effects has to be known beforehand, which changes the architecture.

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Engineering30 April 2026· 7 min

What breaks first when you create a million wallets

Wallet creation looks like a solved problem until a campaign lands. Notes on the bottlenecks that appear in order.

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