Deep dives, design notes, and progress updates. We publish what we ship and what we're still working on.
Twelve weeks into the audit. Most findings are mitigations, not redesigns. Here's what changed under the hood and why it doesn't change the published spec.
We could have gone anywhere. Colombia is where the friction is real, the diaspora corridor is concentrated, and merchants are ready to test something better than what they have now.
Stake-only consensus rewards capital. PoB rewards capacity. We walk through the six-step anti-spoofing pipeline and the failure modes it catches before they ever reach the chain.
Algorithmic stables die in correlated drawdowns. Hard-backed instruments don't. The 1.5× coverage rule, where it's enforced in the protocol, and what would have to break for it to fail.
Block-lattice + stake-weighted quorum BFT. Why finality is bounded by network round-trip, not block time, and what that means for merchants at point-of-sale.
Why Bitcoin is a great reserve and a bad payment rail. Why USDC is a great payment rail and a bad reserve. Why splitting them is the only way to get both.
Devnet served its purpose. Testnet runs the full PoB pipeline with public validators. Faucet, explorer, status page, and docs are open today.