Briefings on blockchain infrastructure for the C-suite.
Written for executives who need to understand this category in operational terms — not crypto terms. We publish when we have something useful to say. Each briefing is reviewed periodically; the date you see is the version you read.
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Briefings are organized by the kind of question they answer, not the job title that asks it.
How to talk to your board about blockchain without sounding like a crypto pitch
The hardest part of bringing blockchain infrastructure to a board is vocabulary. Every word that signals seriousness to an engineer signals risk to a director. Here is the translation layer.
What MiCA Article 22 actually means for your stablecoin treasury
MiCA's Article 22 sets reserve, audit, and redemption requirements for stablecoin issuers operating in the EU. For corporates holding stablecoins as treasury, the second-order effects are larger than the issuers' compliance costs.
The procurement escrow pattern, and why most operators underuse it
Timed-deposit escrow is the most operationally valuable on-chain primitive — and the least understood at the C-suite level. It replaces the supplier-trust-and-PO-arbitration cycle with deterministic settlement on delivery.
Twenty questions to ask before signing with a stablecoin payments vendor
Stablecoin payments vendors are proliferating. Most diligence checklists were written for card processors and miss the questions that matter. This is the list we use.
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We do not write to be read by venture capitalists or crypto-native founders. We write to be read by a CFO at a regional conglomerate, a CEO at an asset manager, a treasurer at a real estate group. The vocabulary, the scope, and the assumptions are tuned to that reader.
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