Field Notes

Notes from the protocol team.

Engineering, governance, and ecosystem updates. Short on marketing, long on substance.

2026-04-30

Why we shipped the economy with prices set to zero

Trust is not paywalled. Building the full settlement mechanism with launch prices set to zero lets us preserve transaction mechanics while keeping the human and machine trust layer accessible.

2026-04-12

Validator attestation, the alpha way

A practical writeup on what hardware attestation we are checking, what we are not yet checking, and how the observation period catches surprises before quorum.

2026-03-22

Receipts after revocation

Trust receipts are evidence of the past, not predictions of the future. We explain why revocation cascades through the credential graph but does not erase already-issued receipts.