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Security 8 min read

A Practical Threat Model for Smart Contract Engagements

Audits find bugs; threat modelling prevents whole classes of them. We walk through how we frame trust boundaries, privileged roles, and economic attacks before a single line of contract code is written.

Adrian Vance Oct 28, 2025

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DeFi 7 min read

Tokenising Real Assets: The Compliance Layer Is the Hard Part

Minting a token that represents a regulated asset is easy. Making it transfer only between allow-listed wallets, support forced redemptions, and reconcile to the cent with an off-chain administrator is where the real engineering lives.

Adrian Vance Aug 21, 2025

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