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Block Infrastructure perspectives on trust and transaction infrastructure.

Long-form papers on the architectural shifts shaping regulated finance — KYC reuse, Travel Rule at scale, compliance-conditional settlement, network coordination.

Publishing programme — first paper Q3 2026

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Q3 2026 Forthcoming Identity · KYC reuse

Reusable KYC and the End of Verification Duplication

An architectural argument for treating KYC as reusable infrastructure rather than per-institution operational cost. The paper describes the attestation, audit and settlement primitives required to make verification reuse work at institutional scale, and what changes when those primitives exist.

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Q4 2026 Forthcoming Compliance · Travel Rule

Travel Rule at Scale: Multi-Protocol Compliance for Digital Asset Transfers

A practical examination of the FATF Travel Rule market in 2026: where the protocol fragmentation lives, how counterparty discovery breaks down at scale, and what a coordinated layer looks like in practice. Written for VASP compliance leads, regulators and integrators.

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Q1 2027 Forthcoming Settlement · Compliance-conditional finality

Compliance-Conditional Settlement: An Architecture for DvP at Institutional Scale

Settlement finality and compliance state are typically reconciled, not coordinated. This paper sets out the architectural conditions under which they can complete in the same atomic operation, and what that does to the cost structure of cross-asset DvP.

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