Explainers

As registries proliferate across digital systems, authority has become the defining factor that separates reference infrastructure from simple data repositories. This article examines the institutional, legal, and governance conditions that make registries authoritative and explains why authority is essential for interoperability and programmable finance.

Financial systems are increasingly embedding rules directly into infrastructure rather than enforcing them after transactions occur. This article examines why programmability is emerging as a structural response to scale, complexity, and regulatory demands, and why trust registries are essential to making programmable finance reliable and accountable.

Every society relies on registries to establish trust. A land registry shows who owns a piece of property. A professional registry...

Registries have always been instruments of trust. Land deeds, professional licences, and company filings established ownership and...