Research

Technology judgments, theories, and working methods.

A public notebook for evaluating new technologies, testing operating theories, and making methods reusable.

deepDiveblockchainAug 26, 2026

Designing idempotent payment APIs as an end-to-end contract

A payment retry is safe only when one client intent keeps the same durable identity across API acceptance, asynchronous workers, chain submission, webhooks, reconciliation, and operator recovery.

Distributed SystemsIdempotencyPayment Reliability

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deepDiveblockchainAug 26, 2026

Orchestrating treasury without collapsing ledger, reserve, transfer, and settlement

Treasury workflows remain explainable when accounting truth, available funds, movement execution, and external settlement keep separate records while one orchestrator coordinates their evidence.

Distributed SystemsPayment OrchestrationPayment Reliability

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deepDiveaiAug 26, 2026

Separating planning and execution in agent systems

Operable agents need a reviewable plan, effect-bound approvals, durable execution state, checkpoint-safe retries, and independent evidence of completion.

Agent SystemsDurable ExecutionHuman in the LoopVerification

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