Selected RFP:

Settlement, Reconciliation, and Compliance Efficiency in Programmable Financial

This RFP seeks research proposals that rigorously examine where, how, and under what conditions programmable settlement infrastructure can reduce operational, reconciliation, and compliance frictions relative to traditional financial market plumbing. Rather than assuming inherent efficiency gains, this track invites work that disentangles which inefficiencies are structural, which are regulatory, and which are genuinely addressable through cryptographic finality and shared state. We are interested in how programmable systems enable predictable, enforceable, and selectively controllable governance structures, and what this implies for firms, collectives, and public institutions.