The open knowledge base from the team that builds the rails. How qualified custody actually works, what a compliance gate really is, how permissioned tokens enforce eligibility on-chain — written for the people who have to defend these decisions in a diligence review, not just nod along in a demo.
Sequenced reading paths. Each article stands alone; the track gives it order.
For allocators, counsel, and operators new to the space. No prerequisites.
For issuers and program managers taking an asset to institutional markets.
For engineers building on or integrating with RWA infrastructure.
Deep, citable, and honest about trade-offs — including the ones that don't favor us.
Qualified custodians, trust charters, MPC vendors, and the marketing fog between them — how to tell who actually holds what.
Pre-settlement enforcement vs. post-trade reporting — the architectural difference and why regulators increasingly care.
ERC-3643, identity claims, transfer restrictions, and recovery — how a security token stays a security under scrutiny.
The diligence checklist — including every question that's uncomfortable for us. Use it on Unykorn too.
A sample of the full glossary — each term links to its long-form entry.
These read like engineering rules because they are. Every product on unykorn.ai is built against this list.
Eligibility is enforced before value moves. If a transfer fails the check, it never executes — there is nothing to unwind, reverse, or explain.
The client holds a key. The qualified custodian holds a key. The architecture — not a policy document — makes unilateral movement impossible.
No floating point in any money path. No wall-clock dependence, no unseeded randomness in settlement. The same inputs always produce the same state.
Every decision and transfer is signed into an append-only trail that clients can export and verify independently — including after we're gone.
We are paid to run infrastructure, never on volume — so our incentives can't drift toward throughput over safety.
If it isn't live, it says "In development" — on the site, in the deck, and in the data room. A diligence team should never discover a gap we didn't disclose first.
The commercial platform lives at unykorn.ai. Developer documentation and the x402 engine live under unykorn.ai/docs.
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