Research archive / 2026
Field notes from adversarial systems research.
Technical observations about trust, failure and recovery in systems that coordinate digital value.
Replay Resistance in Cross-Chain Messaging
A practical model for message uniqueness across domains, validator epochs and delayed execution.
Validator Quorums Under Adversarial Conditions
Why threshold arithmetic alone cannot describe the security of an operational validator set.
Operational Security of Multisignature Custody
Examining the policy and operational systems that surround cryptographic authorization.
Failure Modes in Upgradeable Protocols
A review of administrative, initialization and state-transition risks in mutable systems.
Emergency Controls Without Centralized Custody
Design patterns for bounded emergency action without unrestricted control over user assets.
Transaction Reconstruction After Protocol Exploits
Methods for building a reproducible technical timeline from on-chain and infrastructure evidence.
Key Rotation in Distributed Validator Networks
Security invariants for changing authorization state across independently operated validators.
Securing RPC Infrastructure Against Privilege Escalation
Tracing identity, method access and upstream authority through multi-tenant blockchain gateways.