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Insights from the field — AI, digital assets, and enterprise infrastructure.
25 posts
Exploring the Ethics Gap of AI-Assisted Data Workflows in the Humanitarian and Development Sectors
AI-driven digital transformation in humanitarian work is outpacing the ethical frameworks that govern it. This post examines the gap between anonymisation, consent, and the realities of processing vulnerable populations' data through third-party AI systems.
The Agent Engineering Standard: A 13-Category Specification for AI Systems
Every category traces back to something that broke. Here's what broke, what we built, and how we enforce it.
When AI Operates Your Infrastructure: Why Every Control Must Be Structural
An AI coding assistant deleted 2.5 years of production data in seconds. Every root cause was preventable — but not with the controls most teams have in place. Here is a five-layer model to help make destructive actions structurally impossible.
Agentic System Governance: What the Frameworks Don't Tell You
This deep dive covers how we approach compliance, as an artefact package — a structured, queryable, tamper-evident record of every AI action.
Your AI Agent Is Costing You More Than Your Developer. Here's Why.
A poorly built AI agent processing 500 tasks a day can cost more than a well-built one processing 5,000. Three architectural problems — uncontrolled tool loops, bloated context windows, and missing prompt caching — explain the gap. Here's what they cost and how to fix them.
Our New Research Report : ERC-3643 Tokens as Collateral for OTC Derivatives
This paper explores whether ERC-3643 compliant stablecoins can serve as eligible collateral for non-regulatory variation margin in institutional OTC derivative operations.
Agentic GTM with PhantomBuster: What We Learned Building an Intent-Based Lead Prospecting Pipeline
The PhantomBuster API is powerful, underdocumented, and full of operational surprises. Here are the lessons from building an automation that orchestrates Phantoms to find high-intent B2B prospects on LinkedIn.
Building Enterprise-Grade AI Agents: Eight Practices That Separate Production Systems from Prototypes
The gap between an AI agent prototype and a production system is engineering discipline. Eight concrete practices — from two-phase architecture to token budget enforcement — illustrated with real production code.
AI Agent Worked Great in the Demo and Broke in Week Two.
The demo was impressive. Three weeks later the agent was switched off. This is the most common outcome for AI agent deployments — not because AI doesn't work, but because demos hide every problem that surfaces in production. Here's what breaks and why.
Our New Research Report : ERC-3643 Tokens for Derivative Collateralization
Our report explores how compliant tokenized collateral can improve bilateral OTC trading by embedding regulatory compliance directly into the token infrastructure while enabling automated settlement and risk management through smart contracts.
QX Institutional Monthly Roundup: DLT in Finance, Stablecoins, and the Tokenization Market
QX Institutional August 2024 Roundup - covering the latest developments in DLT and blockchain in finance, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization.
CESR Swaps: How Smart Money Will Navigate Ethereum Staking Rate Volatility
An explainer on the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR) and its emerging role as an institutional interest rate benchmark — covering swap mechanics, early market activity, and the prospect of an Ethereum staking yield curve.
QX Institutional Monthly Roundup: DLT in Finance, Stablecoins, and the Tokenization Market
QX Institutional July 2024 Roundup - covering the latest developments in DLT and blockchain in finance, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization.
QX Institutional Monthly Roundup: DLT in Finance, Stablecoins, and the Tokenization Market
QX Institutional June 2024 Roundup - covering the latest developments in DLT and blockchain in finance, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization.
QX Institutional Monthly Roundup: DLT in Finance, Stablecoin Safety, and the Tokenization Market
QX Institutional May 2024 Roundup - covering the latest developments in DLT and blockchain in finance, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization.
Rating Stablecoins: How to Separate the Safe from the Dangerous in a $150 Billion Market
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with Garett Jones, Chief Economist at Bluechip - discussing rating framework for stablecoins and covering bankruptcy remoteness, the Red Flag List, algorithmic stablecoin risks, and how CBDCs compare.
Digitising Trade Finance: How Blockchain Is Addressing the $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with TradeFinex, and Tradeteq on why previous trade finance networks failed, how tokenisation delivers immediate value, and why the secondary market is the real unlock for institutional capital.
Understanding DeFi Risk: How to Identify, Assess, and Mitigate the Risks of Decentralised Finance
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with CoinChange and the EEA on DeFi risk frameworks — covering smart contract risk, decentralisation risk, the EEA’s peer-reviewed guidelines, and how institutional due diligence works in practice.
How Real-World Asset Tokenization Is Redefining Real Estate Investment
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with BrickMark founder Stefan Rind on six years of real estate tokenization — covering regulated digital exchanges, the SDX hybrid model, ERC-3643, and the path to compliant DeFi.
Ethereum as Enterprise Infrastructure: What the 2024 Business Readiness Report Tells Us About the Road Ahead
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance exploring the 2024 Business Readiness Report — covering Layer 2 scalability, account abstraction, real-world asset tokenisation, and the SME accessibility gap.
Empowering Interoperability in Tokenization with Decentralized Identity
A recap of the QualitaX webinar exploring how the DITO framework from Polygon ID and DigiShares is building reusable KYC infrastructure for tokenisation — using zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable credentials, and a publicly governed identity schema.
How Financial Institutions Are Leveraging the Stellar Network for Real-World Asset Tokenization
A recap of the QualitaX webinar exploring why financial institutions like Franklin Templeton and WisdomTree are choosing Stellar for tokenised fund issuance, stablecoin payments, and compliant real-world asset distribution.
The Universal Digital Payments Network: Infrastructure for Regulated Digital Currency Payments
A recap of the QualitaX webinar exploring the UDPN — a blockchain-based infrastructure for regulated digital currency payments, already running PoCs with Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered.
Blockchain for Real-Time Treasury Management: How Banks Are Moving from Experimentation to Production
A recap of the QualitaX webinar featuring Adhara on how blockchain-based platforms are enabling real-time intraday liquidity management, cross-chain atomic settlement, and the emergence of a digital capital markets ecosystem.
Pioneering Digital Transformation with SLA Automation & Blockchain in Telecom
A recap of the QualitaX webinar with MEF Forum, Sage Management, and Dr. Andreas Freund exploring the use of blockchain and zero knowledge technologies for SLA management in the Telecom industry.