Momentum Research

The Research

How institutions operate across jurisdictions: how rules combine, how obligations change, and how claims are priced, cleared, and resolved.

2026 The Research Programme The ideas connecting the papers, from institutional rules to financial claims and dispute resolution.

2026 How Compliance Composes How requirements from several jurisdictions combine, with a record of which rules apply and who decides.
2026 Lex A language for legal rules, exceptions, authority, and changes in law.
2026 Op: Compliance-Carrying Operations Typed instructions for institutional operations, from authorization through payment, interruption, and resumption.
2026 The Claim as Primitive A common language for financial claims: what determines the payoff, when it is evaluated, and what must be paid.
2026 Admissible Obligation Transitions How claims split, combine, and move between programs while preserving what is owed.
2026 Recourse Dispute resolution from the claim and evidence through the award, execution, and recovery record.
2026 Recourse: Preserving Authority from Legal Claim to Execution Practitioner engagement, court and arbitration routes, evidence, payment and execution records, with their guarantees and implementation limits.

2025 Sovereign Economies on a Decentralized Network Sovereign virtual machines for AI agents, polycentric consensus and selective recognition.
2025 The Institutional World Model Continual learning across sovereign virtual machines.
2026 Accession Networks How common accession instruments can establish a network of recognition in place of pairwise negotiation.
2026 Event-Collect BFT Consensus for transactions whose execution depends on external events and evidence.
2026 One-Way Coupling of Prediction Markets to Automated Market Makers How prediction-market signals can adjust automated prices, and how fees and trade limits control manipulation.
2026 Central Counterparty Risk in Automated Markets Clearing resources when liquidation moves prices: margin, cash timing, loss allocation, and settlement-asset feedback.
2026 Parlay Identification of Ising Couplings Recovering the dependence encoded in joint market prices.
2026 Allocated Title A register for identified physical gold, carrying title and obligations through transfer, delivery, shortages, and returns.

2026 Content-Addressed Identity Institutional identifiers derived from content, with explicit records of change.
2026 Defeasible Rules Evaluating rules, exceptions, and competing priorities.
2026 Aggregate Safety Detecting violations that emerge across a sequence of otherwise admissible transactions.
2026 The Compliance Passport A portable record of evaluated requirements and the evidence a receiving jurisdiction checks.
2026 Route Coherence for Jurisdictional Corridors Checking whether different routes between jurisdictions produce the same compliance state.
2026 The Observation Corpus Turning operational records into reusable evidence for institutional decisions.
2026 Intelligent Assets A design study of financial instruments that carry rules and compliance state across jurisdictions.

2026 Mass Technical Specification Architecture, contracts, workflows, and developer and operator references.
2026 Technical Architecture Brief The integrated design for Mass, Moxie, and Recourse.

2026 Background Papers and Notes Broader institutional models and focused studies behind the programme.
2026 Writing Essays and notes by Raeez Lorgat.