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The opening paper develops the entity, its rights, and the conditions for acting across jurisdictions.

2026 One Entity in Many Jurisdictions Rights, shared resources, and composed compliance for an entity recognized by several jurisdictions.

The Programme

Fifteen formal papers, beginning with the opening paper above. They connect institutional authority and compliance to obligations, markets, clearing, title, and dispute resolution. Each paper states its assumptions, proved results, and remaining questions. Read the programme overview.

2026 How Compliance Composes Combining evaluated rules while retaining source evidence, applicability disagreements, continuing duties, and each authority’s local decision.
2026 Programmable Institutions Current authority and retained evidence govern institutional changes. Finite workflows preserve safety and completion under explicit environmental assumptions.
2026 Lex A rule logic with priority, legal time, authority, and human decisions. Bounded source proofs distinguish established results from full-language obligations.
2026 Op: Compliance-Carrying Operations Typed instructions preserve authority, unpaid obligations, and shared reservations through partial payment, interruption, and authenticated resumption.
2026 The Sovereign Jurisdiction Network Independent authorities reuse signed evidence while preserving local decisions, current-use conditions, continuing duties, and attributable histories.
2026 Accession Networks The conditions under which unilateral accession filings establish the same relations and terms as bilateral negotiation.
2026 The Claim as Primitive A finite payoff language separates observed outcomes, amounts owed, payment evidence, and market pricing.
2026 Admissible Obligation Transitions Authorized changes preserve obligations, payment attribution, and unfinished instructions when records split, combine, or move between programs.
2026 Event-Collect BFT Consensus over event-dependent execution preserves unresolved evidence and payments under explicit fault, availability, cryptographic, and provider assumptions.
2026 One-Way Coupling of Prediction Markets to Automated Market Makers Prediction signals adjust automated prices. Fees, trade limits, and sponsor funding bound manipulation while retaining a response to forecasts.
2026 Central Counterparty Risk in Automated Markets Liquidation price impact, loss allocation, timely cash, and settlement-asset feedback determine the resources needed for clearing.
2026 Parlay Identification of Ising Couplings Joint event prices identify pair dependence under stated observation conditions. Statistical and numerical bounds distinguish pricing laws from physical probabilities.
2026 Allocated Title Identified metal, payments, and continuing obligations remain accounted for through transfers, partial delivery, shortages, and returns.
2026 Recourse A dispute record distinguishes awards, authority to act, completed transfers, and final value received while preserving unpaid obligations.

Technical References

2026 Mass Technical Specification Architecture, typed contracts, implementation boundaries, and developer and operator references.
2026 Technical Architecture Brief Proposed integrated design for Mass, Moxie, and Recourse, with dated implementation boundaries.

Notes

Related papers and shorter notes on specific institutional and technical questions.

2026 The Multi-Harbored Institution One legal entity, recognised in several jurisdictions at once, with a single composed compliance state. The object, and what it requires of the infrastructure beneath it.
2026 Intelligent Assets Financial instruments that carry their own compliance state and execute inside a multi-harboured entity.
2026 The Recognition Protocol The standard a jurisdiction accedes to: conformance is machine-decided, recognition stays sovereign, and one deposit reaches every participant whose own policy admits it.
2026 Route Coherence If an entity routes from one jurisdiction to another by way of a third, does it arrive in the same compliance state as if it had gone directly?
2026 The Compliance Passport What an entity carries with it when it crosses a border.
2026 Pricing Compliance What it costs to satisfy several jurisdictions at once, and how that cost behaves.
2026 The Corporation Twin A live model of a company that stays in step with its legal state.
2026 Compounding Intelligence What a system learns from operating inside institutions, and how that knowledge accumulates.
2026 The Mutation Firewall One writer per deployment, and why authoritative state depends on it.
2026 Receipt Chains Evidence that a regulator can check without trusting the system that produced it.
2026 Hybrid Post-Quantum Signatures Signing institutional records so they survive the cryptography they were signed under.
2026 Governance as Code Board resolutions, quorums, and authority, expressed so a machine can verify them.
2026 Defeasible Rules Rules that yield to other rules, and how to decide which wins.
2026 Temporal Stratification Law changes the consequences of past events, never their occurrence: two kinds of time keep them apart.
2026 Mutual Recognition When one jurisdiction accepts another jurisdiction’s finding, and on what terms.
2026 Disputing a Verdict What happens when a party disagrees with an automated compliance decision.
2026 Aggregate Safety Violations that exist only in sequences of transactions, and the write-path state that detects them.
2026 Content-Addressed Identity Naming an entity by what it is rather than by where it is recorded.
2026 The Asset Virtual Machine How an asset carries and evaluates its own compliance rules, with a receipt for every evaluation.
2026 The Observation Corpus What running real operations reveals that reading the statute does not.
2026 Capital as a Compliance Problem Share issuance, transfer, and conversion as compliance events across independent regulatory domains, and the exact record they require.
2026 Meta-Evolution How a rule system changes its own rules.
2026 Two Harnesses and a Limit There are two ways to make an AI agent safe: fence the model, or fence the world. The second is also what makes a network of jurisdictions neutral.
2025 Competitive Topologies A response to Schmidt and Sorota’s “This is No Way to Rule a Country”.