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What does it take to build a token register that survives an audit?
The register is the product. The token is how it is transferred.
The answer
A register that survives an audit states, in writing before it is built, which record is authoritative when the on-chain register and the transfer agent’s books disagree — and then reconciles the two daily against a stated tolerance, with every transfer traceable to the restriction-rule version it was checked against at the time.
Three things the register must do, in order
State the authority rule first: when the on-chain register and the transfer agent disagree, the governing documents decide, and the architecture must make that outcome reachable rather than assumed.
Version every restriction rule, so a transfer from eighteen months ago can be checked against the rule that actually applied to it, not the current one.
Reconcile daily against a tolerance agreed with finance, with a named owner for breaks and an escalation threshold above which they must escalate.
The failure this prevents
Registers that skip the authority rule discover the gap during a dispute, when a holder’s balance on-chain and the transfer agent’s books disagree and nobody wrote down which one wins. That is an audit finding, not a bug — the fix is a governance decision, not a patch.
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