Blockchain architecture & advisory
A shared ledger earns its cost when several parties who do not trust each other must agree on a sequence of events and no one of them may hold the authoritative copy. In most enterprise architectures one party legitimately can — and then a replicated database is cheaper, faster and easier to audit.
The engagement is the written answer to that question, delivered as a document that survives internal review rather than a workshop. Where the answer is no, we say so in writing, and we have ended engagements at that sentence.
- Practice
- Advisory and delivery
- Industries
- 12, with 5 evidenced
- Platforms
- Custody & wallet
Four workstreams
Chain selection
The finality assumption the accounting system needs decides the shortlist before throughput does. Cost of operation is modelled, not estimated.
Custody design
Who may sign, under what approval, and what happens when a signer leaves. Usually the longest item in the plan.
Threat modelling
Bridge exposure, upgrade capture, oracle dependence, and the failure that is a governance question wearing a technical costume.
Build-or-buy
Against the licensable catalogue and against the market. A recommendation with the case for not building it at all.
How an engagement runs
- 1–2 weeks
Framing. The authoritative-record question, the parties, and what a counterparty would accept.
- 3–5 weeks
Architecture. Chain, custody, finality, integration map, operating cost, and the risks named.
- 1–2 weeks
Review. The document taken through internal risk, audit and technology governance with us in the room.
- Optional
Carry the same team into delivery, or hand the document to whoever builds it.
This capability, by industry
Intersection pages exist where the work can be evidenced. The rest are listed so you can see what is not claimed.
- Capital markets & digital assets
- Financial services page pending
- Government & public sector page pending
- Energy & natural resources page pending
- Real estate & infrastructure page pending
7 further industries — not yet evidenced
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