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Web3Software

Engineering · 7 min read

Designing a Deterministic Matching Engine in Rust

A matching engine is the single most performance- and correctness-critical component of any exchange. Here is how we approach determinism, sequencing, and crash recovery so an engine can be rebuilt byte-for-byte from its log.

Adrian Vance · Nov 12, 2025

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Security · 8 min read

A Practical Threat Model for Smart Contract Engagements

Audits find bugs; threat modelling prevents whole classes of them. We walk through how we frame trust boundaries, privileged roles, and economic attacks before a single line of contract code is written.

Adrian Vance · Oct 28, 2025

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DeFi · 7 min read

Concentrated Liquidity on Solana: What Actually Changes

Porting a Uniswap-v3-style AMM to Solana is not a recompile. The account model, compute budget, and tick storage force genuinely different design decisions. Here is what we learned shipping one.

Adrian Vance · Sep 30, 2025

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AI · 6 min read

Putting an LLM in the Loop Without Losing Control

Autonomous agents are powerful and, left unchecked, dangerous in financial systems. The pattern that makes them safe is simple: the model proposes, a deterministic gate disposes, and everything is explainable.

Adrian Vance · Sep 9, 2025

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DeFi · 7 min read

Tokenising Real Assets: The Compliance Layer Is the Hard Part

Minting a token that represents a regulated asset is easy. Making it transfer only between allow-listed wallets, support forced redemptions, and reconcile to the cent with an off-chain administrator is where the real engineering lives.

Adrian Vance · Aug 21, 2025

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Company · 6 min read

How We Run an Engagement: From First Call to Production

Most blockchain projects fail on process, not technology. Here is the engagement model we use to take an institutional client from a problem statement to a system running in production — with the controls that demands.

Adrian Vance · Jul 15, 2025