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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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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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