#Custody
Articles about Custody — exploring patterns, best practices, and real-world implementations in production systems.
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Lay out a two-tier retail CBDC — central-bank ledger, intermediaries, retail wallets, and the offline mode that makes engineers nervous.
Lay out a two-tier retail CBDC: central-bank ledger, intermediaries, retail wallets, and offline modes.
Design MPC / threshold-signature custody so no single party or HSM holds a whole key.
Design MPC / threshold-signature custody so no single party or HSM holds a whole key.
Solving the sending-side reliability problem — nonce sequencing, fee estimation, and replacing a transaction that gets stuck in the mempool.
Solve the sending-side reliability problem: nonce sequencing and gas/fee estimation, including stuck-transaction replacement.
How a custodial exchange hands every user a unique deposit address from a single seed, then safely consolidates the funds into treasury.
BIP-32/44 hierarchical-deterministic address derivation, per-user deposit addresses, detection/confirmation, and sweeping to cold storage.
How a custodian proves it holds what it owes, what the cryptography actually guarantees, and where the guarantee stops.
How a custodian proves it holds customer assets: Merkle tree of liabilities, on-chain reserve attestation, and the limits of PoR.
How to safely credit on-chain deposits and finalize settlement: confirmation-depth thresholds, mempool tracking, chain-reorg detection with balance rollback, and idempotent handling of replaced transactions.
Teaches how to safely credit crypto deposits and finalize settlement: confirmation-depth thresholds, mempool/pending tracking, chain-reorg detection and balance rollback, and idempotent handling of replaced transactions.
How to engineer a fiat-backed stablecoin: mint-on-deposit and burn-on-redeem flows tied to a reserve ledger, a 1:1 reserve invariant, and continuous reconciliation between on-chain supply and off-chain custody balances.
Teaches how to engineer a fiat-backed stablecoin: mint-on-deposit / burn-on-redeem flows tied to a reserve ledger, 1:1 reserve invariant checks, and reconciliation between on-chain supply and off-chain custody balances.
How to architect wallet tiers, HD-derived deposit addresses, HSM/MPC signing quorums, and sweep flows so no one key, and no one person, can move funds.
Teaches how to architect custody: hot/warm/cold wallet tiers, HSM or MPC key custody, withdrawal approval quorum, address derivation (HD wallets), and sweep flows from deposit to cold storage.
How a custodian actually safekeeps client assets — account structures, the custody network, settlement instructions, and the books-and-records engine that keeps it all honest.
How a custodian holds assets in omnibus vs segregated accounts, the CSD/sub-custodian network, settlement instructions, and asset-servicing (income, proxy, tax).
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.