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Applications

These pages show ideas, not code. Each application is a composition of the same few primitives — covenants, timelocks, oracle signatures, proven Bitcoin facts, private transfers — enforced by consensus rather than operated by anyone.

ApplicationBuilt from
Paymentsprivate transfers, ~1 min finality
Escrowproven Bitcoin fact releases a covenant
Delivery versus paymentatomic two-leg settlement
Vaultscovenant templates + timelocks
OTC settlementquotes + atomic swaps, privately
Inheritancetimeouts + oracle signatures
Miner hedgingBitcoin difficulty read in consensus
Stable valuecovenant positions, never a minted currency

One discipline governs all of them: the protocol ships primitives, builders ship applications. One working application justifies the whole network.