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Perspectives from the Infracash team on compliance, engineering, security and performance in institutional settlement infrastructure.

Compliance

Native Compliance — Why Verify Before Execute is the New Standard for Institutional Settlement

The convergence of banking rails and blockchain demands a new compliance approach — native to infrastructure, not an afterthought.

Andreia Mendes

Head of Compliance and Fraud Prevention

Mar 10, 20268 min

Regulation

GENIUS Act, MiCA and BACEN — The Global Regulatory Map and What It Demands from Your Infrastructure

In less than 18 months, the global regulatory landscape for stablecoins shifted from fragmented to structured. Is your infrastructure ready?

Andreia Mendes

Head of Compliance and Fraud Prevention

Mar 08, 20268 min

Security

Fraud Prevention in Cross-Border Operations — The Role of Observability

Cross-border payment fraud is a $40 billion per year problem. The solution is no longer monitoring — it's native observability.

Andreia Mendes

Head of Compliance and Fraud Prevention

Mar 06, 20267 min

Engineering

6-Layer Settlement Architecture — How to Design Infrastructure to Operate in Two Worlds

Banking and blockchain rails operate with distinct paradigms. Unifying them requires layered architecture, not point-to-point integrations.

Gabriel Darruiz

Head of Engineering

Mar 09, 20269 min

Engineering

Event-Driven Architecture for Settlement — Why Think in Events, Not Requests

The request-response model collapses when operations transit between multiple rails with different response times. Events are the answer.

Gabriel Darruiz

Head of Engineering

Mar 05, 20267 min

Engineering

API-First for Financial Infrastructure — Design Principles for Systems That Cannot Fail

In settlement infrastructure, an API failure can mean funds stuck in transit. Five design principles that prevent this.

Gabriel Darruiz

Head of Engineering

Mar 03, 20267 min

Security

Zero Trust in Financial Infrastructure — Security That Doesn't Depend on Perimeter

In systems processing settlement between banking and blockchain rails, perimeter-based security is insufficient. Zero Trust is the answer.

Raí Nunes

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 07, 20268 min

Performance

Sub-Second Settlement Performance — Latency Engineering for Critical Financial Systems

When every millisecond counts, performance isn't optimization — it's architecture. How to design settlement systems that consistently operate under 1 second.

Raí Nunes

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 04, 20268 min

Scalability

Horizontal Scalability in Payment Infrastructure — Growing Without Rewriting

The difference between infrastructure that scales and infrastructure that collapses lies in design decisions made before the first transaction.

Raí Nunes

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 02, 20268 min

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