Writing

The Register

Writing on counterparty identity, entity resolution, and the registers markets rely on.

• On Inclusion A register is defined as much by what it declines to record as by what it holds, and a threshold kept with discipline is what turns inclusion into a credential.
• The Coordination Tax As the cost of moving context falls, firms contract, transactions multiply, and the market's oldest institutional form becomes more necessary.
• On Maintenance A record of a moving world begins to be wrong the moment it is written down, and the strength of a register is measured not by how much it holds but by how fast it heals.
• The Register as an Institutional Form Across centuries, markets that trade at a distance keep reinventing the same institution: an independent body that keeps a canonical record so strangers can transact.
• On Counterparty Identity A name on a contract is a label, not an identity, and the distance between the two is where risk lives.
• The Register of Registers A market navigates by a single authoritative record, and the work of building one is the work of resolution.