Topic

Risk and Security

Research on smart-contract security, operational resilience, portfolio risk, and digital-asset protection.

Research: 2
Insights: 1
Knowledge: 2

Scope

This topic connects technical security with operational and portfolio risk.

Research

Privacy-Preserving Compliance in On-Chain Finance

Zero-knowledge proofs and credentials can reduce unnecessary disclosure, but compliance still depends on identity evidence, issuer trust, current policy, and accountability.

Authors: Alireza Heidari
Publication date: July 30, 2026
Topics: DeFi, Risk and Security, Smart Contracts
Reading time: 14 min read

Working PaperPublished

From Smart Contracts to Persistent Financial Policies

A durable financial policy requires scoped authority, lifecycle state, revocation, observability, reconciliation, and failure recovery beyond an isolated smart-contract function.

Authors: Saee Ghaemi
Publication date: July 30, 2026
Topics: Blockchain Automation, Risk and Security, Smart Contracts
Reading time: 14 min read

Insights

InsightPublished

AI Agents Can Move Money. But Who Proves the Intent?

Agentic payments require evidence of delegated intent, scoped authority, identity, revocation, and accountability—not merely a valid machine-generated signature.

Publication date: July 30, 2026
Topics: AI in Finance, Blockchain Automation, Risk and Security
Reading time: 6 min read

Knowledge

KnowledgeIntroductory

How Do Rule-Based Smart-Contract Automations Work?

Rule-based smart-contract automation combines a trigger, condition, permission, executor, monitoring, and failure process to perform deterministic actions.

Difficulty: Introductory
Topics: Blockchain Automation, Risk and Security, Smart Contracts
Reading time: 6 min read

KnowledgeIntroductory

What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Finance?

Zero-knowledge proofs can verify a financial eligibility statement without revealing all of the underlying personal or transactional data.

Difficulty: Introductory
Topics: DeFi, Risk and Security, Smart Contracts
Reading time: 6 min read

Authors contributing to this topic

Alireza Heidari

President & Co-Founder at PraxiHub | Co-Founder at Praxifi

1 associated active publication

Saee Ghaemi

Founder at PraxiHub & Praxifi | Vice President at PraxiHub

1 associated active publication

Smart Contracts

Research on smart-contract architecture, assurance, permissions, execution conditions, and failure modes.

3 Research
3 Knowledge

Blockchain Automation

Research on smart-contract automation, execution boundaries, protocol design, and non-custodial systems.

3 Research
3 Insights
3 Knowledge

DeFi

Research on decentralized-finance protocols, governance, market structure, risks, and system design.

1 Research
1 Insights
3 Knowledge

AI in Finance

Research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision support, limitations, and governance in finance.

1 Insights