Where does the constraint move?
Increasing capacity in one component can change the demands on the rest of the system. Workload, storage, bandwidth and coordination belong in the same evaluation.
Teranode & Scaling
Infrastructure for
a connected economy.
Scaling research asks how a distributed network can support useful activity as demand grows: what it costs to verify work, how data moves, where bottlenecks form and how participants are paid.
01 / The research problem
Capacity, verification
and viable use.
Teranode is BSV node software organised around distributed services. It provides a concrete setting for research into the relationships between computation, storage, propagation and transaction validation.
Read the implementation architectureWhat does verification cost?
The cost of checking and recording activity matters to the applications that can use the network, particularly when individual transactions carry little monetary value.
Which activity becomes viable?
Technical capacity and fee architecture shape the services a network can support. Research connects engineering choices to the economics of participation.
02 / Research connections
From network architecture
to economic activity.
01 / AI
AI systems need a way to account for their work.
AI services consume computation, data and inference, and produce outputs whose provenance can matter to other users and systems. Scaling research asks how metered access, small payments and verifiable records might be provided at costs suited to those workloads.
This connects the technical programme with the economics of AI access and the institutional questions of evidence and accountability.
Explore the AI and innovation programme02 / Monetary finance
The cost of a transaction shapes the possible exchange.
Monetary finance connects scaling to settlement, fee structures and commitment. When processing costs are material relative to the value transferred, they constrain the kinds of exchange that a payment architecture can support.
Research on small payments examines where these costs arise and how alternative fee structures change the conditions for economically useful activity.
03 / Tokenisation
A digital record needs an institutional meaning.
Tokenisation connects a digital record to a right, obligation or resource. Its design raises linked questions: who can issue or alter the record, how claims are verified, what transfer means and how operational control relates to legal responsibility.
This is a meeting point for distributed systems, monetary finance and governance. The research task is to make those relationships explicit enough to examine.
Explore governance, law and accountability03 / Patents
Invention, in
the public record.
Selected US patents on blockchain data systems and smart-contract applications.
US12231573B2
Granted 18 February 2025
Secure processing and exchange of blockchain data
Methods for processing, accessing and transmitting data through a blockchain network.
Named inventors: Craig Steven Wright, Owen Vaughan, Jack Owen Davies and Chloe Ceren Tartan.
Original assignee: nChain Licensing AG.
US11126976B2
Granted 21 September 2021
Smart-contract payroll and cryptocurrency transfer
A method and system linking cryptocurrency transfers to an automated payroll process based on smart contracts.
Named inventors: Craig Steven Wright and Stephane Savanah.
Original assignee: nChain Holdings Ltd.