Rafe makes the game-theory case for why cooperation, not extraction, is the winning strategy over time, and how that thinking runs through what Frame is being built to do.
frame.community/founders/rafe
A genuine fair launch is rare, because protecting one is expensive. Sean writes about what it cost Frame to hold that line, and why building under a public company is what made it possible to fund without cutting corners.
frame.community/founders/sean
We've also opened a new Founder Blogs section.
The team blog is the how-it-works voice; the founder blogs are the people building Frame writing personally about the thinking behind it.
Two are ready to read below
We cover how validators work, what makes Frame's design different, the quantum-safe signatures, how a transaction moves from start to finish, how the bridge is built, and the road to decentralization.
This update walks through the validators being designed to secure the network, and the staged, deliberate path to handing it over to the community. Written to be readable for anyone, and best read alongside our interactive Network Explorer!
Frame recently became part of a public company. Rather than mark that with another milestone post, we wanted to show the work.
The first network insight blog in a series on how Frame actually works is live: frame.community/updates/decentโฆ
In crypto, disclosure, audit obligations and governance overhead are usually framed as friction - the things projects skip when they want to move quickly. ๐
But what rarely gets said is that those same compliance standards are what everyday users have to fall back on when
Cross-chain liquidity is one of those problems that looks solved from the outside and isn't. ๐
Every ecosystem has its own pools, its own pricing, its own slippage. Moving between them means either accepting bad rates, using a bridge or splitting the trade across multiple
Crypto has a perception problem that the industry mostly created itself. ๐
The loudest voices have historically been the ones promising the biggest returns on the shortest timelines, and when those promises didn't land the credibility damage spread to everyone building
It's still under 1% of global card spend, but infrastructure tends to win quietly by fitting into what already works rather than asking everyone to start over. ๐
That's the world Frame is being designed for. If that's the kind of thing you think about too, we're worth
Stablecoin card spend grew around 105% over the past year, and the spending itself is becoming almost indistinguishable from ordinary card activity. ๐ณ
The reason it's working is that it doesn't try to replace anything; the cards run on existing card networks like Mastercard and