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Enough Signatures Is Not Enough: Adding Real Rules to a Shared Vault
How a small guard contract turns “enough people approved” into “enough people approved, and it obeys the rules” — with no admin key and no way to lock a vault…
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Shared Vaults Where No One Person Can Move the Money
Most shared-treasury tools quietly depend on a hosted server in the middle — it stores proposed transactions and collects everyone’s approvals, and if it disappears, coordination stops. FairWins has a…
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Sponsored Gas Without a Vendor: How “No Network Fee” Became True
Our passkey wallets had a broken promise: the confirm screen said “sponsored — no network fee,” but with nothing set up to cover it, a member holding only USDC couldn’t…
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Losing Every Passkey Shouldn’t Mean Losing the Account
Recovery is the make-or-break problem for passkey wallets. Seed phrases were brutal, but everyone understood the recovery story. Passkeys deleted the twelve words — and if your credential lived in…
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Passkey Smart Accounts: A Wallet You Open With Your Fingerprint
Most crypto onboarding still starts with “write down these twelve words.” Your phone already has better: the same Face ID / fingerprint tech you use to log in everywhere. We…
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Put Your Idle Crypto to Work: Staking Comes to FairWins
Most crypto in a wallet just sits there. Today we gave it a job: staking is now live on FairWins. Open Finance → Earn → Staking, pick an asset, and…
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Custody Without a Custodian: Rethinking Safekeeping When Nobody Holds Your Assets
Every custody due-diligence review is really answering three questions: Are the assets segregated? Are they insolvency-remote? Who owns the operational burden? A qualified custodian lets you answer “yes, yes, them.”…
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What “Be Your Own Bank” Actually Means
Who actually holds the money in your bank account? Not you — the bank does. Crypto offers a different deal called self-custody, sometimes described as “being your own bank.” But…
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