Documents and influences. Everything that goes into the protocol.
The project's own documents are below. So is the reading list — the books and standards that shape how TRELYAN thinks about cryptography, capital structure, governance, and the line between protocol and promise.
Project documents § I
The papers the project answers to.
PROTOCOL
TRELYAN Whitepaper
Full specification of the inscription mechanism, signature scheme, state machine, and pre-sale structure. The single source of truth for the protocol.
PDF · 28 pp
Token Classification Memo
Voshmgir-framed classification under FINMA 2018 ICO guidelines. Token vs. Cell. Zahlungstoken vs. Nutzungstoken vs. Anlagetoken. Open questions for Swiss counsel.
PDF · 6 pp
Cell #1 Genesis Inscription Manifesto
The artifact reserved for Cell #1 at genesis. Read before the first transaction.
PDF · 4 pp
STRUCTURE
Treasury Custody & Operations
Cold storage, multi-sig posture, signing ceremony, recovery, and the rules the Foundation operates under.
PDF · 5 pp
Roadmap
Counsel through genesis through the Released cohort. Quarterly milestones. The stop conditions that pause the project at each gate.
PDF · 3 pp
The reading list § II
The books that shape how the project thinks.
TRELYAN is built on the shoulders of a specific set of texts. The taxonomy that frames its tokens is Voshmgir's. The cryptographic literacy is Antonopoulos. The product discipline is Cagan and Eyal. The strategic skeleton is Thiel, Helmer, Dunford. The negotiating posture is Lax-Sebenius. The corporate-law backstop is Kraakman. If you want to argue with the project, these are where the arguments live.
CRYPTO & PROTOCOLS
Token Economy
The token taxonomy underpinning the Token Classification Memo. Why Cells are utility, not security, by structural design.
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Mastering Bitcoin
The standard introduction to UTXO models, hashing, signature schemes, and the discipline of public-key cryptography that PQ work extends.
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Mastering Ethereum
Smart-contract patterns and EVM mechanics, used to explain why Algorand's TEAL gives us the Falcon opcode that EVM doesn't.
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Programming Bitcoin
First-principles cryptographic mechanics — elliptic-curve, hashing, signatures. The "before" picture of what Q-Day breaks.
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Blockchain Developer's Guide
Practical Algorand and EVM development guidance — the engineering scaffolding behind TRELYAN's contract architecture.
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LAW & CORPORATE STRUCTURE
The Anatomy of Corporate Law
The comparative-law backdrop for choosing a Swiss Stiftung over a Delaware corp or a Cayman foundation. The strategic logic behind separating protocol from issuer.
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SIE Securities Industry Essentials
The US regulatory primer that shaped how the pre-sale is offered under Reg D 506(c) and Reg S.
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STRATEGY & BUSINESS MODELS
Zero to One
The case for monopolistic structural advantage — and why TRELYAN's Algorand-only positioning is a feature, not a constraint.
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7 Powers
The structural-power framework used to test whether the protocol has a defensible moat (yes: scarcity + standards + counterposition).
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Obviously Awesome
The positioning discipline behind how TRELYAN frames itself: post-quantum inscription on Algorand, not yet another crypto launch.
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Business Model Generation
The canvas behind the project's funding strategy — Cells are the value capture, the Foundation is the customer.
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Valuation
The pricing model behind tiered pre-sale economics. Why $40K / $15K / $8K and not $50K / $25K / $10K.
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Pricing and Revenue Optimization
The mechanism design behind invitation + lottery + public — three different elasticity curves, three tiers.
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The Outsiders
Eight unconventional CEOs and what they actually did. The discipline of capital allocation under unusual constraints.
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$100M Offers
The offer-construction discipline behind how Founding / Pillar / Vault tier descriptions are written.
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PRODUCT & ENGINEERING
Inspired
Product-management first-principles for a one-person founding team. How TRELYAN scopes what to build, in what order.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The systems-design backdrop for an immutable on-chain inscription mechanism. Replication, partitioning, consistency — applied to a 1,024-cell registry.
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Refactoring UI
The visual-design discipline behind this very page. Typography, spacing, hierarchy.
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Practical UI
A pragmatic guide to UI patterns that this site borrows from for its components.
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HUMAN MOTIVATION & NEGOTIATION
Influence
The persuasion-mechanics literacy that informs how the project communicates — and how it deliberately avoids the patterns most crypto launches lean on.
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3-D Negotiation
The three-dimensional negotiating framework behind LEXR engagement scoping, F&F bridge structuring, and cryptographer-advisor outreach.
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Hooked
The habit-formation literature TRELYAN deliberately rejects — Cells are designed for inscription, not for engagement loops.
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AI & COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Co-Intelligence
The mental model behind the multi-model AI Council that drafted, audited, and stress-tested every artifact in this project — including this page.
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Standards & specifications § III
The documents the protocol must comply with.
NIST FIPS 206 — FN-DSA / Falcon
The standard the project's signature scheme is built on. Read this first.
NIST.GOV ↗
ARC-0034 — Algorand xGov Proposal Process
The community-governance track the project will engage as a retroactive grantee after the inscription contracts are deployed and source-released.
ARC.ALGORAND.FOUNDATION ↗
FINMA 2018 ICO Guidelines
The Swiss regulatory framework that classifies the TRELYAN token and the Vault Cells. The basis of the engagement with LEXR Zürich.
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