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
Cryptographer-credible end-to-end specification: inscription mechanism, Falcon-1024 security under the NTRU key-recovery and NTRU-SIS assumptions (the deployed scheme is round-3 deterministic Falcon-1024; the FN-DSA / draft FIPS 206 successor is not what is deployed), Cell state machine, pre-sale architecture, governance under the Swiss Stiftung. The single authoritative source on the protocol.
PDF · 10 pp
Token Classification Memo
Classification under FINMA 2018 ICO Guidelines, the 2019 Stablecoin Supplement, FinfraG art. 2 lit. b, FIDLEG, the DLT-Act, and Voshmgir's reference taxonomy. Three concurrent structural features designed to suppress Anlagetoken re-characterization for the Cells. — available to qualified parties on request.
ON REQUEST
Inscription Contract Architecture
Formal contract specification — actors, state machine, storage model, threat model (EUF-CMA framing with domain-separation), known-unknowns surfaced for audit, formal-verification posture under the K-Framework TEAL semantics. — available to qualified parties on request.
ON REQUEST
Cell #1 Genesis Inscription Manifesto
The artifact reserved for Cell #1 at genesis — the project's canonical self-description, addressable from any other TRELYAN document by CID after inscription.
PDF · 4 pp
STRUCTURE
Treasury Custody & Operations
Cold storage, multi-sig posture, signing ceremony, recovery, and the rules the Foundation operates under. — available to qualified parties on request.
ON REQUEST
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. Reference for the Cells' structural design, which is intended to support a Nutzungstoken (utility token) classification under FINMA's 2018 framework — subject to FINMA pre-ruling and counsel review.
REFERENCED
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 planned Q4 2027 Cell pre-sale will be offered under Reg D 506(c) (to verified accredited US investors) and Reg S (to non-US persons).
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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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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 a write-once 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, reviewed, 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 PQC Project — Falcon (round-3) / FN-DSA
The lattice signature scheme the project's on-chain verification is built on: round-3 deterministic Falcon-1024 (the deployed primitive). NIST selected Falcon in 2022 as one of three post-quantum signature schemes for standardization (alongside ML-DSA / Dilithium and SLH-DSA / SPHINCS+), in the same announcement as the Kyber KEM; its standardized form — FN-DSA, draft FIPS 206 — is still in development. Read this first.
NIST.GOV ↗
NIST FIPS 204 — ML-DSA / Dilithium
The companion lattice signature standard NIST published alongside FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA). The reference for understanding the broader post-quantum signature landscape Falcon sits within.
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 three-category supervisory framework — Zahlungstoken, Nutzungstoken, Anlagetoken — under which the TRELYAN token — designed as a fixed-supply utility token with no market, no liquidity, and not transferable until genesis, an intended Nutzungstoken classification subject to FINMA pre-ruling and counsel review — and the Vault Cells are independently classified. The 2019 Stablecoin Supplement extends the framework. The authoritative reference for Swiss crypto-asset regulatory analysis.
FINMA.CH ↗