There's a dangerous assumption most developers bring into Compact: "It's a privacy-first chain. My data is private unless I explicitly expose it." This is backwards. And it's where the serious mistakes happen. Compact doesn't give you automatic privacy. It gives you a hard boundary between two worlds, and a compiler that enforces it. World Where Who sees it Public On-chain, every network no
## INTRODUCTION Every blockchain application that handles value needs to answer the same question: how do you track who owns what? There are two dominant approaches, and choosing between them shapes your entire contract architecture. Contract-state accounting behaves like a bank ledger. A single smart contract holds a balance map, and transactions update entries in place. The UTXO model behaves li
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.