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Building
financial
infrastructure
on blockchain.

A practical guide to building regulated financial products on distributed ledger technology — written by the team behind Bridge Intelligence.

320 pages12 chaptersPublished 2026English
Bridge Intelligence

Building
Financial
Infrastructure
on Blockchain

A Practical Guide for Banks, Fintechs, and Developers

What you'll learn

A comprehensive treatment of the technical, regulatory, and operational challenges of building financial infrastructure on distributed ledger technology.

Distributed Ledger Architecture

Permissioned vs public networks, consensus mechanisms, and when to use which.

Settlement Finality

How DLT-based settlement compares to traditional RTGS, and the engineering challenges of atomic finality.

Tokenization Patterns

Practical patterns for tokenizing securities, real estate, and commodities with regulatory compliance.

Custody Architecture

HSM-backed key management, multi-signature workflows, and institutional custody design.

Identity & KYC

Building portable digital identity systems with multi-provider compliance screening.

Cross-Border Payments

Designing settlement corridors that compete with correspondent banking.

Compliance Engineering

Encoding regulatory rules at the protocol level — Travel Rule, sanctions screening, jurisdiction enforcement.

Multi-Chain Integration

Connecting permissioned DLT to public blockchains (Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin).

Operational Realities

Lessons from running production DLT infrastructure at institutional scale.

Table of Contents

12 chapters

01
The Broken Payment System
02
Distributed Ledger Fundamentals
03
Designing for Finality
04
Building a Settlement Network
05
Custody at Institutional Scale
06
Identity, KYC, and AML
07
Tokenization Patterns
08
Real-World Asset Tokenization
09
Cross-Border Settlement
10
Multi-Chain Bridge Architecture
11
Compliance as Infrastructure
12
The Future of Financial Rails

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Available in paperback, Kindle, and as a free PDF for builders and researchers.

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