Work Package #1

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WP1 — Protocol Architecture & System Design

High-Level Description

This work package establishes the foundational technical architecture for the full RCP protocol stack. It covers system-wide design across all six liquidity stages: gateway onboarding, participation signalling, capital distribution, demand signal ingestion, revenue allocation, and certificate redemption. The output is a set of authoritative architecture documents, interface specifications, and data models that all subsequent work packages implement against. This includes the design of the indexing and routing subsystems that are cross-cutting dependencies throughout the protocol, as well as the Cardano-specific integration strategy defining how on-chain and off-chain components interact.

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Core Objectives

• Define the end-to-end architecture of the RCP protocol across all six liquidity stages.
• Specify the data models for Revenue Participation Certificates, hub-network accounts, team wallets, and treasury structures.
• Design the indexing subsystem responsible for reading and aggregating demand signals from the Cardano network.
• Design the routing subsystem responsible for directing capital flows between gateway, hub, team, and treasury layers.
• Establish the interface contracts between on-chain validators (Cardano/Plutus) and off-chain protocol services.
• Produce a Cardano integration strategy covering ledger interaction, transaction construction, and state management.
• Define the adaptor interface specification for converting real-world economic events into protocol-legible demand signals.

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Expected Value — Why does this matter to Cardano?

The protocol spans multiple technical domains — smart contracts, indexing infrastructure, off-chain services, and demand adaptors — that must interoperate precisely. Without a shared architectural foundation, each subsequent work package risks producing incompatible components. This work package provides the integration blueprint that makes coherent, auditable, end-to-end liquidity flows possible on Cardano. For the Cardano ecosystem, it establishes a reusable pattern for hub-network-scale financial coordination that does not exist in the current tooling landscape.

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Success Metrics

• Architecture documentation reviewed and approved by technical leads across all six protocol stages.
• Interface specifications complete for: gateway contract, RCP issuance, indexer, router, demand adaptor, and redemption module.
• Cardano integration strategy document published, covering ledger interaction patterns and state management approach.
• All subsequent work packages (WP2–WP6) able to commence implementation from WP1 outputs without unresolved dependency gaps.

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Initiative Type

[x] New initiative

Primary Nature of Work

[x] Technical

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Supporting Materials

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