The design targets roughly one and a third seconds, start to finish. 💬How it gets there is in the blog below. frame.community/updates/dece…

One confirmation, final by design. 1⃣ On most chains you can wait through several confirmations and hope the order didn't shift along the way. Frame is being designed so that when a transaction confirms, it is intended to be final at that point - nothing to reorganize or roll back. With no public waiting room in the design, nothing sits exposed before it settles, which is intended to remove the chance for someone to jump ahead of your transaction for profit.

As crypto grew beyond Bitcoin, it rebuilt many of the structures it set out to replace. - Bots skim from traders before settlement. - Price feeds get bent. - Bridges between chains have been drained of billions. - Every chain became its own island, with an economy built on keeping others walled off. Same intermediaries. Same toll points. The same blueprint, rebuilt in new forms. Rafe calls the extractive era of 2013-2025 a detour, not the destination. 🧵

"A fair launch means nobody starts ahead of you." That's how Sean opens his latest blog. No insiders on cheap tokens, or fund waiting to dump the second there's liquidity. Everybody walks up to the same starting line, and the network earns its way up from there. Sean explains how we spent a year turning down venture money to protect that. The offers came with governance grabs, locked treasuries, and discounted tokens built to be offloaded onto the community. Frame said no to every one. The structure that finally made a fair launch fundable was a public company. Its value lives in the growth of the business, not in an insider allocation to unload on retail. 📈

When trading demand spikes, many swaps reach the network in the same moment. 🚥 Frame is being designed to process the ones that arrive together as one batch, rather than one at a time. The aim is fewer failed transactions during heavy activity.

Frame is being designed to launch lean and get faster as it grows. 📈⚡️ Adding validators is usually a trade-off, more operators against more coordination overhead. Frame's design aims to turn that into an advantage. The network is being designed to split by region, with parallel lanes inside each one, so every new validator would add a lane. 🛣️ More validators would mean more throughput, and the cost of running any single one is meant to stay flat.

Bridges have been the most attacked part of crypto. Our latest blog, Decentralization On Purpose, puts it plainly: bridges have historically been the corner that gets hit again and again, and industry losses run into the billions. The structural reason is that a bridge able to move faster than the network it connects to has a window that can be exploited. 🔓 Frame is being designed around one rule: the bridge can never move faster than consensus. Funds would only leave once Frame's own validators have finalized the transaction and produced cryptographic proof that more than two-thirds of them agreed. 🤝 No single person is meant to hold the keys. The bridge is designed to carry out only what the validators have already approved.

Rafe covers the whole thesis, from poker to Bitcoin to Frame, in his latest blog. 💬 frame.community/founders/raf…

Frame is being designed around a single idea from game theory: make the selfish move the cooperative one. ♦️ Most networks are built to capture value and hold it in. Every chain becomes its own island, and every island profits from staying separate. The bridges between them get exploited, and billions have been lost that way. Frame is being designed to do the opposite. ⚡️ Connect other chains into one economy, lift what each of them can do, and grow by making them stronger rather than competing with them. 💪 The move that is best for any one participant is also the best move for the whole system.

If you’d like to read the blog behind the AMA discussion, you can find it here: 📖 Decentralization, On Purpose frame.community/updates/dece…

Staking on Frame is being designed so users won’t need to evaluate individual validators. 🤔 That came up in our latest Discord AMA. Frame’s delegation layer is being structured around a shared pool, with stake distributed across validators automatically. If a validator is penalized or slashed, the impact of any single validator failure would be spread across the pool rather than concentrated on one participant. Delegation is expected to roll out as the network matures. The unbonding period is expected to adjust based on network conditions, averaging roughly 30 days. Staking rewards are expected to be claimable or restakable immediately. Tokenomics and validator requirements to follow. 💬

Frame is being designed to launch with three distinct groups of validators. Sean walked through them in last week's AMA. 🧵

Decentralization gets thrown around a lot in crypto, but what does it actually look like in practice? 🤔 Our latest blog explores validator architecture, the role of consensus in bridge security, and the thinking behind Frame's planned path toward community participation rather than treating decentralization as a launch-day checkbox. 📖 Read Decentralization, On Purpose: frame.community/updates/dece… We've also introduced Founder Blogs, a new section for posts from members of the team 👇 ✍️ Visit Founder Blogs: frame.community/founders

🗓️ We're hosting an AMA this Thursday. Bring your questions. We've just started showing how Frame is actually being built: the validators being designed to secure the network, and the staged plan to open it up so anyone can help run it. Read the blog, then come ask us about it. 👇 frame.community/updates 🎙️ Discord AMA 🗓️ Thursday 18 June, 7pm UTC 💬 discord.gg/framecommunity

Frame recently became part of a public company. Rather than mark that with another milestone post, we wanted to show the work. The first network insight blog in a series on how Frame actually works is live: frame.community/updates/dece…

This is the kind of conversation we have most days in our Discord and Telegram. Come find us below. 🤝

In crypto, disclosure, audit obligations and governance overhead are usually framed as friction - the things projects skip when they want to move quickly. 📋 But what rarely gets said is that those same compliance standards are what everyday users have to fall back on when things start going wrong, which is when they tend to need them most. That's what they're for. 🛡️ Frame is being built under those standards from day one because we believe the industry has been missing them - a different starting point than being required to adopt them later. 🏛️

Cross-chain liquidity is one of those problems that looks solved from the outside and isn't. 🌐 Every ecosystem has its own pools, its own pricing, its own slippage. Moving between them means either accepting bad rates, using a bridge or splitting the trade across multiple transactions and hoping the price doesn't move between them. Unified liquidity across chains is one of the infrastructure problems Frame is being designed to sit at the centre of rather than work around. 🏗️

Crypto has a perception problem that the industry mostly created itself. 📊 The loudest voices have historically been the ones promising the biggest returns on the shortest timelines, and when those promises didn't land the credibility damage spread to everyone building seriously in the same space. 📢 Infrastructure that aims to be used at institutional scale can't be built on that foundation. Trust takes longer to build than a token launch and it doesn't come back quickly when it breaks. 🏗️

Stablecoin card spend grew around 105% over the past year, and the spending itself is becoming almost indistinguishable from ordinary card activity. 💳 The reason it's working is that it doesn't try to replace anything; the cards run on existing card networks like Mastercard and the merchant still receives fiat. 🤝 What's interesting is happening in the background, where settling in stablecoins frees up capital that would otherwise sit idle until the banks reopen. 👇

16 years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas and proved that Bitcoin could actually be used as money. 🍕 Those pizzas are worth around $769 million at today's price! The point of the story isn't what he spent. It's that before May 22 2010, crypto was theoretical. After it, it was real. The entire industry traces a straight line back to someone wanting pizza badly enough to spend digital coins on it. Frictionless crypto payments were the goal back then. They still are. Sixteen years on, most people still can't pay with crypto without jumping through hoops that didn't exist with cash in 2010. 🌐

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The crypto market has spent the past six months correlating closely with tech stocks, moving up when the Nasdaq moves up and pulling back when it doesn't. 📊 That's fine as a short-term dynamic but it points to something the industry hasn't fully resolved, which is whether crypto is being treated as a risk-on speculative asset or as genuinely independent financial infrastructure. The answer to that question matters a lot for what gets built and who builds it over the next five years. 👀

Most networks let you see the price of using them but not who's running them, what their criteria are or what happens when something goes wrong on the operator side. 🔍 That gap between user-facing transparency and operator-facing transparency is one of the inheritances from early-era infrastructure that most projects have stopped questioning. Frame is being designed so the people running the network are on record from day one. Selection criteria public. Performance data public. Penalties and slashing on the same record everyone else uses. A network that's transparent about its users should be at least that transparent about itself. 🏛️

The Frame community on Discord and Telegram keeps growing and the quality of conversation in there is something we genuinely look forward to every day. 🤝 People asking the right questions, sharing what we're building toward with their own audiences and holding us to a standard that makes the project better. Sean will be running text-based AMAs in both communities as we build toward launch. The links are below if you want to be part of it before it happens. 📲

Most interoperability protocols require months of negotiation, governance votes and bilateral agreements before a new chain can be connected. 🌐 Frame is being designed around the principle of adding chains without needing permission from the chain on the other side. Here's why that changes the growth model entirely 🧵

ARK Invest published a $16 trillion Bitcoin market cap target by 2030 and Ethereum ETFs are pulling hundreds of millions in single-session inflows, which tells you institutional capital has already made its decision and the conversation in those boardrooms has moved from whether to allocate to how much and through what structure. 📊 The infrastructure that handles that volume reliably at scale is still being designed, which is the context we're building Frame into. 🏗️

Most developer grant programmes are built around applications, pitches and a lot of waiting. 🔧 The ecosystems that actually grow don't usually come from that process. They come from developers who showed up before anyone invited them, deployed before there was a financial incentive to do it and built because the problem was worth solving on its own terms. That's the kind of developer community Frame is aiming to build around. 🏗️

50 tokenized stocks and ETFs went live on BNB Chain recently while crypto-enabled real estate purchases are being processed and verified at $9.4M. 📈 The line between onchain and traditional finance is moving faster than most people expected even a year ago. The more important question underneath all of that is: what infrastructure are those assets actually settling on? It's an answer that shapes who controls the rails that everything else ends up running on. 🌐

Privacy in crypto gets positioned as a feature for people with something to hide and that framing has done real damage to how the whole industry thinks about it. 🔒 Privacy is a design requirement for infrastructure operating at scale, not an optional extra you add for a niche audience. Businesses don't want their transaction data public. Individuals shouldn't have to choose between using a network and exposing their financial activity to anyone watching the chain. We're aiming to build Privacy Mode into Frame from the foundation rather than bolting it on later. 🏗️

The people who find Frame and stay aren't usually chasing the next trade. 🤝 They're asking harder questions about how infrastructure should actually work and why the current model keeps producing the same failures on a loop. Those conversations are happening in our community every day and we read all of it. Come find us. 👇 frame.community/discord frame.community/telegram

Bitcoin researchers published a migration design last week for addresses that quantum computers could eventually crack, and the proposal is called Public Address-Control Timestamps, PACTs, which aims to make that migration costless and silent for users. 🔐 The fact that a named, documented migration proposal exists tells you the timeline has moved out of the theoretical and into the practical. Most networks are treating post-quantum cryptography as a future upgrade they'll get to eventually, which assumes the threat arrives on a predictable schedule that nobody actually controls. We believe the signing and settlement layers of serious infrastructure should be built for the threat environment of the next decade rather than the one we're already leaving behind, and that's a decision that has to be made at the foundation. 🛡️ Retrofitting cryptography into a live network isn't like updating an app. It's closer to replacing the concrete a building is standing on.

Many crypto projects push back hard on disclosure requirements, governance obligations and audit trails because they slow things down, which is true. 📋 They also slow down the exits when things go wrong and that part tends not to get mentioned in the same breath. We're building Frame under those standards from day one because we believe the industry has been missing them rather than because we're being forced into it. That distinction matters for how the whole thing gets built. 🏛️

Most chains sell your transaction order to whoever pays the most and it's completely legal, structural and baked in from the start rather than something that crept in later. 📊 It's called MEV, Maximal Extractable Value, and it means two people sending the same transaction at the same moment can pay different amounts based entirely on how much someone else bid to jump the queue ahead of them. Most users have no idea this is happening every time they transact. We're designing Frame so that doesn't happen because equal terms for everyone on the network isn't a marketing line, it's a architectural decision that has to be committed to before a single block is produced. 🔒

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Brazil's central bank banned crypto from regulated cross-border payment rails on April 29, with the stated goal of oversight over capital flows which is a fair objective in itself. 🌎 The issue is that pulling the payment option millions of people were actively using isn't the same as solving the underlying problem that made them reach for it, and fragmentation is what pushes people toward those workarounds in the first place. Better infrastructure reduces that pressure over time. 🏗️

AI agents now have virtual Mastercards, spending stablecoins directly from onchain wallets at any merchant globally. 🤖 💸 Two years ago that sentence would have sounded like fiction. The question isn't whether agents will move money at scale. They already are. Whether the rails underneath them were built for this or just repurposed from something older is a question the industry hasn't answered yet. 👀 We believe it's worth answering properly.

Watch someone outside of crypto try to use a Web3 product for the first time. Don't help them. Just watch. 👀 Most products in this space were built from the inside out. They make sense to the people who built them. First-timers hit a wall before they ever reach the value. We think about that moment a lot - the product should do the explaining.

Enterprise hasn't adopted crypto infrastructure at scale because the infrastructure hasn't earned it yet. 🏦 Audited financials. Regulatory compliance. Board oversight. Legal accountability. These are table stakes for any institution seriously considering this space. Many protocols can't offer any of it. We think that's the gap worth closing. It's a big part of why we're structured the way we are. 🏗️

Genuine question for anyone who's moved assets between chains 👇 What's the moment that made you think "this shouldn't be this hard"? 🤔 Drop it below or bring it to the community platforms. We read all of it.

Most validator networks make a quiet trade-off. Speed for security, scale for decentralisation. We don't think that's inevitable. 🔒 When validation is distributed geographically across independent lanes with randomised committee selection, attacking the network gets more expensive as it grows. Security can scale with the network rather than against it.

Most digital security today is built on mathematical foundations with a definitive expiration date. 📅 A primary concern for the industry is "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" - a process where encrypted data is captured today and stored until computational power evolves enough to unlock it. At Frame, we are addressing this shift through our core research and development. 🔒 We are aiming to build a network that utilizes post-quantum cryptography at the signing and settlement layers. Our engineering goal is to move beyond legacy methods and establish a foundation for long-term asset integrity and privacy. ⛓️ We believe the future of commerce requires a sovereign infrastructure that is resilient to these emerging threats, and we are focused on building that foundation. ⚡

Most people don’t go looking for instructions. 👀 They land, scan, try something. If it’s not obvious where to go next, they’re gone. 🌬️ A lot of products in this space are built from the inside out - makes sense to the people who made it, but not to those seeing it for the first time. 🧱 Over time, through building and watching how people actually use these tools, it becomes obvious where things break. When navigation isn’t clear and too many steps are required for simple tasks, the product breaks down for the user. ⚡️ Good UI/UX is a big focus for Frame. We are building with that in mind from the ground up. 🖥️ 💬 Join the discussion and follow development: frame.community/discord

A lot of the conversation happens off the timeline. Discord is where we keep things direct. 🤝 Team updates, upcoming text-based AMAs, and day-to-day discussion all sit in one place, with the community involved as it develops. 💬 frame.community/discord

"We need to hold more people accountable." That line from Brian in our latest AMA hits something many in crypto feel but don’t always say out loud. 👇 Most projects launch with no financial disclosures, no board oversight, and no real accountability when things go wrong. When it falls apart, teams vanish and communities take the hit. ⛓️ Frame is taking a different route: Infrastructure shaped by accountability, aligned incentives, unified liquidity, and tech we believe people can actually use without needing to understand every layer underneath. 💬 Ongoing updates and discussion are shared here: frame.community/discord

Legacy blockchain architectures often carry forward structural limitations, where constraints in consensus design and growing state requirements can introduce friction around scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability. ⛓️ Frame is being advanced from an established network architecture, with development now focused on the next phase of protocol evolution. 🧵 (1/3)

We believe in a world where blockchain infrastructure is fair, accessible, and built to scale globally from day one. 🌍 Where access is not limited by geography, complexity, or fragmented systems, and where individuals, developers, and enterprises operate on the same foundation without barriers. 🧵

From our first Frame Community AMA 🎙️ We’re building Frame within a public company structure. That means clear oversight, required disclosures, and decisions made in the open. We’re aligning everyone involved around the same direction as this next phase gets underway. ⏩

GM ☀️ Our first Frame Community AMA is locked in. Tomorrow at 5PM UTC, we'll be live to walk through last week's announcement, and where things move next from here. Set a reminder and bring your questions 👇 nitter.net/i/spaces/1OxwblQENbRJB