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In a world where trust is increasingly distributed, Bolt Labs is working to ensure that collaboration remains private, resilient, and verifiable by design.
Bolt Labs engaged Inversed to test the limits of decentralized trust: pushing cryptographic systems toward greater scalability, privacy, and fault tolerance.
Trust is the bedrock of all systems. However, building trust into decentralized systems is a unique challenge. As networks decentralize, the ability to coordinate without trusted intermediaries becomes critical. Bolt Labs saw that existing cryptographic solutions often force trade-offs between scalability, security, and simplicity. Trade-offs that effectively limit real-world adoption.
Bolt Labs wanted to determine if threshold cryptography could unlock scalable, resilient coordination, without relying on traditional trust models or centralized fallback systems. No shortcuts. No weak links.
Inversed partnered with Bolt Labs to design and validate a cryptographic framework for decentralized coordination. The challenge was to ensure that multiple parties could jointly authorize actions without relying on a single point of trust. Especially when coordination among multiple parties is required.
We architected a threshold signature solution: enabling secure group decision-making without exposing private keys or centralizing authority. Building cryptographic trust directly into the system itself.
To create a secure threshold signature system, we integrated cryptographic protocols that distribute trust without exposing private inputs. Executing Bolt’s vision required privacy, reliability, and resilience be engineered at the protocol level. A foundation that could enable verifiable, decentralized actions without centralized points of failure.
This collaboration with Bolt validated the potential for threshold cryptography to support non-custodial systems at scale. By demonstrating how control can be securely distributed across multiple parties, it lays the groundwork for trust-minimized infrastructure in a multi-asset world.
The project reinforced Bolt’s belief in building secure, decentralized systems without trade-offs. For Inversed, it was a natural extension of our work — applying cryptography to design systems that embed trust into the protocol itself, not the necessarily the people operating it.
Custody in digital systems can now scale with certainty. Keeping power in the hands of users. In a literal sense, changing who holds the keys.
We partnered with Inversed to explore a technically challenging corner of cryptography. We came away with a robust design that can be built and tested against, with a real confidence in its scalability and security under pressure.
