Secured Debt, What Is It?
Not all debt is created equal. The difference between secured and unsecured debt determines what a lender can take from you when things go wrong — and most people don't think about it until it's too late.
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What a Platform Owes Itself
"A core rewrite, a lifecycle state machine, CI orchestration, observability, an internal operator dashboard with audit trail, and documentation for engineers not yet hired — the internal work that decides whether the external promises can be kept."
What a Platform Owes
"Organisations and RBAC, compute sleep cycles, a custom support system, and paper trading — four updates that don't add to the exchange count, but change what it means to actually operate on the platform."
Custom Domain Email, Part 2: Sending
Cloudflare Email Routing handles the receiving half. This post covers sending — Gmail "Send As" for human outbound, Resend for programmatic.
Late to the Game, Changed by It
After discovering Claude Code and integrating it into a solo 82,000-line trading platform, the real lesson wasn't about speed — it was about context: "in your head, in the model's window, and in the codebase itself."
Free Custom Email Forwarding with Cloudflare
Set up free email forwarding for any custom domain using Cloudflare Email Routing — no paid email host required.
82,000 Lines of Code Later
Nine exchanges, a full adapter suite, equity protection, compute downsizing, and an honest account of what multi-exchange support actually requires to get right.
Updates on plutarc
Updates on changes to plutarc by Valeon since launch. Four exchanges, 48 strategy components, a new billing model, and a compute layer that now spans three providers and five regions.
Introducing plutarc: Algorithmic Trading, Orchestrated
plutarc by Valeon is a platform for orchestrating the deployment of trading bots — configurable, composable, and built from the foundation up.
The Benchmark Must Bleed
The price governing trillions in crypto derivatives liquidations and settlement is not derived from assets changing hands — it is derived from quotes. This is a proposal to replace the benchmark with one anchored to on-chain settlement, where the only way to move the price is to actually trade.