Architecture Design Goals
Principles for a legible structured equity-yield mechanism.
#Design goals
| Goal | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Minimal user actions | Compress execution without hiding strike, expiry, premium or risk |
| Transparent payoff | Derive terminal economics from public position terms |
| Deterministic accounting | Identical finalized inputs produce identical entitlements within explicit rounding |
| Canonical asset identity | Bind Stock Token chain, contract, uid and multiplier context |
| Clear settlement | Specify source, time, unit, finality and exceptional-state behavior |
| Risk isolation | Keep one asset or dependency failure from contaminating unrelated positions |
| Auditable state | Expose enough data to reconstruct position history and payoff |
#Design tensions
Goals conflict. Composability broadens dependency risk. Gas optimization can reduce readability. Upgrade authority can repair defects while increasing trust. Oracle minimization can increase reliance on arbitrage and liquidity. Architecture should make each tradeoff explicit.