Research & Open Source

We publish what we wish existed.
Applied research with real-world stakes.

Bitcoin Infrastructure

TSB Token Standard on Bitcoin

CFRI pioneered the R&D behind the TSB token standard on Bitcoin — a foundational open-source protocol enabling programmable assets natively on Bitcoin without compromising its security model. A new primitive for BitcoinFi, built for institutions and builders alike enabling RWA tokenization on Bitcoin and the successor to Ordinals and Runes.

Open Source
AI Agent Frameworks

MartinLoop Open-Source Core

CFRI contributed to the open-source core of MartinLoop — an AI agent orchestration framework built for real enterprise environments, not demo conditions. Designed for composability, auditability, and production deployment at scale.

Open Source
Agentic AI Systems

Production AI Agent Infrastructure

CFRI has deployed agentic AI systems in regulated enterprise environments — LLM orchestration, tool-use pipelines, eval infrastructure, and audit trails built for production. Not demos. Systems that run Monday morning.

Production
Insights

What we're seeing,
thinking, and building.

Applied Research · April 2026

Why Most Canadian AI Pilots Never Reach Production

The gap between a successful proof-of-concept and a deployed system is where most organizations stall. Here's the pattern we keep seeing — and how to break it.

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Bitcoin & Web3 · March 2026

TSB Token Standard: What It Means for Bitcoin-Native Finance

An inside look at the open-source standard we helped develop on Bitcoin — why it matters for institutions and what it enables that wasn't possible before.

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AI Strategy · February 2026

Why Your AI Team Can't Hire Fast Enough — And What To Do Instead

The best Canadian AI hires are already placed. Embedded delivery is faster, cheaper, and lower-risk than a 6-month search for a unicorn hire that may never materialize.

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