§1 — The brief.
The brief.
M0 is building cross-chain issuance infrastructure for institutional stablecoin issuers — the substrate that lets issuers mint, manage, and redeem stablecoins across multiple chains while maintaining a single source of issuance authority. The protocol separates the issuance question — who can mint — from the deployment question — where the supply lives.
The engagement is structured as outstaff engineering. Zpoken engineers integrate with M0's internal team and ship work alongside them. The structure fits the reality of institutional stablecoin work: chain integration, audit triage, and treasury edge cases require real-time decisions a fixed-scope contract cannot capture. Specific deliverables and chain coverage are bounded by NDA.
§2 — What we shipped.
What we shipped.
— NDA-BOUNDED SCOPE
Specific deliverables and chain coverage are bounded by NDA. Scope is described at capability level rather than ticket level on this page.
What this engagement demonstrates: stablecoin engineering for institutional issuers where the issuance and redemption infrastructure connects to off-chain treasury operations, and where the roadmap requires engineering decisions at protocol velocity rather than at fixed-deliverable cadence.
§3 — Engineering decisions.
Engineering decisions.
Outstaff over fixed-scope contract.
Institutional stablecoin work has too many real-time decisions for fixed deliverable boundaries to make sense. Outstaff lets the engineering decisions happen at the protocol's roadmap velocity rather than at the contract's amendment velocity. The tradeoff is less defined deliverable scope; the win is engineering work that matches the protocol's actual needs week-over-week. For institutional issuers, that match matters more than scope crispness.
§4 — Where it stands.
Where it stands.
Active; scope and disclosure are NDA-bounded.
§5 — Tech stack.
Tech stack.
~/zpoken/work/m0/stack
[NDA-bounded]
§6 — Founders.
Founders.
Engagement led by Mike Yezhov and Anton Yezhov.