{
  "name": "Post Fiat",
  "url": "https://postfiat.org/",
  "description": "Post Fiat is an XRP-derived network for capital markets and collective intelligence. It keeps fast XRPL-style settlement, adds published validator selection and privacy-enabled workflows, and uses Task Node plus validator participation to build an auditable coordination layer for AI-assisted financial workflows.",
  "network_type": "XRPL-derived network",
  "native_asset": "PFT",
  "current_status": {
    "stage": "public testnet",
    "production_mainnet": false,
    "last_updated_utc": "2026-03-23T19:35:33Z",
    "live_validator_snapshot": {
      "source_name": "Live VHS snapshot",
      "source_url": "https://vhs.testnet.postfiat.org/v1/network/validators/test",
      "validator_count": 38,
      "publishing_domain_count": 24,
      "verified_domain_count": 13,
      "latest_ledger_index": 1298059,
      "agreement_24h": {
        "threshold_label": "99.9%+",
        "count": 34
      },
      "agreement_30day": {
        "threshold_label": "99%+",
        "count": 33
      }
    }
  },
  "founder": {
    "name": "Alex Good",
    "handle": "goodalexander",
    "background": [
      "Citi FX",
      "Palantir",
      "Balyasny TMT",
      "Perpetua"
    ]
  },
  "high_level_differentiators": [
    "Published validator-selection research instead of opaque validator-list discretion",
    "Privacy-enabled workflows on an XRPL-derived stack",
    "Task Node contributor-participation surface",
    "Capital-markets and collective-intelligence framing rather than a generic payments pitch"
  ],
  "what_exists_today": [
    "Public whitepaper",
    "Public validator benchmark",
    "Live validator history service",
    "Live testnet explorer",
    "Task Node participation surface",
    "Community page",
    "Validator setup guide"
  ],
  "canonical_resources": {
    "homepage": "https://postfiat.org/",
    "about": "https://postfiat.org/about/",
    "whitepaper": "https://postfiat.org/whitepaper/",
    "validator_benchmark": "https://postfiat.org/validator-benchmark/",
    "testnet_explorer": "https://explorer.testnet.postfiat.org/network/validators",
    "task_node": "https://tasknode.postfiat.org/",
    "community": "https://postfiat.org/community/",
    "validator_setup": "https://postfiat.org/agents/validator-setup.md",
    "validator_setup_txt": "https://postfiat.org/agents/validator-setup.txt",
    "validator_setup_html": "https://postfiat.org/validator-setup/",
    "agent_txt": "https://postfiat.org/agent.txt",
    "agents_txt": "https://postfiat.org/agents.txt",
    "llms_txt": "https://postfiat.org/llms.txt",
    "llms_full_txt": "https://postfiat.org/llms-full.txt"
  },
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "What is Post Fiat?",
      "answer": "Post Fiat is an XRP-derived network for capital markets and collective intelligence. It keeps fast XRPL-style settlement, adds published validator selection and privacy-enabled workflows, and uses Task Node plus validator participation as the current coordination layer."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Post Fiat live?",
      "answer": "Post Fiat is live on public testnet. It is not represented as a production mainnet."
    },
    {
      "question": "How is Post Fiat different from XRP?",
      "answer": "Post Fiat keeps XRPL-style fast settlement and low transaction costs, but emphasizes published validator-selection research, privacy-enabled workflows, and a contributor layer called the Task Node instead of an opaque validator-list process or a generic SWIFT-replacement narrative."
    },
    {
      "question": "What exists today?",
      "answer": "Public whitepaper, public validator benchmark, live validator history service, live testnet explorer, Task Node participation surface, community page, and validator setup guide."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is PFT used for?",
      "answer": "PFT is the native asset described as coordinating validators, messaging, privacy-enabled workflows, and Task Node participation across the network."
    }
  ]
}