Most enterprises aren't at war. They're racing to win.
Thousands of crew, billions in infrastructure, months to deploy. Built for distributed force projection against hostile adversaries. You can't win a race with a ship that never leaves the shipyard.
Transaction fees that swing 20% in a day. Gas prices that spike when you need them most. A blockchain that's uninsurable by any reasonable standard. Who builds critical infrastructure in a casino?
No cryptocurrency, no price volatility, no consensus theatre. Costs are predictable, budgetable, boring - exactly how enterprise infrastructure should be. Centralised consensus means no 51% attacks. Secure one clock properly instead of defending against the entire internet.
An immutable record. Nothing more.
Cryptocurrencies are one use case, but they've come to dominate blockchain discourse - the tail wagging the dog. Most enterprises don't need tokens, mining, or distributed consensus among strangers.
They need proof that a record existed at a specific time in a specific form, and that it hasn't been tampered with since.
SneakyB provides all the advantages of blockchain immutability - without the exposure to crypto.
nRich is building a token-based rewards system for its members. Tokens earned through engagement. Tokens unlocking benefits, discounts, and future NFT-style digital assets.
The obvious path was ERC-20 - Ethereum's established token standard. But ERC-20 brings baggage. Price volatility: token values fluctuating with crypto markets. Regulatory exposure: scrutiny that a membership rewards programme doesn't need. Code complexity: smart contract development requiring specialised expertise and rigorous auditing. Time to market: months of development before the first token moves.
nRich built SneakyB. We designed our own token. We run our own clock. We trust ourselves - we are the enterprise. Deployment took weeks. The system is live, extensible, and ready to evolve into NFT-style assets when the time comes.
A regulated utilities operator manages safety-critical documentation across distributed sites. Risk assessments. Isolation plans. Permit-to-work records. Audit trails.
These documents matter most after something goes wrong.
When an incident occurs, the questions are brutal: When was this risk assessment created? Was the isolation plan signed off before work began? Can you prove the audit was completed?
Current systems cannot answer with cryptographic certainty. Documents live in SharePoint folders, paper files, databases with admin access. Timestamps can be questioned. Version histories can be challenged. In a coronial inquiry, doubt is expensive.
Sneaky provides immutable proof. Every document hashed and timestamped on-chain. The enterprise runs the clock. Records cannot be backdated, altered, or deleted. The audience for this proof - regulators, insurers, courts - doesn't need to trust a distributed network. They need to trust that the company couldn't have tampered with its own records.
For the most critical records, trust anchoring writes hashes to a public chain. Defence in depth. Cryptographic proof available to anyone who asks.
The London insurance market has spent billions on blockchain modernisation programmes. Most never left the shipyard.
The irony: the trust anchor already exists. Lloyd's. The bureaux. Three centuries of intermediary infrastructure. The market doesn't need distributed consensus among hostile strangers. Participants already trust the central institutions.
What they lack is an immutable record layer that doesn't introduce new risks.
Co-insurance placements involve multiple syndicates sharing a single risk. Each needs proof of their share, terms, timestamps, endorsements, amendments. Currently: manual reconciliation, version control chaos, disputes about who agreed to what and when.
Crypto-based blockchains fail at the first hurdle. Insurers price risk for a living. They will not accept infrastructure costs that swing with the market. Price volatility is an unacceptable exposure for an industry built on eliminating unpredictable losses.
Sneaky: no cryptocurrency, no volatility, predictable costs. Lloyd's or a market bureau runs the clock. Syndicates record placements, endorsements, amendments, claims triggers. Immutable. Verifiable. Auditable. Reconciliation becomes trivial. Disputes become rare.
The market gains infrastructure it has needed for decades - without another five-year transformation programme.
The organisation runs its own trust anchor. Internal stakeholders, auditors, and regulators accept the enterprise's authority over its own records.
Examples: nRich, Utilities Operator
A trusted third party operates the clock for multiple participants. Participants don't fully trust each other, but they all accept the intermediary.
Example: London Market (Lloyd's)
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