by margaux | Apr 28, 2026 | Previous Writings
You’ve used it to write an email, plan a trip, or simply ask something you didn’t want to google. It answered instantly, in full sentences, like it knew exactly what you meant. It sounds like a fully thought-through response. But AI doesn’t actually...
by margaux | Apr 21, 2026 | Previous Writings
Your weather app refreshed this morning because someone’s code ran perfectly in space before you woke up. A satellite passed over a ground station. Data moved through a pipeline spanning thousands of miles. Nobody noticed. That’s the point. We talk about...
by margaux | Feb 10, 2026 | Previous Writings
Across reservation-based industries, prepayment has become a common price of certainty. From concert tickets to conference sponsorships, businesses felt confident that if the money moved early, the commitment was real. In today’s economy, that logic is under pressure....
by margaux | Jan 5, 2026 | Previous Writings
For over a century, traditional Letters of Credit have powered up to 15% of all global trade, securing more than a trillion dollars’ worth of goods each year. The core concept being to enable a more reliable way to provide promises from one company to another....
by margaux | Dec 29, 2025 | Previous Writings
Whether you’re extending credit, securing reservations, or simply relying on a client to follow through with a payment in the future, traditional financial options like deposits, down payments, credit card holds, or ACH transfers often create delays and uncertainty...
by margaux | Dec 29, 2025 | Previous Writings
Wouldn’t it be great if you could prove your creditworthiness simply by using your existing digital holdings as collateral? Anvil’s platform, or ‘dApp’, enables you to do exactly that by issuing a secure onchain promise called a digital Letter of Credit, or simply...