Revisiting the initial Safecoin Design for native Token

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Here’s a link to my follow up questions:

Update 3rd July, 2025

Thanks team and @Chriso for responding on this, even when you knew it would lead to more questions … first an observation: this makes it look like we could have had native token, and providing the technical work remaining can be completed maybe we can now so… how big are the remaining code/technical issues (eg minor, significant, some hard problems left)? do regulatory issues remain a blocker for Autonomi being able to include this in the codebase, and if so will that remain the case i…

And to my reply above raising the question about whether DBCs are still an option for native:

Revisiting the initial Safecoin Design for native Token

Throwing a curved ball into this. Why did they abandon digital bearer certificates? (There’s actually an implementation of this I believe by the guy who invented the idea, using Blockchain I think.) It was a really great tech - discussed here before - but had one weakness: the need to trust a centralised mint to validate transactions. I understood that the network could perform that function and solve that problem, and for a long time that was the approach MaidSafe were working on. They abando…