What ONS enables
OpenGDP Network Stack enables teams to launch purpose-built networks for mission-critical economic workflows. Common network types include:- Sovereign networks: Public finance, regulated disbursements, procurement, collections, and national economic infrastructure.
- Institutional networks: Tokenized assets, settlement, liquidity, compliance controls, and lifecycle operations.
- Enterprise networks: Treasury movement, supplier payments, usage credits, reconciliation, and workflow automation.
- Sector networks: Industry-specific markets, rules, participants, compliance requirements, and settlement workflows.
- Developer networks: Application-specific environments for builders that need dedicated performance, control, or configuration.
Why dedicated economic networks
Some economic workflows need custom infrastructure. A public-sector disbursement network may require strict eligibility rules, oversight, and selective disclosure. An institutional asset network may require participant permissions, transfer controls, lifecycle operations, and audit-ready records. An enterprise treasury network may require dedicated settlement flows, supplier payment logic, reconciliation exports, and internal policy rules. A sector network may require custom market rules, data integrations, liquidity sources, and compliance processes. ONS gives each network the ability to define its own operating environment while remaining connected to OpenGDP.Core capabilities
OpenGDP Network Stack provides:- Custom rules: Define network-level policies, permissions, participants, assets, and workflows.
- Configurable privacy: Protect sensitive operational data while supporting disclosure for counterparties, auditors, regulators, or internal teams.
- Dedicated execution: Launch environments with dedicated capacity and performance characteristics for mission-critical workloads.
- Shared security: Benefit from OpenGDP security infrastructure without bootstrapping a network from scratch.
- Interoperability: Connect dedicated networks to OpenGDP Network, other ONS networks, and external ecosystems.
- Settlement and liquidity access: Use OpenGDP settlement, routing, conversion, and liquidity primitives across network-specific workflows.
- Operational control: Preserve governance, auditability, observability, and reconciliation across network activity.
Design goals
ONS is designed around five goals:- Control: Networks can define their own rules, permissions, privacy, and operating constraints.
- Speed: Teams can launch dedicated economic networks faster than building custom infrastructure from scratch.
- Interoperability: Networks remain connected to OpenGDP settlement, liquidity, and ecosystem infrastructure.
- Security: Networks benefit from shared security and validator infrastructure.
- Auditability: Network activity can produce receipts, traces, reconciliation records, and export-ready logs.