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Who this is for
One property defines the customer, and it is not a sector. You take in assets you did not originate and credit them to your own ledger. If you do not know a deposit’s enforcement status before you credit it, the loss lands on you when a freeze does. This page is who that describes, and where each of them wires it in.
Five shapes of the same exposure
The sector changes what flows in. It does not change where the risk sits: a crediting step that happens before the enforcement status of the funds is known.
| Who it is for | What flows in | Why the enforcement state matters at credit |
|---|---|---|
| OTC desks and market-maker vaults | Client settlement, in and out, at high frequency and high value. | A single frozen settlement eats the spread earned on many clean ones. This is the flow already paying for enforcement tooling, and the one that clears the most deposits in a day. |
| Payment channels and acquiring | Merchant settlement and payout, often notified asynchronously. | You credit a merchant before the on-chain settlement is anyone else’s concern. If those funds were under enforcement, the reversal has no counterparty to fall back on — it is you. |
| Cross-chain bridges | Lock on one chain, mint or release on another. | The mint is a credit decision. Releasing against funds being frozen on the origin side turns one deposit into a standing shortfall in the bridge’s reserves. |
| Perpetual-DEX margin vaults | Margin deposits that become withdrawable collateral. | Collateral that should never have been credited can be traded against before anyone looks again. The crediting step is exactly where a decision that never fails open belongs. |
| Custodial wallets and PSPs | Top-ups and inbound transfers recorded to a user’s balance. | Every top-up is a deposit booked against your own ledger. A freeze on funds you already credited is a shortfall you carry, not the user who sent them. |
What they have in common
None of them originate the funds they credit. Each moves someone else’s assets onto its own books and becomes liable for them there. The names differ; the exposure is one shape. Foreshock puts a single call at the crediting step — and, standing behind it, continuous verification of who currently holds the authority to freeze those assets, with a blind spot reported as a blind spot rather than read as an all-clear.
How each of them wires it in
The integration is the same regardless of which of the above you are, which is why there is no per-sector variant to choose. One call before you credit, a client that treats every non-answer as HOLD, and a webhook for what changes after the fact.
- The fail-closed client contract Read this one first. A verdict only ever arrives in a 200; every error, timeout and outage on either side is HOLD, and enforcing that is your client’s job as much as ours.
- Integrating the credit gate The one call per inbound deposit, made before you credit it, with a stable idempotency key and a branch for every outcome.
- Webhook delivery What reaches you after a decision — a freeze executing, an authority moving, a list changing — and a reconciliation path that does not depend on any single delivery arriving.