Joan Alavedra

And so OpenFort is basically a cloud solution for OpenSigner.

And therefore it follows an open source business model where developers that are savvy enough or for whatever reason they want to self-host OpenSigner, they can do it and it's completely free for them to do so.

But then those developers that perhaps are prioritizing shipping faster or

not taking care of like that part of the on hosting premise, et cetera, and they want to use OpenFOR directly, they then pay a monthly fee that is based on the active users that these wallets have to have the OpenFOR support on their platform.

Yeah.

I mean, for OpenFord, the 2026 thesis is that the costs to build a fintech product have dramatically decreased.

And so now it's easier and easier to build a product that has some sort of like a fintech angle to it.

With that in mind, what

we are doubling down on.

It's moving from an infrastructure-focused product to having a workflow-based product.

What I mean by that is that now we have the solid pieces to offer wallet infrastructure and these wallets being able to interact with blockchains easily.

And so what we want to emphasize and focus is how we specifically focus on different niches.

We can cover the workflow of that niche.

So that basically means putting an example, focusing on fintech and sports, like how elite sports teams are managing money, how they're paying their players, how they're paying their staff, how this staff and these players are managing that money.

Is there any specific workflows within those niches that stablecoins are better positioned to cover or to serve than traditional fintech rails?

And so if we make ourselves these questions from our different niches, I think we come up with like very interesting ideas and very interesting value propositions.

And so open for like, we want to focus in those questions and from those questions, like write down the workflows that can help us capture those niches.

That's such a great idea.

Technically speaking, I think like for instance, technically speaking at OpenFort, we started designing a product that was too much linked into the Ethereum ecosystem per se with like some assumptions that

You know, unfortunately for the ecosystem took longer to capitalize.