Monthly Report - December 2025

TL;DR

Business & Partnerships:

• Month of Pitching (Announcements in January) - December focused on high-volume partner conversations, institutional outreach, and pipeline maturation. Rather than pushing holiday-season news, we chose to sequence communications properly: multiple tracks moved from exploratory talks into execution planning, with public announcements scheduled to begin in January 2026.
  
  

• Partnership Discussions at Scale - We deepened conversations across industry and academia around deploying Ratio1 for privacy-preserving compute, verifiable AI, and sovereign infrastructure. The recurring signal: demand is shifting from “interesting tech” to deployable trustless systems that can withstand regulatory scrutiny and supply-chain constraints.

Technology & Platform Evolution:

• RedMesh Demand Spike - RedMesh drew significant interest from both companies and institutions as regulations and real-world threat velocity force a move from point-in-time pentesting to continuous, provable cyber resilience. The decentralized “offensive security grid” model - stealthy distributed testing, no single point of failure, and blockchain-anchored evidence - resonated as a practical path to auditor-ready, always-on assurance.
  
  

• Narrative Consolidation for 2026 Releases - The team used December to refine product messaging, sharpen go-to-market sequencing, and align partner pilots around concrete deployment patterns - setting up a clearer, more structured release cadence for early 2026.

Application Ecosystem Growth:

• 3send Launch (First Community Product) - 3send became the first public, community-built product shipped on Ratio1: an open-source wallet-to-wallet file transfer tool deployed on Base. It validates Ratio1 as product-grade infrastructure (CStore + R1FS) and delivers the first live example of a user-facing app that natively drives the protocol’s economic loop through on-chain R1 burns per transfer - the flywheel in motion.

Community & Outreach:

• Ecosystem Energy Shift: From Builders to Products - 3send signals a transition into the “product era” of Ratio1: independent builders can ship sovereign apps that feel Web2-simple while remaining cryptographically secure, decentralized, and economically aligned with the protocol.

General - December as the Month of Pitching (and Quiet Momentum)

December was less about shipping loud releases and more about tightening the narrative, pressure-testing the roadmap, and having the right conversations with the right people. If November was the month of industrialization, December became the month of pitching - a focused stretch of partner discussions, institutional outreach, and pipeline building that sets up a wave of formal announcements starting in January.

Across these conversations, one theme repeated: organizations want trustless AI infrastructure that can survive regulatory scrutiny, supply-chain constraints, and the growing demand for provable accountability. December helped us validate that Ratio1 isn’t just technologically differentiated - it’s increasingly strategically differentiated. We spent the month aligning potential partners around concrete deployment pathways (pilots, consortium cooperation, internal PoCs), while refining how we position Ratio1 as a neutral layer where applications, infrastructure operators, and the broader community all share upside.

The outcome: stronger relationships, clearer go-to-market sequencing, and multiple partnership tracks moving from “exploration” into “execution planning” - with public-facing steps scheduled to begin rolling out in January 2026.

Partnerships & Pipeline - Discussions Now, Announcements Next

December was dense with partnership activity, but intentionally quiet in public. We used the month to run a disciplined process: scoping needs, mapping stakeholders, aligning expectations on governance and data boundaries, and building confidence that Ratio1 can plug into real operational environments without compromising sovereignty.

Several discussions matured into “announcement-ready” territory - but rather than rush press releases into the holiday season, we chose to stage communications properly. The goal is not just to announce partnerships, but to announce momentum with structure: clear roles, clear outcomes, and clear next steps.

Expect January to mark the start of a more visible cadence as these partnership threads convert into named initiatives, pilots, and ecosystem releases.

Technology Spotlight - RedMesh Interest Signals a Market Shift

In December, RedMesh emerged as one of the most consistently requested topics in partner discussions - not just from startups, but from companies and institutions that are feeling the collision between real-world threat velocity and new compliance expectations.

The interest is not accidental. Across Europe, cybersecurity has moved from “periodic assurance” to continuous resilience, driven by frameworks like NIS 2, CRA, and DORA. Traditional pentesting - point-in-time tests, static reports, centralized scanners - doesn’t match that world anymore. It’s too easy to block, too noisy to trust, too geographically limited to reflect reality, and too easy to dispute during audits.

RedMesh changes the model by treating offensive security like an always-on immune system:

• Decentralized execution on Ratio1 Edge Nodes enables globally distributed testing without a single point of failure.
  
  

• Stealth by design (“low & slow”) better mirrors real attackers and avoids trivial WAF blocking patterns.
  
  

• Cryptographic trust replaces reputational trust: blockchain-anchored evidence creates immutable, auditor-ready proof that tests happened and results weren’t altered.
  
  

• Continuous assurance becomes practical: security posture is not a PDF snapshot - it’s a living signal.

In short: December validated RedMesh not only as a technical milestone, but as a product-shaped answer to where cybersecurity regulation and operational reality are heading.

Ecosystem - 3send Becomes the First Community Product Wave Signal

December also marked an important ecosystem milestone: the public launch of 3send, the first community-built, user-facing product that demonstrates what the Ratio1 protocol was designed to enable.

3send matters because it takes Ratio1 primitives and turns them into something instantly understandable:
“Pick a wallet. Pick a file. Click Send.”

But underneath that simplicity is the point:

• CStore acts as the encrypted control plane (inbox metadata, deterministic reconstruction, censorship resistance).
  
  

• R1FS stores encrypted payloads via content addressing (no key, no access; no central server, no exhaust trail).
  
  

• Every interaction proves the economic loop in the wild: usage → R1 burn → ecosystem strengthening.

The deeper signal is what this implies for Ratio1’s trajectory. 3send didn’t require permission, proprietary backend infrastructure, or centralized operational dependencies. Two independent builders shipped a production-grade tool on top of Ratio1 - and in doing so, they provided a blueprint for the next wave: sovereign apps that feel simple, but inherit protocol-level guarantees by default.

3send is the first public marker that Ratio1 is entering its product era: a phase where community teams can ship real utilities that strengthen the protocol with every user interaction.

December in Perspective - Quiet Work, Lasting Momentum

December was not a month of spectacle - and that was by design. It was a month of alignment, conviction, and quiet momentum. While external activity slowed across the industry, Ratio1 used this time to do the kind of work that compounds: refining narratives, stress-testing assumptions, and ensuring that partnerships, products, and protocol evolution are moving in lockstep.

The signal across everything we touched was consistent. Organizations are no longer asking if decentralized, trustless infrastructure is needed - they are asking how and when they can deploy it responsibly. RedMesh conversations made clear that cybersecurity is entering a continuous era. The launch of 3send proved that Ratio1’s primitives are mature enough for real products, built independently, and used by real people. And the depth of December’s partnership discussions confirmed that Ratio1 is increasingly seen not as an experiment, but as a credible foundation layer.

As the year closed, Ratio1 stands in a different place than it did twelve months ago. The protocol is live. The economy is active. Applications are shipping. Builders are building. And the ecosystem is transitioning from theory and pilots into execution and visibility.

2026 1st quarter will be louder. December made it possible.

We’re entering 2026 with clarity, momentum, and a growing sense that the hard problems we chose to solve - trust, sovereignty, accountability - are exactly the ones the world now needs addressed.