Research

Stake for Service: A Better Way to Pay on Rialo

Blockchains have always faced an awkward split between capital and consumption. Users stake tokens to secure the network and earn yield, but they still need separate balances to pay for gas, storage, and recurring operations. That divide makes onchain systems more complicated to use, harder to budget, and harder to scale. Rialo’s Stake-for-Service (SfS) bridges that gap. It converts staking yield into live service credits that automatically pay for network costs. Instead of managing wallets and top-ups, users and contracts can fund their activity directly from the rewards their capital already produces.

Building Native Privacy for Real-World Blockchain Adoption

Over the years, public blockchains have shown that it is possible to build open, verifiable systems that handle valuable transactions at scale. However, despite continuous improvements in performance and scalability, blockchain technology has yet to see massive adoption. The biggest crypto-native applications have a fraction of the average web2 application’s user base, and many are confined to a narrow set of use cases. The problem has less to do with cost and speed and more with the inability of (public) blockchains to handle sensitive information privately and securely. Modern software depends on “secrets” such as personally identifiable information (PII), authentication credentials, API keys, proprietary data, and other information not intended to be accessible to unauthorized individuals or systems. Because blockchains are open and transparent, web3 applications cannot offer the same guarantees and benefits as traditional web2 applications.

How Rialo Secures Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are where information becomes money. They allow people to trade on the likelihood of future events–anything from election outcomes and sports results to geopolitical milestones and technological breakthroughs. Since accurate predictions earn rewards, participants are incentivized to act on what they know. Someone with private knowledge (e.g., an insider at a tech company or a geopolitical expert) has a good reason to express that knowledge by taking a market position.

Rialo Foundations I: Double Marginalization in Crypto

When developers complain that crypto applications are expensive to build and hard to run profitably, they often blame gas fees, scaling limits, or user friction. But there’s another, deeper issue at play: the compounding cost of middleware.

Beyond Bundles and Bots: Building the Future of Autonomous Finance on Rialo

The limitations your team and developers across the industry are facing are not a sign that programmable money is a failed promise. They are a sign that we have been trying to build the future of finance on infrastructure that was never designed for the job.

Making the Agent Economy Simple and Safe with Rialo

At Subzero Labs, we believe that the AI systems that will have the greatest impact on humanity will be decentralized.

Rialo Makes Real World Assets Real

Real-world assets (RWAs) are one of blockchain’s biggest promises and biggest letdowns. Billions in tokenized treasuries, real estate, and credit already exist, yet they still behave like slow, clunky replicas of their off-chain counterparts.