Skip to content
8BraidCreators of 8DB
8Braid / Finance & financial infrastructure
8DB / Finance & financial infrastructure

Protect the record.
Preserve the evidence.

Financial information can remain sensitive through years of system, vendor and cryptographic change. 8DB brings encrypted storage, governed exchange and connected evidence into an embeddable engine for the applications your institution or customers rely on.

Scope a financial-data evaluation ↗Inspect the evidence
The migration problem

A stronger connection is one part of a longer data lifecycle.

A client file or counterparty record may survive several application upgrades, multiple authorized copies and a backup restore. A useful migration has to account for the stored information and the rules that govern its recovery, as well as the next network connection.

The G7 Cyber Expert Group’s January 2026 roadmap emphasizes cryptographic inventory, third-party dependencies, testing and ongoing validation.[1] BIS Project Leap also shows how a PQC payment-system experiment creates integration work across components.[2] Start with a data workflow whose boundaries and success criteria your team can define.

Where 8DB fits

Make one sensitive workflow ready for change.

Long-lived records

Keep the history usable.

Evaluate client documents, agreements and supporting evidence as a connected record set. Measure confidentiality, exact recovery and access after a policy or algorithm change.

Controlled collaboration

Protect the exchanged copy.

For an integrated schema, evaluate recipient-specific node protection across approved participants. Specify which endpoints may open the data and how their local copies are protected.

Financial software vendors

Bring the controls into the product.

Embed the engine in a records, review or data-exchange application. Compare the integration effort and operating cost against your current storage and security stack.

Illustrative evaluation

Follow a counterparty dossier through a change in authority.

Assemble: connect documents, ownership relationships and the sources behind the review.

Share: deliver the permitted records to an authenticated participant and retain the evidence of that exchange.

Change and recover: update access, migrate a stored-data cryptographic version, restore an earlier copy and check the current rules.

This is a proposed acceptance workflow. The published Required node profile begins with canonical lexical records; financial schemas and business controls are integrated and qualified for the application.[3]

Evidence before a production decision

Measure the full cost of the protection you need.

8DB’s controlled record-cipher comparison keeps a 115-byte record at 131 encrypted bytes under both classical and PQC key-establishment paths. The same per-record cipher explains that equality. Key envelopes, signatures, indexes, network frames and operational work have separate costs.[4]

Four retained, four-CPU-limited 100,000-record migration runs cold-verified exact data. One met the declared read deadlines; three recorded misses.[5] Those outcomes define what a workload-specific evaluation must improve or reproduce.

Your acceptance plan should measure latency tails, throughput, storage growth, wire bytes, recovery and current-authority behavior together. Existing component results provide a starting point for that measurement.

Inspect the evidence by question ↗Compare integration approaches ↗
For security, data and platform teams

Make the decision on a shared set of results.

Choose the application boundary, approved cryptographic profile, custody arrangements and operational limits. 8DB’s reviewed composition supports a software-only evaluation without a required HSM or cloud key-service call. Institutional custody, validation and approval requirements shape the deployment plan.

What the roadmap and current results establish

The G7 roadmap is non-prescriptive and creates no regulatory expectations. BIS Project Leap is external research, not an 8DB deployment. The 8DB record-size fixture measures a cryptographic component; financial transaction throughput, production readiness and compliance approval require application-specific evidence.[1][2][4]

Sources / checked September 16, 2026

Follow the claims to their sources.

  1. G7 Cyber Expert Group PQC roadmap, January 2026 ↗

    A non-prescriptive framework for inventory, migration planning, testing and validation, including vendor dependencies.

  2. BIS Project Leap Phase 2, December 2025 ↗

    An isolated payment-system integration experiment using pre-standard Dilithium. Its signature-verification measurements do not establish 8DB performance.

  3. 8DB protected-node qualification, September 16, 2026 ↗

    Implementation, admitted schemas and current qualification boundaries.

  4. 8DB record-size measurements ↗

    Same-cipher comparison and separate cost accounting.

  5. 8DB four-CPU-limited migration runs ↗

    All four retained outcomes, operating conditions and deadline checks.