The governed core, named.
Alpine moves money by API — accounts you open, transfers between them, the fee on top, every state recorded, every account governed. Here is the whole system, named and explained.
Open an account.
Move money between accounts.
Take your fee.
Every step is an event · every account is governed
- transfer.requested09:42:01
- appfee.assessed09:42:01
specimen tr_3Vd7Qfollow it: the call that created it →
Everything lives inside your organisation.
An organisation holds your applications. An application runs in an environment; accounts — and the endpoints that receive into them — live inside it. A key opens exactly one application in one environment, so a sandbox balance is never confused with a live one.
Switch the environment → the key re-scopes, the accounts re-show.
- acc_8xK2receives
- acc_2Kp9receives
ak_test_2Kp → Live · refused
The system, named.
6 concepts · read anyGoverned under every account
and every transfer.
Gates before movement
KYC and KYB readiness is checked before an account or transfer can move. Posture is verified, not assumed.
A complete record
Every state change is an event, read and replayed. Nothing happens off the record.
Team and access
A team carries scoped permissions and an audit of who did what. Nothing moves unattributed.
Held by VantaCrest
Built on the institution's governed infrastructure, answerable to one mandate.