About · the house

The institutional engine, now for the rest of us.

JIL Sovereign Retail is the consumer-tier expression of a thirty-five-year clearing practice. The same risk engine, evidence anchoring, and custody discipline that institutions license for seven figures — priced in units a person can commission without a procurement process.

The point

Intelligence is not a privilege.

For most of modern finance, the tools to verify a counterparty, to produce admissible evidence, to trace funds, and to safeguard papers were the domain of banks and the law firms that served them. Everyone else operated on faith and Google.

That was tolerable when transactions were slow, custody was centralised, and counterparties were almost always within jurisdiction. It is not tolerable now. The crypto economy moves at chain speed, custody is often on your own device, and your counterparty can be anyone.

JIL Sovereign Retail takes the institutional engine and exposes eleven discrete products, priced per check or per year, to anyone with a lawful purpose. No procurement cycle, no master services agreement, no seven-figure floor. Just the output, sealed and anchored, at the moment you need it.

Operating principles

Four commitments.

— I.

Institutional parity.

Retail tiers are downscoped, never down-engineered. The same Wallet Intelligence Engine, the same CourtChain anchor, the same evidentiary standard that clears nine-figure institutional flows.

— II.

Privacy by enforcement.

Retail products do not surface natural-person attribution. This is not a policy — it is enforced in code, in the query layer, and in every tier of access. Not a switch a sales person can flip.

— III.

Permissible use, only.

Every retail product carries a documented permissible purpose. Checks misused for FCRA-regulated decisions, unconsented surveillance, or doxxing are terminal violations of the agreement.

The ledger

Four numbers. No narrative.

$4.8B
Cleared, 2025
Aggregate settled value across institutional WIE flows.
152,041
CREB anchors
Evidence bundles sealed and anchored on CourtChain since 2021.
9.7s
Median SLA
Wallet Check · Tier I · time from submit to receipt.
0
Retail breaches
Since retail launch. Independently audited under SOC 2 Type II.
House history

Thirty-five years, patient.

We build slowly on purpose. A clearing engine cannot be rushed, and a retail product that depends on one is only as good as the thing underneath.

1991

Founded in lower Manhattan.

Originally as a private clearing office for a small set of institutional counterparties.

2007

WIE v1 deployed.

First generation of what became the Wallet Intelligence Engine, serving three exchanges.

2018

FRE 902(14) program.

Collaboration with outside counsel to build a self-authenticating evidence format suitable for federal court.

2021

CourtChain anchor.

Permanent public-ledger anchor for CREB. 15-year retention, unlimited re-issuance.

2026

Retail opens.

Eleven products, priced per check or per year, with institutional parity on depth.

Leadership

The retail table.

MH

Marion Hale

Partner · Retail

Leads retail product. Formerly Global Head of Counterparty Risk at a tier-one prime broker. Fifteen years at the intersection of compliance and product.

KO

Kenji Okafor

Partner · Engineering

Architect of the Wallet Intelligence Engine. Twenty-plus years in ledger, forensics, and distributed systems across the crypto and banking stacks.

RN

Rania Navarro

General counsel

Oversees permissible-use, evidentiary standards, and the CREB program. Former federal prosecutor; authored three filings cited in crypto-evidence case law.

TV

Thaddeus Voss

Head of Vault

Runs the Secure Document Vault and cryptographic custody program. Previously ran keys for a G-SIB private-banking arm.

Begin

Create an account and commission your first retail check in ninety seconds.