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AETHON CREDIT INTELLIGENCE — RESEARCH

Independent analytics for digital credit markets.

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Latest issueMay 2026
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SSRN working paper

Assessing Structural Risk in Digital Asset Products: A Traceable, Rules-Based Framework for Investment Due Diligence

Alex Kouam · September 2026

Digital asset investors need to understand the contractual and operational structure of the position they hold, as well as the quality of its underlying assets. This paper describes the Aethon Credit Intelligence framework as a way to organise that analysis. The approach combines product-specific criteria, explicit weights and structural score caps with a record of the evidence used. Its purpose is to make due diligence easier to compare and challenge.

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ACI Framework v1.0 — Methodology Overview

May 2026

How the ACI computational framework works: criteria, weights, hard caps and determinism, explained from first principles.

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ISSUE 002

Volatility Strategies — IV Regime and the K-Strike Decision

May 2026

How ACI reads DVOL to classify IV regime, and what the K=78k strike amendment means for the income computation.

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ISSUE 003

Tokenised RWA — Criteria and Evidence Standards

May 2026

What ACI requires from a tokenised RWA issuer to achieve a LOW risk band. Prospectus, legal opinion, SPV structure.

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