Integration
Requirements
Westwyrd integration is a structured four-phase process designed to ensure that counterparties meet technical, legal, and operational requirements before accessing production settlement infrastructure. All phases are sequential and each must be completed before the next begins.
All institutional counterparties must complete four sequential integration phases. No partial or accelerated access is available. Each phase is a prerequisite for the next — the protocol enforces this sequentially at the integration management layer, and production credentials are issued only upon confirmed completion of all prior phases.
Technical requirements are non-negotiable: dedicated server infrastructure with no shared hosting, TLS 1.3 for all API connections, and HMAC-SHA256 authentication with time-bounded nonces. These requirements exist because the settlement protocol's security model assumes that counterparty infrastructure is hardened — a compromised integration endpoint represents a systemic risk, not just a per-counterparty risk.
Legal requirements run parallel to technical onboarding. A signed Master Service Agreement must be in place before any staging environment access is granted. KYC/AML documentation per applicable jurisdiction must be completed and verified by Westwyrd's compliance function. A designated technical contact must be identified as the primary point of contact for the integration lifecycle.
The application phase establishes organizational identity and use case legitimacy. Submissions are reviewed for completeness within one business day and assessed for fit within two additional days. Accepted applicants proceed to technical review. Rejected applicants receive written rationale with reapplication eligibility.
The Westwyrd engineering team reviews the counterparty's technical architecture for compatibility with protocol requirements. The review covers integration design, security practices, cryptographic implementation, and operational procedures. Custom circuit components receive a formal verification review.
Staging provides a production-equivalent environment including chain state, contract deployments, and observability infrastructure. Counterparties run the complete integration test suite, execute load testing to verify rate limit behavior, and complete a security review. Minimum 14-day period with no exceptions.
Production access is granted through a governance transaction that adds counterparty addresses to the settlement contract whitelist. Requires 3-of-5 multisig authorization. Post-activation monitoring runs for 30 days with enhanced alerting thresholds before transitioning to standard SLA parameters.
Suspension is immediate for confirmed security violations. Other causes allow 72-hour cure period with written notice.