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Notes from the licensing layer
Engineering, product, and research from the team building Polaris.
Why we anchor licences on Solana
Licence records are worthless if the vendor can quietly rewrite them. Here is why we put provenance on a public ledger, and what that costs us.
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- Product
Shipping the Polaris SDK for JUCE
A licensing SDK that adds 40MB and a Rust toolchain to your plugin build is not a licensing SDK. It is a tax. Notes on shipping something small.
- Infrastructure
Rate limiting licence validation at the edge
One customer's misconfigured plugin sent us four million validation calls in a morning. What we changed, and what we should have done first.
- Research
What plugin piracy actually looks like in 2026
We looked at anonymised activation patterns across the platform. The story is less dramatic and more structural than the forum consensus suggests.
- Design
Designing an offline-tolerant activation flow
Studios record in rooms with no network on purpose. A licence check that fails closed in an airplane-mode session is a bug, not a security feature.