Exact BTC units
The contractual BTC amount is recorded once and cannot be silently repriced or changed during the tenancy.
Verifiable by third parties
Landlords, tenants, auditors, and counsel can inspect the contract, bond records, and Base settlement history.
Policy becomes evidence
Mutual assent, disclosures, fee attempts, Sentinel actions, and settlement decisions are logged for review.
Architecture
What happens if someone tries to bypass the agreement?
The transaction does not pause for an approval meeting. It fails. Huddle's core protection is a refusal path: unauthorized fees, settlement, emergency actions, and withdrawals cannot proceed unless the contract's signer and lifecycle rules are satisfied.
Contract invariant
if !authorized(action, state, signers): revert GoldenRuleViolation()
The control protects the agreement, not Bitcoin's market price. BTC and cbBTC can rise or fall in value during the tenancy.
Amount
Exact BTC units
Funding
Supported cbBTC
Custody
Coinbase custody configuration
Authority
Governed multisignature
Lifecycle evidence
Six checkpoints every counsel can understand.
The agreement records the exact BTC amount
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
The tenant funds that amount in supported cbBTC
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
Custody and signer authority are recorded
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
No unilateral early withdrawal is permitted
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
Sentinel logs alerts, decisions, and safety actions
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
Release, claim, or continuation follows the agreed process
Logged as part of the bond's operating record.
Legal review summary
This page replaces "trust us" with "verify it yourself."
Huddle's deposit protection exists to answer a practical institutional question: what happens to the tenant's deposit if a company, landlord, bank, or operator fails?
The answer is that the BTC amount and decision authority are recorded as contract-level rules. Every value-moving operation must satisfy those rules or the blockchain rejects it.
This document is technical product documentation, not legal, financial, or investment advice. Institutional users should review the contract code, disclosures, and jurisdiction-specific obligations with counsel.