A Miami holding company. We build and hold the companies making digital money durable — starting with Permara.
Durable money is an engineering problem.
It has been solved before.
Constantine’s mint struck it in 312 at seventy-two to the Roman pound. What made it money was not the gold: it was that nobody changed the standard for the next seven hundred years.
A stable currency, seventeen centuries before anyone needed the word.
In 1982 Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease asked how generals besieging a city could agree on a plan when their only messengers might be lying to them.
Solving it produced Byzantine fault tolerance — the reason a network of strangers can keep one honest ledger. It is the mathematics under every blockchain running today.
The coin divides. Each fragment keeps its own copy of the record.
No participant is asked to trust another — only to compare notes.
Inconsistent reports are checked against the rest — and rejected.
The honest majority settles on one shared state. The structure holds.
One empire, two inheritances: durable money, and a way to agree without trust.
Not a fund and not a studio: a holding company that owns operating businesses and intends to keep them.
Stability over spectacle
We would rather own something that still works in 2050 than something that trends this quarter.
Engineering over promises
Where a claim can be replaced by a proof, we replace it. The rest is marketing.
Decades over quarters
No fund clock and no exit window, so nothing has to be sold at the wrong moment.
Byzantine Solidus is the holding company. Permara is its first holding — held inside the structure, permanently.
Two decades of management consulting and accounting — telecommunications to shipbuilding — and operations across Europe, Asia, and South America.
Twenty years in fintech, payments, and digital identity; built platforms acquired by Groupon and HelloFresh, and co-founded Cerebrum.
Twenty-five years in payments at Worldpay, FreedomPay, and Paysafe; former governing-council member of Hedera and Klaytn.
Serial founder across food ingredients, medical supply, and beverages, with operating companies on four continents.
Byzantium was a port. It sat on the strait where Europe faces Asia, and made its living on what passed through. Miami is ours — the crypto capital of the world, where new money meets open water. One parallel is enough.