Bazfin adopts a comparative methodological approach to the study of decentralised systems. Rather than beginning from a single theoretical framework, it examines multiple architectural traditions in parallel, with the aim of identifying recurring structural problems and contrasting strategies for their resolution.
The primary objects of analysis are architectures: patterns of organisation that shape how information is distributed, how decisions are made, and how coordination is achieved or fails. Emphasis is placed on internal structure, control relations, and the allocation of attention, rather than on surface behaviour alone.
Multi-agent systems provide one point of departure. These systems offer explicit models of decentralised decision-making, local interaction, and emergent global behaviour. They are examined both for their formal properties and for the limitations that arise as scale, heterogeneity, or uncertainty increase.
Blackboard and workspace-based models are treated as a distinct architectural family. These models introduce shared representational resources and mechanisms of selective access, offering a different approach to coordination and integration. Analysis focuses on how such architectures balance distributed contribution with global coherence, and on the conditions under which bottlenecks or instabilities emerge.
Architectural ideas are not confined to artificial systems. Human cognition, social institutions, and markets are examined as domains in which related coordination problems recur, albeit under different constraints. Comparisons across domains are used to clarify which architectural features appear robust and which are domain-specific.
Financial markets are employed as empirical material rather than as a primary object of theory. Their decentralised structure, rich data, and observable feedback mechanisms make them a useful context in which to examine coordination, signalling, and breakdown, while avoiding the assumption that market-specific models generalise unproblematically to other domains.
Throughout, analogies are treated cautiously. Similarities in architectural form do not imply identity of function or interpretation. The methodology therefore places equal weight on identifying limits of comparison, points of failure, and cases where apparent parallels break down.
The methodological stance of Bazfin is exploratory and analytical rather than prescriptive. Its aim is to support clearer thinking about decentralised systems by making architectural assumptions explicit and by situating models within a broader comparative landscape.