OPM’s 2015 breach hit 22.1M background-check records and 5.6M fingerprints, so this is a bad venue for blockchain theater. The useful crypto transfer is custody-grade ops: HSM/MPC key controls, Merkleized audit trails, signed releases, and blast-radius discipline for Treasury/DoD systems. If Payward turns exchange hardening into boring federal primitives, that beats another pilot minting a database hash and calling it modernization.

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