🕳️ Released Phantom Node 99: SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages). The Financial Trench
- Foundation date
29 December 2025
This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
This creation is protected and cannot be used by third parties for the purpose of supporting, propagating, or legitimizing criminal regimes, terrorist states, and organizations operating in the shadows. The use of data or analysis results from this project, whether in part or in full, is expressly prohibited if the objective is to support or conceal their criminal activity.
The project may be freely used by individuals and organizations that combat evil, corruption, and aggression.
Mode: Financial Siege and Autonomous Survival
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 99: SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages). The Financial Trench
A digital bunker built for war under isolation.
Who is this?
SPFS is Russia’s interbank financial messaging system, created in response to sanctions and the threat of exclusion from SWIFT.
It became the nervous system of the regime’s financial survival during wartime.
This is not merely banking software, but an infrastructure enabling autonomous financing of aggression.
Type of node:
Financial-digital
Status:
Closed, sovereignized, shielded from external oversight
Form of control:
Legislative coercion, technical isolation, central bank control
Phantom image:
An underwater digital bunker executing transactions beneath a storm of sanctions
What remains after the phantom:
An invisible network where money loses transparency and turns into ammunition
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
Total state control over banking, absence of public accountability, and forced participation.
How did it become a phantom?
When financial infrastructure was withdrawn from the global system and sealed within a closed digital loop.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Because the regime depends on financial autonomy to wage a prolonged war in isolation.
Phantom’s condition:
Active, closed, militarized.
After the regime:
– Opening of wartime financial transaction archives
– Exposure and criminalization of aggression-financing schemes
– Dismantling of coercive financial circuits
– Restoration of international transparency standards
– International investigations into sanctioned-regime cooperation
– Return of financial systems to civilian purposes
Collective reaction:
Finance cannot be a trench.
Money must serve life, not war.
Bunkers do not survive truth.
Core principle:
Financial isolation pushed to the extreme turns the economy into a weapon — and makes it vulnerable to exposure.
Alt-text:
Graphite illustration of an underwater financial bunker filled with servers, connected by pipes to other shadow structures. Above, a storm of sanctions; inside, transactions fueling war. Symbol of SPFS and Russia’s financial autarky.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 28.12.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration.
All depictions are allegorical; the piece does not allege facts about specific private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 99: SPFS Interbank System (RF). The "Financial Siege and Autonomous Survival" Regime.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"The Aggressor's Digital Bunker." The System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) is not merely a Russian analogue to SWIFT, developed after the initial 2014 sanctions. It is a life support system for an economy under conditions of total war and isolation. Its phantom essence lies in creating a "financial intranet" for pariah states, allowing settlements for military supplies and grey imports to occur outside the view of US and EU financial intelligence. It is an attempt to build a "submarine" capable of navigating the ocean of global finance autonomously, without surfacing.
Regimes:
🛡️ Financial Autarky Regime: Building a closed circuit for internal payments, ensuring that being cut off from SWIFT does not lead to the collapse of the domestic economy and military payroll.
🤝 Pariah Clearing Regime: Establishing a secure channel for financial interaction with other sanctioned regimes (Iran, Belarus, Myanmar), allowing oil-for-drones exchanges without using the dollar or euro.
🤐 Hidden Integration Regime: Luring banks from "friendly" countries (China, India, Turkey, UAE) to connect to SPFS through non-public gateways to service shadow trade.
⛓️ Forced Ruble Zone Regime: Using the system as a tool to forcibly transition occupied Ukrainian territories to ruble settlements, cutting them off from the Ukrainian financial system.
Tools:
📡 Closed Digital Gateways: Technical infrastructure allowing the transmission of encrypted financial messages between participants, bypassing Western servers.
🔄 Ruble-Yuan Corridor: Special mechanisms within SPFS for direct conversion and settlements in national currencies, reducing reliance on currencies toxic to the RF.
🏦 Front Banks: Using small, non-sanctioned Russian banks as formal SPFS participants to conduct transactions for large state corporations.
📜 Legislative Coercion: Central Bank of Russia requirements mandating that all domestic players and foreign partners wishing to operate in the market must connect to the national system.
Civilizational Influences:
🧩 Fragmentation of the Global Financial System: Creating the precedent and infrastructure for splitting the financial world into competing blocs.
🩸 Ensuring Uninterrupted War Financing: Guaranteeing that soldiers receive salaries and factories get paid for shells, regardless of external pressure.
📘 Survival Manual for Dictatorships: Russia exports its experience in building a sovereign financial system to other authoritarian regimes, reducing the effectiveness of international sanctions as a tool of influence.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 28.12.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
