diff --git a/apps/flipcash/app/build.gradle.kts b/apps/flipcash/app/build.gradle.kts
index d7ef61b2d2..fea7f6daa1 100644
--- a/apps/flipcash/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/apps/flipcash/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import com.android.build.api.artifact.SingleArtifact
 import com.android.build.api.variant.BuildConfigField
 import com.bugsnag.gradle.dsl.debug
 import com.bugsnag.gradle.dsl.release
@@ -194,6 +195,28 @@ kotlin {
     }
 }
 
+// Fails when an asset the app can't start without is missing from the merged assets. A library on
+// the KMP android target drops its assets unless it sets `androidResources { enable = true }`, and
+// that build still succeeds: :libs:currency-math lost its curve tables that way in #1894, and every
+// launch crashed (Bugsnag 6aadeebd).
+abstract class CheckPackagedAssets : DefaultTask() {
+    @get:InputFiles
+    @get:PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.RELATIVE)
+    abstract val assetsDir: DirectoryProperty
+
+    @get:Input
+    abstract val required: ListProperty<String>
+
+    @TaskAction
+    fun check() {
+        val dir = assetsDir.get().asFile
+        val missing = required.get().filterNot { dir.resolve(it).isFile }
+        if (missing.isNotEmpty()) {
+            throw GradleException("Merged assets in $dir are missing: ${missing.joinToString()}")
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // Expose Compose testTags as resource-ids (for UiAutomator/Maestro/baseline-profile
 // generation) on every variant EXCEPT the shipping `release` — keeps internal ids like
 // `seed_input_field` out of the production wallet build. Read in App.kt as
@@ -208,6 +231,17 @@ androidComponents {
                 "testTags exposed as resource-ids; false only for shipping release",
             ),
         )
+
+        val checkCurveAssets = tasks.register<CheckPackagedAssets>(
+            "check${variant.name.replaceFirstChar { it.uppercase() }}CurveAssets",
+        ) {
+            assetsDir.set(variant.artifacts.get(SingleArtifact.ASSETS))
+            required.set(listOf("discrete_pricing_table.bin", "discrete_cumulative_table.bin"))
+        }
+        if (variant.name == "release") {
+            tasks.matching { it.name == "bundleRelease" || it.name == "assembleRelease" }
+                .configureEach { dependsOn(checkCurveAssets) }
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index 1033c682a0..83acacc192 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -93,4 +93,6 @@ tasks.register("flipcashTestDebug") {
     dependsOn(gradle.includedBuild("build-logic").task(":convention:test"))
     // EVENTS.md is generated from events.toml but checked in; fail when someone edits one alone.
     dependsOn(":libs:analytics-events:checkAnalyticsEventsPage")
+    // The app's merged assets still carry the files it needs to start, such as the curve tables.
+    dependsOn(":apps:flipcash:app:checkDebugCurveAssets")
 }
diff --git a/libs/currency-math/build.gradle.kts b/libs/currency-math/build.gradle.kts
index 89c2dc44ea..a50969b4ee 100644
--- a/libs/currency-math/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/libs/currency-math/build.gradle.kts
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ plugins {
 kotlin {
     android {
         namespace = "${Gradle.codeNamespace}.libs.currency.math"
+        // The KMP android target skips res and assets unless this is on, and the curve tables
+        // ship as assets. Without it the app has no tables and crashes on the first token balance.
+        androidResources { enable = true }
         withDeviceTestBuilder {}.configure {
             instrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
         }