The Foundation

A steward of the commons, not its owner

The public code of the digital state.

A non-profit foundation that stewards three public goods at once: the open-source building blocks, the neutral interoperability network, and the public-good treasury that funds them.

What the Foundation stewards.

The building blocks

Working, audited, zero-knowledge-native open-source code under the OSRUL license.

The blocks

The network

A neutral, sovereign-grade settlement and cross-border layer.

The network

The treasury & governance

Funding for audits, research, and bug bounties, governed in the open.

Governance

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How the Foundation operates.

The Mandate

The non-negotiable principles and the limits on the Foundation’s power.

Read the Mandate

What we do

Protocol stewardship, public-good funding, research, and convening.

What we do

Treasury & transparency

Sources, allocation, and reporting — excluded from governance voting.

The treasury

Council & bodies

The Council, the Steering Committee, and the Contributor DAO.

Council & bodies

Structure & neutrality

The two-stage entity blueprint, the legal home, and the neutrality posture.

Structure

Read the code. Read the Mandate.

The Foundation’s two highest-trust actions. Verifiability over persuasion.

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