The Foundation
What the Foundation does
Four functions, clearly separated, mirroring the public-good foundation genre.
Four functions, clearly separated.
Protocol stewardship
Maintaining the building blocks and the network as open, audited public goods.
Public-good funding
Grants for open-source work, audits, research, and public-good deployments.
Research
Open zero-knowledge, consensus, privacy, and scaling research — published in the open.
Read the code. Read the Mandate.
The Foundation’s two highest-trust actions. Verifiability over persuasion.