It does
- Fund public-good development
- Support decentralised infrastructure
- Run grants and education programmes
- Facilitate governance processes
- Publish transparency reports
About the Foundation
Steward of the network. Never its owner.
The ZooBC Foundation supports the long-term decentralisation, security, adoption, and open development of the ZooBC network.
Read the mandateThe mandate
Support public work.Make every actionvisible.
The Foundation funds public-good work, runs grants and education programmes, publishes what it does with the money, and stays out of the way of the network's own governance.
It exists to hold funds, make grants, publish reports, and coordinate. It exists to be accountable, not to own what it stewards.
Clear boundaries
What the Foundation does.What it cannot do.
A short list is more honest than a long promise.
It does not
- Own the ZooBC network
- Guarantee token price or investment returns
- Control every node
- Act as custodian of users' assets
- Replace community decision-making
Separation by design
Four things.Kept distinct.
Credible stewardship depends on understanding where authority begins and where it ends.
ZooBC network
Open infrastructure. Owned by nobody.
ZooBC Foundation
Neutral steward. The subject of this site.
Blockchain Zoo PTE. LTD.
A separate commercial engineering company and founding contributor.
The community
Everyone who runs, uses, proposes, votes, translates, moderates, and builds.
Institutional independence
Separate in law.Inspectablein practice.
Blockchain Zoo PTE. LTD. is a commercial engineering firm and one of the ZooBC network's founding contributors. It is a separate legal entity from the Foundation.
Its work may be funded through Foundation grants under the same open-application rubric published on the Grants page. Any such grant will be disclosed with amount, milestones, and outcomes on the Transparency page, and signed off under a conflicts-of-interest policy published at incorporation.
Governance in one view
One voting rail.Two distinct surfaces.
The Foundation participates in one and administers the other. It controls neither.
Protocol governance
Node owners vote on-chain.
Consensus parameters, fee schedules, and protocol upgrades are decided by on-chain vote of the node owners. The Foundation may propose and participate, but it has no privileged vote.
Foundation governance
Members and users vote on-chain.
Grant category weights, programme changes, reporting cadences, and appointments are also decided on-chain. The mechanism is the same; the electorate differs.
Formation status
State what exists.Name what comes next.
Confidence begins with an honest account of the Foundation's current legal and operating state.
Legal status
The Foundation will be incorporated in Switzerland once the initial funding rounds close. Until then it operates as an unincorporated body under founder stewardship, with decisions recorded and prepared for transfer to the incorporated entity at formation.
Public record
The incorporation number, articles of association, board composition, and applicable audit findings will be published when they exist.
People
Roberto Capodieci holds the presidency. The full board and staff will be seated at incorporation. Current founding roles and open seats are published on the People page.
Meet the peopleThe standard
Trust should beinspectable.
Read the record, review the governance model, or begin a direct conversation with the Foundation.