Italian-Parisian. Engineer-trained. Multilingual operator. Founder and settlor of the TRELYAN Foundation (in formation).
Brandon J. Sellam began structuring the TRELYAN Foundation in 2026 to deploy a post-quantum inscription protocol on a Layer-1 substrate (currently Algorand TestNet, pre-audit) where the verification primitive — Falcon-1024, a NIST-selected lattice signature whose FN-DSA variant is the subject of the draft FIPS 206 (not yet published) — is native to the AVM rather than wrapped at the application layer. The substrate is Algorand. The protocol is structured around 1,024 numbered non-fungible Vault Cells, a 21,000,000-unit fixed-supply fungible token fair-launched at genesis — a fixed-supply utility token with no market, no liquidity, and no expectation of profit; not an investment and not transferable on this unaudited TestNet deployment — and a Swiss Stiftung in formation in Zug under articles 80 to 89-bis of the Swiss Civil Code.
He brings to the work a decade of regulated cross-jurisdictional finance practice — Messodie Zug, Paycocard B2B fintech, current physical-commodities brokerage — with daily KYC, AML, source-of-funds, and sanctions-screening discipline under FINMA-supervised counterparty regimes. He is engineer-trained, full-stack (Columbia, 2019), and reads cryptography research the way some read fiction.
The founder's commitment letter — three sections, fourteen stop conditions, witnessed quarterly — was executed in ink on 27 April 2026 and electronically on 13 May 2026. Founder personal capital invested in the project is zero by deliberate, signed-and-witnessed discipline. The structure exists before the protocol does.
TRELYAN operates an eight-model AI Council. The four principal seats below divide labour by charter; they are joined on substantive decisions by four further seats — a second independent review (OpenAI), an adversarial review (xAI Grok), a live-research scout with cited web access (Perplexity), and a locally-hosted agent seat (Nous Hermes). The eight seats draw from independent training lineages — Anthropic, Meta-via-IBM, Google, Mistral, OpenAI, xAI, Perplexity, and Nous — so that convergence across them is a meaningful signal and divergence surfaces the assumption that needs examining. They never share state; each conversation is independent. The Strategy and Diligence seats are deployed behind this site, accessible from the floating brass button on every page.
External communication and protocol exposition. Answers public questions about Falcon-1024, the Algorand substrate, the 1,024 Vault Cells, the Stiftung structure under articles 80 to 89-bis, the Cell pre-sale architecture, and the founder's commitment discipline. Speaks in cryptographer-credible register; declines outside scope; refers legal questions to counsel.
Internal investigation and risk analysis. Runs due diligence on TRELYAN itself, on prospective investors and counterparties, and on every plan or claim the Strategy seat produces. Replies as investigator-counsel — direct, skeptical, ranked. Structured output for risk reads; explicit probability and severity tags; named sources required for any factual assertion.
Rigorous verification of cryptography, mathematics, and standards claims before they ship publicly. Tuned to catch standards-status errors (NIST FIPS publication state, lattice-hardness assumptions, signature/key-size figures, opcode-availability claims) and to flag imprecise wording before it becomes a regulator-flagged misstatement. Last check before any technical content is published.
Independent cross-validation from a fourth training lineage. Reviews the work of Seats I–III without their context, surfacing weak reasoning, unstated assumptions, and category errors. Specialises in continental-European regulatory perspective — FINMA, GDPR, MiCA, Swiss Stiftungsrecht — and in multilingual rendering across the Foundation's working languages (EN / FR / DE / IT). Reads what is actually claimed, not what was meant.
The social handles above are public-facing channels. The TRELYAN Foundation's authoritative channel is this site.