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 the first end-user post-quantum inscription protocol on a Layer-1 mainnet substrate where the verification primitive — Falcon-1024, a NIST-selected lattice signature designated FN-DSA in the forthcoming FIPS 206 — is native to consensus 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, 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 a four-model AI Council, deployed behind this site and accessible from the floating brass button on every page. The four seats divide labour by charter and draw from independent training lineages — Anthropic, Meta-via-IBM, Google, and Mistral — 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.
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.