A Swiss Stiftung, in formation in Zug.
The TRELYAN Foundation, once incorporated, will be the legal vehicle that holds the protocol, the treasury, and the standing fiduciary obligation to the Cell cohort. Swiss civil law for the structure — the Stiftung being the only Continental form that delivers irrevocable purpose, perpetual existence, and supervisory accountability without equity. Algorand for the substrate. Zero personal capital for the founder, by signed commitment.
Swiss Stiftung. Counsel in selection. Genesis 2028.
The Foundation will incorporate under the Schweizerisches Zivilgesetzbuch articles 80 to 89-bis, governed by a Stiftungsrat of three to five members and supervised by the Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht (federal foundation supervisory authority). Upon incorporation, the Foundation will be the on-chain issuer of the Vault Cells, the fiduciary steward of pre-sale proceeds, and the long-term custodian of the inscription contract. It will hold no equity — the project has none to hold; the Stiftung form is, by Swiss design, equity-less and beneficiary-defined by purpose rather than ownership.
Counsel under evaluation: LEXR Zürich (Christian Meisser, partner — Swiss DLT-Act and FINMA crypto-licensing practice; initial scoping completed 15 May 2026). Counsel alternates: MME Legal (Luzius Meisser) and Kellerhals Carrard (Cornelia Stengel) — both holding established public records of FINMA pre-rulings in the digital-asset domain. Engagement letter to be signed post-Stiftung-formation.
The operating entity today. Development and operations are currently conducted by TRELYAN Inc., a Delaware corporation (incorporated June 2026) and the project's sole contracting party today. The Stiftung described on this page is not yet registered and has no legal personality or authority at this time; references to the "Foundation" and to fondation@trelyan.ch pertain to this intended future entity — which, once constituted, will hold the protocol as endowment rather than equity.
One named person. Accountable, signed, witnessed.
Brandon J. Sellam
Italian-Parisian · Engineer-trained · Multilingual operator · NYC-based
A multilingual operator with engineer's training and a decade of regulated cross-jurisdictional finance under FINMA-supervised counterparty regimes — Messodie Zug, Paycocard B2B fintech, current physical-commodities brokerage. Full-stack developer (Columbia, 2019); BBA in International Business. Reads cryptography research the way some read fiction; reads NIST standards twice.
Standing obsessions: post-quantum cryptography under the NIST PQC standardisation register (FIPS 203 ML-KEM, FIPS 204 ML-DSA, FIPS 205 SLH-DSA — all published 13 August 2024; draft FIPS 206 FN-DSA / Falcon — selected 2022, released as an initial public draft in 2025, formal publication expected 2026–2027; XMSS SP 800-208); the physics of permanence as an engineering claim; the Swiss Stiftung as a legal form that admits irrevocable purpose, perpetual existence, and supervisory accountability without equity.
TRELYAN is the protocol he has been building toward for years — a post-quantum inscription mechanism that treats digital permanence as a falsifiable scientific claim rather than a marketing one.
A three-section letter, signed before the protocol exists.
Before raising a single dollar and before incorporating the foundation, the founder executed a three-section commitment letter to himself, witnessed and counter-signed by a discreet third party who reviews the project on a quarterly cadence. Section I states the why; Section II binds seven time-stop conditions including a legal-viability stop at month eighteen and an audit-failure stop at month twenty-four; Section III binds eight money-articles and seven money-stop conditions, including a hard founder-capital stop fixed at zero dollars of personal contribution. The stops are sequential, falsifiable, and audit-friendly: each one is a condition under which the project terminates, with the residual treasury returning to Cell-holders pro rata.
The letter itself is private. Its existence and its stop-condition structure are public and disclosed in the Token Classification Memo. The Cells the project sells are protected by it.
Foundation in formation. Genesis: April 2028.
Counsel & specialist queue
LEXR Zürich engagement scoped. Pre-LEXR specialist consultations sequenced (cross-border tax, IP, MiCA, GDPR, US tax). First grant capital deployed to specialist queue. F&F bridge in motion.
Stiftung formation
Inscription contract TestNet deployment. LEXR retention with full specialist inputs in hand. Stiftungsrat composition confirmed (3+ trustees per BVS).
Stiftung filed in Zug
Swiss Stiftung incorporated under articles 80–89-bis. BVS federal supervision applied for. Tax-exempt non-profit status pursued.
Audit & advisors
First independent smart-contract audit complete. Cryptographer advisory board confirmed.
Pre-sale opens
Founding tier first. Application window 14 days. Pillar lottery, then Vault public.
Genesis
Cell #1 inscription. Fair-launch liquidity opens. Genesis-day Cells mint.
Released cohort
Pre-sale Cells reach Released state once both inscribed and 24 months post-genesis.