Foundation

Internet of Value Research Foundation

An independent research foundation stewarding the public-interest development of The Internet of Value through research, education, protocols, and fieldwork.

Why we exist

Mission

To develop language, mathematics, research, and practical institutions that make time, wellbeing, and contribution more visible in economic life.

Vision

An economy able to recognize human and community value before price, productivity, or extraction become the dominant measure.

Values

Human dignity

Economic representation should begin with lived time and wellbeing, not reduce people to output.

Public-interest stewardship

Research, protocols, and fieldwork should remain legible, accountable, and useful beyond any single institution.

Consent and restraint

Measurement should make meaningful contribution visible without demanding unnecessary exposure.

Protocol integrity

Public storytelling follows the canonical specification rather than becoming a competing source of protocol truth.

Read The Modern Ten Commandments

Governance philosophy

Stewardship before scale

Governance is oriented toward public-interest stewardship, protocol integrity, responsible research, and accountable institutional development. Formal board and advisory details will be published here as they are ready for public record.

Team and founding stewardship

Work with traceable authorship

is the founding author and steward of The Internet of Value. The Foundation’s team, board, researchers, and collaborators will be identified here as their public roles are formalized.

Moral lineage

The influences we think with

Our Moral Board connects the sixty people, works, traditions, and ideas in the Gratitude Series. It is a public-source map of influence, not a formal board, endorsement, or collection of canonical Wellbeing Identities.

Explore Our Moral Board

Foundation and protocol

Distinct roles, one research agenda

Internet of Value Research Foundation is the institutional steward. The Internet of Value is the protocol stack, book, research agenda, and wider intellectual system. Protocol definitions remain grounded in the canonical specification.

Explore the protocol stack

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Identity & Symbol

The tilde is a restrained identity mark and the canonical marker for protocol hierarchy. It signals relation, approximation, wave, and a path home without replacing precise protocol language.

Read the symbol essay