Dr. Kabir Veitas
Council Member · Executive Fellow
Co-founder of NuNet. Architect of the orchestration protocol and author of its yellow paper on tokenomics. PhD in computational social sciences.
NuNet Foundation
A home for the protocol.
The NuNet Foundation is a non-profit entity that has been operating in continuous form since 2021 to support long-term governance of the open-source protocol and the community around it. Day-to-day development and operations currently sit with the NuNet team via Solutions, with the Foundation taking on stewardship responsibilities progressively as it scales up. Independent from commercial interests. Accountable to the people building on the network.
What the Foundation does.
The Foundation's mandate is broad and public. Four responsibilities documented in the charter, to be executed in the open as the Foundation scales up its operations.
Protocol
Steward the open-source protocol.
The Foundation is established to support stewardship of the NuNet protocol codebase under Apache 2.0 on GitLab. Merges, releases, security reviews, and technical decisions are currently coordinated by the NuNet team via Solutions, with the Foundation taking on this role progressively through its governance structure.
Community
Support contributors and operators.
The Foundation is set up to fund documentation, onboarding, translation, developer relations, and operational tooling for everyone running nodes or building on the protocol.
Governance
Coordinate decisions in the open.
All governance decisions — protocol upgrades, treasury allocations, membership changes — are designed to pass through a public process with Council deliberation and community input. The Foundation's published governance principles commit to open deliberation.
Ecosystem
Represent NuNet in standards bodies.
NuNet is a member of Linux Foundation, CNCF, LF Edge, and Intercognitive Foundation. It participates in open-infrastructure standards work and cross-project collaborations.
Council, Fellows, and the Team.
The structure of the NuNet Foundation is lean by design, yet flexible enough to accommodate new functional bodies and working groups, should the Community choose to establish them in the future. Currently, the Foundation comprises three groups of actors.
Council Members · First term October 2025-2029The Foundation Council includes 3 to 6 Members, jointly responsible for the Council's duties. Each is appointed for a 4-year term and may serve a maximum of 2 consecutive terms. For the first term, Members were recruited from among those who conceptualized the NuNet technology and network. From the next term (November 2029-2033), Council Members will be elected by the Community, following the procedures set out in the Governance Framework of the Common.
Dr. Weaver D.R. Weinbaum
Council Member · Executive Fellow
Co-founder of NuNet. PhD in computational systems. Research focus: distributed intelligence, open-ended computing, and the theoretical foundations of peer-to-peer orchestration.
Dr. Ben Goertzel
Council Member
Co-founder of NuNet through SingularityNET's X-Lab Accelerator. Founder of SingularityNET. One of the original architects of the decentralized AI movement. PhD in mathematics.
Mr. David Lake
Council Member
Council Member contributing governance, strategy, and ecosystem expertise to the Foundation.
Think of NuNet's Executive Fellowship as a CEO function distributed across 3 to 5 individuals. Collegial, non-hierarchical, and jointly held. Fellows commit to working together according to a set of experimental governance principles, with decisions made through rough consensus. While the initial Fellowship is established by the Council, the two bodies are only partially hierarchical. Fellows are appointed and dismissed by the Fellowship itself, as an autonomously self-structuring body.
Dr. Em Lenartowicz
Executive Fellow
Executive Fellow contributing to NuNet's distributed leadership function.
Mr. Michel Bauwens
Executive Fellow
Executive Fellow contributing to NuNet's distributed leadership function. Long-standing voice in the commons and peer-to-peer movement.
For day-to-day operations, the Foundation relies on services subcontracted from NuNet Solutions, a spin-off startup specializing in NuNet technology adoption. As the network expands and new autonomous operators emerge, the Foundation may contract new development, maintenance, and facilitation services from a broader range of players, in line with the Community's preferences and needs.
Standards and ecosystem participation.
NuNet participates in open-infrastructure standards bodies and ecosystem alliances. These memberships commit NuNet to public processes and peer accountability.
Linux Foundation
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
LF Edge
Intercognitive Foundation
ASI Alliance
SingularityNET
Linux Foundation
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Silver Member
CNCF
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Member
LF Edge
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Member
Intercognitive Foundation
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Member
Join the work.
The Foundation's work is open to anyone who wants to participate. Three concrete paths, each with its own entry point.
Operator
Run a node.
Install the NuNet Appliance, onboard your hardware, earn NTX for compute delivered. Operators shape what the network can do.
Install the Appliance →Developer
Contribute to the codebase.
The protocol is Apache 2.0 and lives on GitLab. Issues, merge requests, CI pipelines, and technical discussions are public. New contributors are welcome.
Browse GitLab →Community
Join the community.
Discord for live discussion, X for updates, Substack for deeper writing. Governance discussions happen in the open.