A Foundation With a Clear Mission, and a Clear Exit
The GenLayer Foundation was created to steward the growth of a new kind of trust infrastructure—one built for intelligent agents, not legacy institutions. Our role is to guide the protocol’s early development, expand its ecosystem, and help it evolve into an autonomous system governed by code, not committees.
Our commitment is clear: support long-term decentralization, adoption, innovation, and alignment with AI safety and social benefit, then step aside. Because the legal layer for the AI age should ultimately govern itself. We are actively building our replacement: the Deepthought DAO, a self-improving, AI-assisted governance system that will inherit and evolve the Foundation’s responsibilities.
Our Role
We Are Stewards, Not Owners
The GenLayer Foundation exists to activate the potential of the protocol, not to control it. Our goal is to foster decentralization, drive adoption, and guide the responsible evolution of GenLayer’s infrastructure through strategic resource allocation, education, and communication. We fund what matters, facilitate what’s missing, and ensure that critical systems and values—like AI alignment, security, and public benefit, are prioritized.
But our long-term goal is to replace ourselves entirely with a self-improving, community-driven, AI-aligned system: the Deepthought DAO. This DAO will be capable of absorbing the Foundation’s responsibilities—from grantmaking and governance to protocol upgrades—while addressing many of the inefficiencies and participation challenges faced by today’s DAOs.
Launch Protocol
Grow ecosystem
Transition to DAO
Sunset Foundation
HOW WE OPERATE
We take a modular, high-leverage approach to ecosystem building, focused on the interventions that matter most for long-term protocol success.
Grants and
Funding
Protocol Development Support
Governance Framework Design
Community Enablement
Essential
Transparency is foundational.
Every decision the Foundation makes, along with its rationale, will be shared publicly. Transparency is not optional, it’s essential to the legitimacy and evolution of a decentralized court system.
MEET THE TEAM
Our team combines deep experience in Web3 infrastructure, AI strategy, protocol development, and ecosystem growth.
David Riudor
Founder of Goin and KernelPay. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. Serial entrepreneur with $45M+ raised. Leads the Foundation’s execution and vision.
Sergi Mata
Former VP at Polygon Labs. Extensive expertise on BD and Strategy both in Web 2 (Grant Thornton) and Web3 (Kaleido & Hermez).
Iván Raskovsky
Serial founder and ecosystem lead at GenLayer. Background in AI, decentralization, and neuroscience with a passion for cutting-edge tech.
Catherine Tuntiserirat
Blockchain entrepreneur since 2017. Harvard CS Alumni. Former Head of Strategy for Band Protocol & Ecosystem Support Leader at the Ethereum Foundation.
CONNECT AND COLLABORATE
Help Us Build the Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era
We are actively seeking builders, researchers, and ecosystem collaborators who share our mission to make trust programmable and legal systems autonomous.
If you're working on:
- AI-governed DAOs
- Autonomous arbitration
- Legal automation tools
- Governance frameworks for intelligent agents