TzAI Foundation was formed to build and hold the infrastructure that finance will run on as it moves onchain. We are headquartered in London.
The infrastructure of financial markets has historically been built by institutions with long horizons, not by funds with fixed lives. Exchanges, clearing houses and payment networks were owned and operated for decades.
Crypto has largely been built the other way: venture rounds, token launches, early exits. Much of the resulting infrastructure has no long-term owner.
The Foundation exists to be that owner. We capitalise our businesses from our own balance sheet, hold them permanently and run them to a single group standard.
Our partners have spent the last five years in crypto markets: trading, market-making and building the exchanges and protocols the market runs on.
Before that, they came out of MIT and leading research laboratories, and worked at quantitative trading firms and top-tier technology companies.
Our engineers come from China's top technology companies and universities, and span matching-engine, smart-contract and infrastructure teams. Among them are national mathematics olympiad champions and ACM-ICPC medallists.
Together, that gives us both sides of the problem: how the existing system works, and how to build the one replacing it.
The holding entity. Owns the businesses, controls the treasury, sets governance and risk policy for the group.
Permanent capital deployed into holdings as liquidity, working capital and long-dated protocol positions.
Each holding runs as an independent business with its own team and product, and reports into the Foundation.
Every business is designed so that users keep their own keys. If a business needs custody to work, we do not build it.
The treasury is sized to hold through cycles. Distress is not a reason to exit.
Roadmaps are internal. Holdings are disclosed when they are operating.