About Technology Commons Trust

Technology Commons Trust is a stichting according to the law of the Netherlands, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce with trade register number 83845712.

Legal Entities and Partnerships Information Number (Rechtspersonen Samenwerkingsverbanden Informatie Nummer, RSIN) is 863007478.

The foundation was established on September 7th 2021.

The board of the foundation consists of:

  • Bob Goudriaan (chair)
  • Caleb James Delisle (secretary)
  • Michiel Leenaars (chancellor)

As per Article 2 of the Deed of incorporation, the foundation has as its goal to:

  1. contribute to the vision of an Internet that empowers humanity;
  2. share and cultivate free and open technology as a collective good without a central point of control;
  3. serve as a philanthropic intermediary providing resources to public benefit organizations in the field described above;
  4. to act as an intermediary with the fintech and crypto-payment community at large - from architects to operators, from miners to mainstream end users.
  5. to perform all further actions, which are related to the above in the broadest sense or which may be conducive to it and further all that which is related to one another directly or indirectly or may be conducive thereto, all in the broadest sense of the word.

The full text of the Deed of Incorporation is available upon request.