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Leadership and team cards, board and founding prose, an AI persona modelled on a named individual, contributor and partner entries, and personal correspondence addresses all named one person. The organisation carries them now. Other people keep their names. Where a card, a board list or a founding line named someone else alongside, they stay exactly as they were; only the one entry was removed, and prose that listed two names now reads with one. Sample and fixture data uses the placeholder name these tests already use elsewhere, so the IAM username defect the notes describe still reads as written. The zoo/yapp MIT notice names the foundation that publishes it. Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
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\section{Team and Mission}
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\label{sec:team}
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\subsection{Founding}
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\Zoo{} Labs Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded by
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\textbf{Antje Worring}, who authored the original Zoo whitepaper on
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October~31, 2021. That document is the canonical founding artifact of
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the foundation; it describes a Game-Fi multiverse for endangered species,
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emotionally-intelligent NFT animals, and a \DAO{} that routes economic
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value back to wildlife preservation. Worring also coined the term
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\emph{NFT Liquidity Protocol} in the January~2022 deck, which is the
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lineage that today underwrites the broader Liquidity Protocol family of
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on-chain settlement primitives.
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\subsection{Mission}
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The \Zoo{} mission, as carried forward to the \Quasar{} 3.0 activation
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(2025-12-25), is:
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\begin{quote}\itshape
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An open AI protocol for research aligned with environment-saving,
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endangered AI, and the intersection of AI, blockchain, metaverse, and
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gaming.
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\end{quote}
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This articulation is intentionally broader than ``conservation crypto.''
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\Zoo{} now spans frontier-AI research (the \textsc{Zen} model family,
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per-\textsc{llm} chains, Hamiltonian \textsc{llm}s, Z-JEPA, BitDelta),
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metaverse and gaming infrastructure (Game-Fi, virtual habitats,
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play-to-conserve mechanics), conservation and DeSci (federated wildlife
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monitoring, satellite ecology, citizen science protocols), and
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governance (the holographic \DAO{} described in \S\ref{sec:dao}).
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\subsection{Core team}
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\begin{itemize}[nosep,leftmargin=1.2em]
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\item \textbf{Antje Worring} --- Founder, Zoo Labs Foundation.
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Author of the original Oct~31, 2021 whitepaper.
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\texttt{[email protected]}.
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\item \textbf{Zoo Labs Foundation} --- Chief Scientist / engineering lead.
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Co-author on the Foundation Mission paper, the per-\textsc{llm}
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chains paper, and on this document. Drives the \textsc{Zen} model
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family, the per-\textsc{llm} chain integration with \Lux{} \Quasar{}
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3.0, and the Hanzo / Lux / Zoo cross-stack. \texttt{[email protected]}.
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\item \textbf{Research staff} --- authors and maintainers of the
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80+ paper series and the 130+ \textsc{zip} corpus
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(\texttt{[email protected]}).
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\item \textbf{Engineering staff} --- maintainers of \texttt{zoo/node}
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(Rust), \texttt{zoo/app} (Tauri + React desktop client),
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\texttt{zoo/zoo} (Next.js front-end), and the Zen LM training stack.
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Allied organizations}
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\Zoo{} operates inside an explicitly layered ecosystem:
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\begin{itemize}[nosep,leftmargin=1.2em]
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\item \textbf{\Lux{} Network} provides regulated chain infrastructure
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and the \Quasar{} 3.0 post-quantum consensus engine
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(\Lux{} \textsc{lp-020}, see \S\ref{sec:quantum}).
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\item \textbf{\Hanzo{} AI Inc.} (Techstars '17) operates the Hanzo AI
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Chain inference and commerce marketplace and co-develops the
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\textsc{Zen} model family.
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\item \textbf{A regulated securities partner} is \Zoo{}'s exclusive
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partner for retail-scale digital-securities trading; it brings the regulated
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ATS / broker-dealer / transfer-agent perimeter
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(see \S\ref{sec:securities}).
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Advisors and contributors}
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The foundation maintains a rolling advisory roster across conservation
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science, AI research, DeSci / open-research, and governance.
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The advisor set is governed by the meta-\DAO{} and updated through the
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contribution-graph attestation pipeline anchored on \Lux{} A-Chain
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(\Lux{} \textsc{lp-134}). Detailed roster and join paths are in
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\texttt{zips/team.md} (canonical team page).
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\subsection{Provenance vs.\ today}
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The Oct~31, 2021 founding vision named three pillars: open AI,
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blockchain, and metaverse. Four years on, those pillars have hardened
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into specific protocols: per-\textsc{llm} chains for open AI (one
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sovereign \Quasar{} appchain per model, see~\cite{zoo-per-llm-chains}),
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\Lux{} \Quasar{} 3.0 for blockchain, and a metaverse layer that
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manifests across the Game-Fi, gaming, and AR/VR pillars of the original
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whitepaper. The remainder of this paper specifies how those pillars now
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extend into digital securities, quantum-secure settlement, holographic
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governance, and democratized information access.
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