Open, implementation-neutral standards for human-rooted identity, accountable technology, and sovereign participation.
TitleChain Foundation stewards public specifications and review processes that help people retain authority over their identities, credentials, data, and delegated digital actions.
Our public standards program is ICSN — Internet Cooperative for Sovereign Networks. The work is developed through open RFCs, documented governance, public review, conformance evidence, and independent implementation.
Built for stewardship, not acquisition.
The Foundation's constitutional model is anchored by the TitleChain Sovereign Purpose Trust, a Wyoming purpose-trust structure designed under its governing framework for a maximum term of one thousand years.
The purpose is continuity: preserve a human-first digital framework across generations while keeping constitutional stewardship separate from commercial operation.
The public commitments are simple:
- human authority remains the root;
- privacy and meaningful consent are structural requirements;
- people retain portability, recovery, and the right to exit;
- no sponsor, vendor, implementation, founder, or funder buys unilateral control through money or adoption;
- coercive surveillance and forced vendor lock-in are inconsistent with the mission; and
- M5 is one implementation environment, not the owner of the standard.
Read the Trust & Non-Capture summary
The public summary does not replace the Trust instrument, Foundation governing documents, or applicable law.
- Explore ICSN Standards — specifications, schemas, RFCs, governance, and conformance work.
- Review open issues — choose a concrete task or suggest an improvement.
- Join Discussions — ask questions and participate in public review.
- Read the contribution guide — understand the RFC and contribution workflow.
- Review current priorities — see where help is most useful.
- Meet the program and extended ecosystem — activation leadership, product delivery and the extended ecosystem are separated clearly.
The first public-infrastructure commitment is a human-controlled IAM identity origin offered at no charge to the individual and designed to preserve that no-charge foundational access over time.
The two entry points are deliberately separate:
- Free IAM: m5bank.app — the no-charge foundational identity-origin account.
- Program enrollment: m5member.netlify.app — the M5Member enrollment/activation pathway through which an eligible participant progresses toward her M5BankofMe account and applicable program experience.
Free IAM does not require program enrollment. IAM and M5 participation are both optional for standards participation; neither is required to read, review, contribute to, fork, or independently implement ICSN work.
- Read the Public Infrastructure Commitment
- 100K Women-Led Venture Activation — the first scaled activation goal.
- M5AgentClub First-100 Activation — the first reference activation environment.
- M5Brain Reference Architecture — the member-controlled knowledge/context layer.
- Human-rooted identity and proof of life, presence, intent, and authority.
- Accountable, limited, and revocable delegation to software and AI agents.
- Portable credentials, data provenance, recovery, and the right to exit.
- Security, privacy, conformance criteria, schemas, and reference implementations.
- Interoperability across organizations, communities, institutions, and jurisdictions.
- Public-interest activation infrastructure that can test whether sovereignty works in practice.
All work in this organization should be treated according to its stated maturity and license. Publication does not by itself make a proposal a stable Foundation standard.
TitleChain Foundation governs the public standards process. M5 and other implementers may test or deploy the standards, but no implementation, vendor, contributor, or sponsor controls the standards solely through funding or adoption.
Private operational systems, personal records, credentials, and production secrets do not belong in these public repositories.
Sponsorship helps fund public specifications, security review, conformance materials, reference implementations, release work, open-source tooling, public infrastructure, and contributor coordination.
Sponsorship does not purchase governance authority, conformance status, preferential technical decisions, ownership of the commons, or access to private participant data.
Higher-level organizational partnerships are available through a conversation so scope, recognition, independence, conflicts, and public impact reporting can be agreed responsibly. Connect with the Foundation.
Fund the commons. Never own the commons.
Participation is governed by our Code of Conduct, Governance policy, and Security policy.
We welcome developers, reviewers, security researchers, documentation contributors, implementers, educators, and public-interest institutions.