Foundation.xyz – Porkbun customer – (United States)
The .xyz community includes developers building AI infrastructure aimed at openness and human control. Decentralized AI infrastructure company Othentic.xyz develops modular frameworks that connect decentralized computing with verifiable AI systems. Decentralized AI protocol Sentient.xyz supports an open, community-driven approach to AGI development. Distributed AI data network Hub.xyz builds a system for real-time machine intelligence. In this week’s #AIMonday, we’ll introduce you to a “Human Authority Hardware” company building dedicated hardware services for AI agent authorization, Bitcoin, and identity: Foundation.xyz.
Foundation.xyz is the online home of Foundation, a hardware company focused on what it describes as “Human Authority Hardware,” dedicated physical devices designed to keep humans in control of high-stakes digital decisions. According to the website, Foundation builds secure devices, operating systems, and developer tools spanning Bitcoin, identity, authentication, encrypted storage, and AI-era approvals. As reported by The Block on May 21, 2026, Foundation raised $6.4M in a funding round led by venture firm Fulgur Ventures, with participation from Arche Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to $16.5M.1
According to Foundation’s blog post announcing Passport Prime’s general availability, the company’s flagship device combines a Bitcoin hardware wallet, FIDO security keys, two-factor authentication storage, a secrets vault, and 50GB of encrypted storage in a single piece of hardware. The blog post states that Passport Prime is designed to serve as the human-facing trust layer for an era in which AI agents can act across accounts, wallets, and enterprise systems at machine speed. The premise, as highlighted on Foundation.xyz, is that consequential actions taken by AI agents on a user’s behalf should require explicit approval on dedicated hardware, with what Foundation describes as a trusted display and an inspectable operating system, rather than on the same computer running the agent. Foundation also opened its KeyOS developer platform to outside developers alongside the announcement, with a KeyOS app store planned for users by the end of Q2 2026, according to the company.
Foundation is co-founded by Zach Herbert, Ken Carpenter, and Jacob Johnston. According to Zach’s LinkedIn profile, he serves as CEO and previously held operations leadership roles at Skynet Labs, the company behind decentralized cloud storage project Sia and ASIC mining hardware producer Obelisk. According to Ken’s LinkedIn profile, Ken serves as CTO and previously worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at enterprise software company ServiceNow, and prior to that as Principal Software Engineer at Obelisk, where he and Zach overlapped. According to Jacob’s LinkedIn profile, Jacob serves as VP of Operations and also previously held operations roles at Skynet Labs, as well as earlier positions at 3D printing company Formlabs.
Foundation has secured $16.5M in total funding, shipped Passport Prime to all buyers, and opened its developer platform to outside integrations, advancing what the company describes as dedicated hardware for AI agent authorization and human approval. Foundation.xyz is where that work lives online. As a premium domain, Foundation.xyz is direct and easy to remember, giving the company an online presence directly tied to its name across the Bitcoin, identity, and AI authorization audiences it serves. We look forward to seeing what Foundation builds next. You can learn more by following the platform on X/Twitter and LinkedIn, and visiting Foundation.xyz.
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