I'm Brandon Sellam. I'm building TRELYAN — a post-quantum cryptography protocol on Algorand, in formation as a Swiss Stiftung in Zug. By signed and witnessed discipline, I take zero personal capital. This is the page where I ask you to fund the year between this sentence and the Foundation's incorporation.
Every Bitcoin signature, every Ethereum signature, every signature that secures the public ledger of digital civilization — they all break the day a fault-tolerant quantum computer comes online. Google Quantum AI's March 2026 paper put the resource estimate at a level the standards community is now planning against. Coinbase's quantum advisory board landed at the same conclusion in April.
Algorand has shipped the only post-quantum signature scheme — Falcon-1024, a NIST-selected lattice signature — that runs at consensus on a major Layer-1. The opcode has been live on mainnet since November 2025.
TRELYAN is a protocol on Algorand designed to make digital permanence real for the first time, under that signature scheme. 1,024 non-fungible Vault Cells, each carrying the right to inscribe one immutable artifact under a Falcon-1024 signature. A Swiss Stiftung under articles 80–89-bis of the Swiss Civil Code to hold the protocol as endowment rather than equity. A trademark filed at IGE Zürich on 19 May 2026 (application 08601/2026).
This is what I'm building. The Foundation is in formation. This page is how you help build it.
Every tier earns a Genesis Supporter badge and a vote in the 10% community-allocated charity pool. Premium tiers add curated experiences with transparent pricing.
Cryptography is about provable trust. Charity should be too.
Every contributor at the $50 tier and above receives a vote. Patron tier gets 2 votes. Concierge tier buyers get 3. At campaign close, three pre-vetted charities are revealed. A 96-hour voting window opens. The winner receives the wire — executed on Algorand, with the transaction ID published publicly so anyone can verify the donation happened.
Every contribution at the $100 tier and above earns one automatic entry.
One winner. Drawn at random via verifiable on-chain randomness within 7 days of campaign close.
Eligibility: 18+, anywhere on Earth except where prohibited by law.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter without contributing, mail a 3×5 index card with your name, return address, and email to the PO Box address on the sweepstakes rules page, postmarked by campaign close. Each card = one entry. Full rules: sweepstakes rules. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: Brandon Joseph Sellam, NYC, USA.
"Two years ago I started reading post-quantum cryptography papers I didn't understand. Today I'm filing the trademark for what they led to. I don't take a salary. I don't take personal capital. I take the year — and I'm asking you to help fund it."
Every channel below goes to the same place — the founder runway between this sentence and Foundation incorporation. The tiers above are for the curated experiences and the sweepstakes; these are for fast, low-friction contributions of any size.
$60,000 goal, video cover, public meter. Best for first-time supporters and anyone sharing the campaign with a non-crypto-native network.
Open GoFundMe →Tip jar plus optional monthly membership. Lowest friction for small recurring contributions; supports the “first month's runway” counsel-and-audit fund.
Open Ko-fi →Same idea as Ko-fi, different audience. If this is the platform you already use, it's the fastest way to drop a coffee in without a new account.
Open Buy Me a Coffee →Names and messages shown here are only the ones supporters made public on Ko-fi. Anonymous tips count toward the totals but aren't named here.
For supporters who'd rather skip a platform's payment processor. Algorand is the featured rail — it's the chain TRELYAN runs on — but four other major networks are listed below. Verify the address visually before sending. Brandon will never DM you a different address.
No. This is not an offer to sell securities. The fungible TRELYAN token and the 1,024 Vault Cells launch under a separate legal structure in Q4 2027 — Reg D 506(c) for accredited US investors and Reg S for non-US persons, with KYC/AML verification. Contributing here does not entitle you to either, and does not give you any equity, governance right, or future financial benefit.
Counsel of record (LEXR Zürich, milestone-paced engagement), founding cryptographer outreach and travel costs, office and equipment, travel to Zürich / Boston / Tel Aviv for advisor meetings, the Stiftung formation costs after counsel signs the engagement, and the audit firm engagement once the Cell contracts are deployable. Detailed line-item breakdown published at campaign close.
Yes. It's calculated on the total campaign raise at close, allocated to whichever of three pre-vetted nominees wins the community vote, and wired (in crypto on Algorand, or in fiat via SWIFT if the charity can't receive crypto). The transaction ID or SWIFT receipt is published publicly for verification.
None. The pricing is transparent: $5,000 of the Mykonos tier covers the trip, $3,500 supports the founder. $7,500 of the St. Moritz tier covers the trip, $5,000 supports the founder. The trip is real. The split is real. You know exactly what you're paying for. The value of the curated experience is the venue access — not the marginal cost of the room.
Brandon Joseph Sellam. New York-based, Italian-Parisian heritage, engineer-trained, commodity broker. Building TRELYAN since the project was named STELE through May 2026 (rebranded 12 May 2026). Public profile, signed Founder Commitment Letter with fourteen stop conditions including a zero-personal-capital discipline.
An Algorand wallet address and a USDC address are published on the contribution page, with the contribution amount auto-mapped to the corresponding tier. Sweepstakes entries are matched against the wallet address and confirmed by email.