Cardstack — the application framework and the team behind it — is ready to organize this community, in order to build an alternative app market with open-web technologies, guided by the open-source ethos and enabled by a one-in-a-generation breakthrough of blockchains. The Cardstack Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. Its goal is to promote and develop the Cardstack software, architecture, protocol, and applications. The Foundation can support and finance research and development activities that promote the Cardstack software, architecture, and protocol.