Coming soon · VESTN Community Hub · Q3 2026
Founding 50 · cohort one
Fifty seats. Named, not sold.
The Founding 50 is a working cohort: the people whose feedback shapes the methodology, the registry, and the community norms before anything opens publicly. Seats are earned by contribution, not by fee. No paid tiers exist.
Allocators
0 / 20
Issuers
0 / 15
Practitioners
0 / 15
50 seats total. Zero filled as of this draft; the page ships before recruitment opens; recruitment opens with the methodology v0.2.
Criteria
Allocator
- Deploys or advises on real capital into RWAs today.
- Willing to share diligence questions publicly (products can stay private).
- Commits to one Brief conversation per month.
Issuer
- Live product on-chain or in registered wrapper.
- Willing to answer the six diligence questions on record.
- Accepts public correction if a fact changes.
Practitioner
- Custody, audit, oracle, legal, or infra experience shipped.
- Contributes one methodology review per quarter.
- Open to being cited when a registry entry uses your work.
What Founding 50 members get
- Named on the methodology page as a contributor (opt-in).
- Early access to new registry entries before public publish.
- One quarterly round-table (Chatham-House rule).
- Standing invite to co-write a Weekly Brief.