This Decentralized Foundation Just Gave Protocols a Splendidly Bizarre New Governor 😳🚀

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If one ever wondered what would happen if a database had an existential crisis, found itself on the blockchain, and then called an emergency committee meeting about it, wonder no longer. Enter: Space and Time, not content with merely existing as both concepts and a decentralized protocol, has now come up with something arguably even more perplexing—a Foundation. Because nothing says “decentralization” quite like an organization making things even more complicated.

On a particularly memorable Tuesday—April 29, which will no doubt go down in some obscure galactic diary—Space and Time announced its new Foundation. It’s a bit like launching a spaceship just to pop to the interplanetary post office: absolutely necessary, but only if you don’t look too hard at why.

Introducing the Space and Time Foundation.

The Foundation will work alongside the Space and Time community to empower developers to build the next generation of crypto apps with ZK-proven data.

— Space and Time (@SpaceandTimeDB) April 29, 2025

Reports indicate this entity was “launched” in 2024 but only now, nearly a whole year later, does it get an official badge and permission to use the big conference room at parties. The Foundation bravely claims the non-profit sector of Space and Time, as if the protocol needed an altruistic sibling to look up to. There’s even a board—and you know things are serious when a board pops up.

Philanthropy in Space, Bureaucracy in Time

Among its many otherworldly ambitions, the Foundation has promised to hand out grants (apparently to those who can make even more confusing crypto-apps), grow a “community” (whatever that means on a galactic scale), and pursue “transparency”—not to be confused with the invisibility cloak first popularized in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

If you suspected things would get even more complicated: Space and Time Labs, the shadowy cabal formerly juggling the protocol’s for-profit plans, has decided to rebrand as MakeInfinite Labs—the same sort of name you come up with when your marketing department is quantum entangled and hasn’t slept in seven days. Their mission: dabbling in world domination via research, development, and enterprise clients, presumably from other planets.

So what makes Space and Time the Ford Prefect of databases? For starters, it wields “zero-knowledge proofs”—that magical crypto spell that lets you prove something’s true without actually revealing any information. Like declaring “I have eaten all the biscuits” and somehow being believed, even though the tin is suspiciously empty.

Their piĂšce de rĂ©sistance: “Proof of SQL.” Think of it like a game of interdimensional charades. Every time you query this database, it creates a ZK proof—a cool bit of mathematics proving you’re not fibbing—to submit to a smart contract on the blockchain. All this, and nobody (especially not your mother) needs to see the actual data.

The upshot: While everyone else is moving vast chunks of data around on chain (which, as any galactic hitchhiker will tell you, is a great way to run out of towel), Space and Time just hands out proof of honesty. The blockchain itself becomes a bureaucratic ledger of proofiness, which sounds boring, but is actually hilarious if you picture it as a cosmic Vogon poetry reading.

In conclusion, it appears both Space and Time are now under new management—and possibly under the illusion that universal order can be induced simply by forming more committees. Don’t forget to bring a towel, or at the very least, a sense of humor about decentralized governance. đŸȘ

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2025-04-29 20:53