Acknowledgements

This White Paper is based on concurrent and recursive research in the areas of CyberSecurity and blockchain around the capability and promise for a completely novel Web3-based technique, employing HyperStructure principles to solve key hard problems within our global digital systems. Taking place over the last seven years, with conclusions and methods put into practice over the last two years, we are immensely grateful to our friends and colleagues for encouraging us to start, persevere, and finally publish this work. From the UK, we thank Guy Davies from the Brixton Pound for his input with this whitepaper, Jane Frankland from ‘IN Security Movement’, Richard Baylie and Ali Jooyand from OCS Group leadership and security teams, Ninva Ponsonby for her help and support, and many others for the enterprise level backing, academic level thought leadership support and ongoing honest friendships. From India, we are grateful to our friends and team members who never stopped challenging us to do more, aim higher and when faced with tough tasks, showed courage and the amazing capability to think laterally, solving the most complicated issues and use cases that an unusual innovation project like ours presents. We would like to extend our best regards and respect to their work and dedication in helping us develop our ideas further. In the US and Brazil, we thank colleagues Jim Tousif for his unyielding perseverance and friendship, Elena Gaudette from Cisco Cloud Security for her visionary support since the very beginning, Bruno Ahualli for the deep strategic input and Michel Turtchin for adding his artistic skills to the project. From Portugal we would like to extend our gratitude to Monika Oravcova who has been a fundamental pillar to the project since its idea phase, leading our path through the world`s best accelerators and events; Nuno Almeida from the Instituto Superior Técnico University for his partnership and principlecentered guiding force, and to João Ferreira Santos for his energetic legal and compliance guidance.

A special word of gratitude is due to Scott MacAndrew from Holt / Cypher and Brendan Holt Dunn from the Holdun Family Office, for showing confidence in our work at key junctures and for their steadfast support from the outset. To Brian MacMahon from the Expert Dojo Accelerator for his advice and support, to Oliver Schwabe we would like to extend our thanks for our partnership on European projects and Smart Cities Initiatives in the area of Decentralized CyberSecurity Meshes and Protocols. We thank you all for working with us through the long process of evolving the protocol concept, and for your friendship and help. A special thanks to the dozens of mentors from key industry spaces across the world-class accelerators we were finalists in, from the US, Canada, Chile, Austria, Portugal, and South Korea. From Norway our thanks go to Svein Erik for accompanying and supporting the project since the very beginning as a colleague and friend, Knut Grandhagen from the Norwegian Armed Forces Cyber Defense for his long standing support and belief in our project, and Firoz Shroff for his unique insights, lateral thinking and mentorship in business. We would like to dedicate the successful culmination of the first milestone of this momentous effort to the memory of our friend and mentor, Kjell Grandhagen, the former Chairman of NATO/OTAN Intelligence Committee. Kjell’s approachability, inspiration, foresight and vision around the fundamental need for the decentralization of CyberSecurity principles within the highest areas of criticality in society and beyond, helped inspire the whole project. His unwavering stance on key principles for society and geopolitical initiatives gave us the confidence to shape the path forward since the very first test phase, aligning his support in both the media and other key opinion pieces. Finally, we would like to acknowledge with gratitude, the support and love of our Families - they have all kept us going, and this project would not have been possible without them.