Written by

Zach Kelling

At

Tue Mar 03 2026

The Operating System for Sovereign Apps

Base owns state. Lux owns trust. Seven years of commits, every piece traceable to a first hash.

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Every app you use today rents you access to your own data. We built the replacement. It took seven years.

Base is the personal computer of Web5. Lux is the trust kernel.

Provenance

Every piece traces to a first commit:

Architecture

Base (2022) — encrypted vault, CRDT sync, realtime APIs, Base Functions. The data plane.

Lux (2020) — 15 chains on every validator. Identity, keys, threshold FHE, MPC signing, EVM, DEX, bridge, ZK, quantum consensus, AI inference. The trust kernel.

Three tiers: AES-256-GCM + ML-KEM (default), TFHE threshold reveal (high-value), CKKS confidential compute (new products).

86 Lean 4 proofs. Zero sorry. 80+ papers. Red-teamed. Shipped.

The operating system for sovereign apps. Base owns state. Lux owns trust. Users own everything that matters.