Public Statement from the Founder
STILL I STAND
On Neutral Coordination Infrastructure
The world does not lack platforms.
It lacks coordination.
For more than a decade, markets have optimized speed, liquidity, and distribution. Settlement accelerated. Interfaces improved. Capital scaled globally.
What remained unresolved was structure.
Identity remained fragmented.
Routing remained discretionary.
Governance remained entangled with capital.
Infrastructure requires more than movement.
It requires determinism.
World Blockchain Bank was not built as a product.
It was built as a coordination layer.
A neutral substrate beneath markets, platforms, and jurisdictions — designed to anchor identity, clarify routing, and orchestrate settlement without custody or capture.
This work is not promotional.
It is architectural.
And architecture must be transparent.
For that reason, three documents are made public.
I. The Founder Doctrine
Still I Stand — Designed to Stand Without Me
This document establishes the constitutional philosophy behind neutral coordination infrastructure.
It defines:
• Why identity precedes markets
• Why routing determines sovereignty
• Why governance must be separated from capital
• Why infrastructure must outlive its founder
It is not a memoir.
It is a structural doctrine.
II. The Stewardship White Paper
Constitutional Stewardship of Neutral Coordination Infrastructure
This paper clarifies the separation between commercial scale and constitutional authority.
It defines:
• Why infrastructure must be stewarded, not owned
• Why operational scale must not imply governance control
• Why neutrality must remain insulated from capital capture
Stewardship is maturation.
Ownership at the coordination layer is destabilization.
III. The Stewardship Transfer Framework
A Constitutional Model for Operational Transition
This framework defines the mechanics of transition.
It outlines:
• How stewardship transfers without governance capture
• How identity and routing remain insulated
• How non-custodial orchestration is preserved
• How founder irrelevance becomes structural rather than aspirational
It is not negotiation.
It is encoding.
Institutional Position
World Blockchain Bank does not compete with platforms.
It coordinates beneath them.
It does not replace sovereign jurisdictions.
It structures their interaction.
It does not seek ownership of markets.
It preserves neutrality within them.
Infrastructure does not require admiration.
It requires endurance.
If the coordination layer functions independently of personality,
independently of capital concentration,
and independently of operator identity,
then it was built correctly.
— Stephan Schürmann
Founder & Executive Chairman
World Blockchain Bank