Company & people

About WebShield

The patent-holding company behind the Quantum Privacy Network architecture.

Why WebShield exists

WebShield exists to hold and defend the patent portfolio that makes the Quantum Privacy Network enforceable in software and recognizable under law. The architecture rests on four foundational primitives at population scale — universal access to the network, universal exchange of value across it, universal ownership of the value created, and universal liquidity within the network — which together enable Universal AI to operate lawfully in every regulated domain and yield the Universal Abundance that emerges when structure, not policy, guarantees the foundation. WebShield's role is to keep that architecture enforceable. Adoption, governance, and operations live with our sibling entities.

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WebShield Founders

Institutional backing

WebShield and EP3 Foundation

WebShield co-founded EP3 Foundation and remains its anchor IP partner. The architecture WebShield's portfolio describes is meant to be carried into use by EP3's broader network — currently 111 members across 8 Accelerator programs and 45+ affiliated organizations, working at the adoption layer the patents enable. The two WebShield co-founders sit on this network; they don't comprise it.

EP3 Foundation Leadership ep3foundation.org/people
Where WebShield sits

Our Ecosystem

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You are here
WebShield, Inc.
webshield.io
Patent and IP home for the Quantum Privacy Network.
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EP3 Foundation
ep3foundation.org ↗
Adoption layer. 8 Accelerators, 45+ affiliates, 111+ members.
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QPN Catalyst
qpncatalyst.io ↗
Contributor action layer. Records contribution attribution.
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Quantum Privacy LLC
Commercial licensing.
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EP3 Networks
Fundraising vehicle.