— FRAMING
Why this framing matters.
The ecosystem section is separate from client work because the engagement shape is different. Client work is paid engineering — Zpoken ships scope for an issuer, a chain, a stablecoin protocol. Ecosystem work is contribution — grants, contracted protocol engineering, and open-source that serve public infrastructure.
Wormhole spans two shapes — a Foundation contributor grant (ZK light clients) and contracted engineering (MultiGov's Solana implementation). Zpoken is a member of Wormhole's decentralized contributor set either way, with the light-client work and the Solana commit record public. On Gonka, Zpoken is an engineering contributor — commits are public; Zpoken is not a Gonka employee or investor. Penumbra is OSS (the Prax wallet and gRPC services are open-source contributions, not a paid deliverable). The /ecosystem section documents contribution to public infrastructure; /work documents client takeovers.