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     <h1>Hyperlight</h1>
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-    <p><strong>Hyperlight is a lightweight Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) designed to be embedded within applications. It enables safe execution of untrusted code within <i>micro virtual machines</i> with very low latency and minimal overhead.</strong></p>    
+    <p><strong>Hyperlight is a lightweight Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) designed to be embedded within applications. It enables safe execution of untrusted code within <i>micro virtual machines</i> with very low latency and minimal overhead.</strong> <br> We are a <a href="https://cncf.io/">Cloud Native Computing Foundation</a> sandbox project. </p>    
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 > Note: Hyperlight is a nascent project with an evolving API and no guaranteed support. Assistance is provided on a