An Italian non-profit foundation behind a public network
The Foundation exists to promote distributed ledger technology and to build, maintain and account for the infrastructure that LKSCOIN provides.
What the Foundation does
LKS Foundation is an Italian non-profit foundation whose purpose is to promote and spread understanding of distributed ledger technology, and to support initiatives built on the principle of verifiable information sharing.
To pursue those objectives the Foundation created LKSCOIN — today, a network for certifying, notarising, verifying and tracing data, documents, content and processes.
The Foundation maintains the codebase, coordinates the network with its operators, publishes the technical work and accounts for how funds are used.
How we intend to work
- Commit only to what is funded. Publicly declared deliverables have budget coverage and a date; everything else is labelled as direction.
- Publish on a fixed cadence. An update every two weeks, short is fine, negative results included.
- State limits before a client finds them. The legal perimeter of the proof is written into the technical and commercial material.
- Discuss economic changes in advance. Anything affecting operators goes to the working group before it is proposed.
Accounting for what was donated
Donations raised carry an obligation of transparency toward the people who gave. The Foundation publishes an updated statement — amount raised, amount spent, what it was spent on, and the remaining balance.
Treasury statement
Published and kept current, covering funds raised, expenditure by destination and remaining balance.
Latest statement →Budget allocation
The funded plan allocates budget by phase, with a contingency reserve that is itself accounted for. Zero allocation to marketing and graphic materials.
See allocation →Verifiable progress
Every funded phase has a deliverable that can be checked from outside the project: a report, a testnet, a migrated network, a working service.
See deliverables →Reactivation starts with the people who stayed
Operators who kept their nodes running through four quiet years bring three things the project cannot buy: technical competence, volunteer effort and legitimacy.
We are forming a technical working group of 5 to 10 of them. Without that group, any relaunch is perceived — correctly — as an operation imposed from outside.
A fixed update cadence completes the picture. What distinguishes a live project from one that publishes a document and disappears is regularity, not volume.
Join the working groupPartners and integrations
The Foundation is open to working with qualified trust service providers, DPP platform vendors, ERP and MES integrators, and industrial partners willing to run a real pilot.
If your organisation fits one of those descriptions, the contact form below reaches the right people directly.
Who is behind the project
IT project analyst since the 1990s, with a portfolio of delivered systems and collaborations in the medical and industrial sectors. Leads the technical relaunch of the network and the 2.0 programme.
Lead contact for the masternode pool project and the main point of reference for node operators; specialist in distributed ledger operations and digital wallets.
Attorney at law and member of the Foundation's board, responsible for its legal affairs. Owner and founder of the Candide Cultural Center.
Full-stack developer with specific expertise in project management and more than 15 years of software development experience.
Web developer and electronics technician, specialised in web and multimedia, with a long-standing interest in distributed ledgers and IoT.
Entrepreneur, networker and financial specialist, focused on payment solutions and digital assets.
Founder and CEO of Vistra Srl, an international provider of QHSE support (quality, health & safety, environment). Speaker at more than 100 conferences alongside leading national and international authorities.
Entrepreneur for over 20 years; since 2014 dedicated to the study of distributed ledger technology as an instrument for strengthening commercial activity.
Get in touch
Tell us which of these you are — it routes your message to the right person.
Companies
Notarisation, traceability, pilots and integrations.
Masternode operators
Census registration, migration support, working group.
Developers
API feedback, the independent verifier, contributions.
Press and institutions
Foundation activity, regulatory positioning, collaborations.
Notices and limits
Nature of the proof. Storage of an electronic document on a distributed ledger currently constitutes computer-based evidence, freely assessed by a court. It is not equivalent to a qualified electronic time stamp under Article 41 of Regulation (EU) 910/2014, because the implementing technical standards contemplated by Italian law have not been adopted to date. Where legal certainty of date is required, we recommend a hybrid configuration combining a qualified trust service provider with ledger anchoring. Full explanation →
Notarisation is not an electronic signature. The two are distinct legal instruments and are presented as such.
Data protection. No personal data is recorded on the ledger. A public ledger is incompatible with the right to erasure; the network stores cryptographic proofs, never content. Attestations can be logically revoked without deleting the historical proof.
Forward-looking statements. Descriptions of services under development represent planned functionality and current intent. They are not statements about currently available features, and they may change as technical validation, testnet results and legal review progress.
No advice, no offer. Nothing on this site constitutes financial, investment or legal advice, nor an offer to sell or a solicitation to purchase any asset. Regulatory references are informational and do not replace a legal opinion.