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Who signed is a fact about a key. Who authorised is a fact about a company. GLEIF, describing its own standard earlier this month: the verifiable LEI sits in a multi-signature group held by the entity's Legal Authorized Representatives, with a signing threshold of at least two. Read that as corporate law rather than cryptography. Joint signature rights, dual control, board resolutions — the whole apparatus exists so that no one person is the company. The credential reproduces it in a form a machine can check. So the relying party checks that the entity decided, not that a key was used. Attestation is not attribution. #AccountableEconomy

Neutrality is not a property of the ledger. It is a property of the admission rule. A members-only ledger answers whether a counterparty may transact once, at the door, by admission. Inside the set, the answer is yes because you are inside the set. That is a real check on membership. It is not a check on the counterparty at the moment value moves, and everyone outside the list is not unverified — they are unaddressable. The alternative is not fewer rules. It is answering the same question with a credential that binds a legal entity to a key, checkable by the party relying on it, revocable by its issuer. #NeutralSettlement

Attribution, not attestation, makes an agent admissible The useful question is not whether agent authority can be described in technical terms. It is whether another regulated party can verify the legal root, the mandate and the evidence without rebuilding trust from scratch. That is the LTIN line: argue from what is evidenced, keep specified layers in the future tense, and do not let almost-true claims do the work. #LawfulAgents

A standard becomes real when others qualify for it The useful question is not whether organisational identity can be described in technical terms. It is whether another regulated party can verify the legal root, the mandate and the evidence without rebuilding trust from scratch. That is the LTIN line: argue from what is evidenced, keep specified layers in the future tense, and do not let almost-true claims do the work. #IdentityRoot

There is a difference between using a standard and authoring one. Plenty of organisations can adopt a standard. They implement it, build on top of it, and benefit from the trust it carries. That is valuable work, but it is a different thing entirely from being one of the parties that helps define the standard in the first place. The distinction matters more than it might seem. When you only use a standard, you are always downstream of decisions made elsewhere. You inherit the framework, and you adapt to it as it evolves. When you help author it, you are part of the process that determines how identity is verified, how trust is established, and how the whole system holds together. You are shaping the foundation rather than simply standing on it and that is where LTIN sits. We are not building a proprietary alternative and asking the market to trust it. We work within the GLEIF framework and the ISO 17442 standard, the global infrastructure that already governs how legal entities are identified. Our aim is to help bring those credentials into use in a way that is real, enforceable, and usable at scale. That aim carries responsibility. Aligning with a standard means being accountable to it. It means operating in the open, under governance the whole market can see, rather than behind a closed system that asks for trust it has not earned. It means working toward credentials that mean the same thing everywhere, because they rest on a foundation no single company owns. The reason this matters for the future of onchain finance is straightforward. Systems built on proprietary identity will always be limited by how much the market is willing to trust their author. Systems built on open, authored standards are limited by nothing but their own reach. One approach competes for a cycle. The other becomes part of the infrastructure that outlasts every cycle. Using a standard makes you a participant. Helping author one makes you part of the foundation. That is the distinction we are built on.

Why start at identity rather than the chain? It is a fair question. Most conversations about the future of finance begin with infrastructure. Which chain, which protocol, which settlement layer will win. We think that starts in the wrong place. Everything in finance is downstream of one question: who is this? Before a transaction can settle, before compliance can clear it, before a counterparty can be trusted, someone has to answer that question with certainty. When the answer is missing, or arrives too late, the entire system compensates. Institutions build remediation processes for trades that should never have happened. Compliance becomes something you bolt on after the fact rather than something built into the foundation. That is the problem LTIN was created to solve. We anchor identity at the root, before the transaction, not after it. A verified legal entity, bound to a credential, recognised across chains and jurisdictions. Built on the GLEIF vLEI framework, with LTIN acting as the qualified issuer that makes those credentials real and enforceable. The reason we start with identity rather than the chain is simple. Chains are interchangeable. Any settlement layer can move value from one place to another. What none of them can do on their own is tell you whether the two parties moving that value are actually allowed to. Identity is the scarce layer. It is the part that cannot be copied, forked, or subsidised into existence. Get it right, and the rest of the stack becomes far more useful. Get it wrong, and no amount of throughput will fix what is broken underneath. Sovereignty matters here too. Identity infrastructure this important cannot sit inside a jurisdiction that can reach into it or switch it off. LTIN is built where the legal foundation, the regulatory environment, and the technical architecture align to keep that infrastructure genuinely neutral and genuinely durable. The next era of onchain finance will not be won on speed. It will be won on trust. And trust always begins with the same question. Who is this?

Trustworthy digital infrastructure belongs to everyone who relies on it. That conviction sits at the heart of what we are building in Liechtenstein. Today LTIN and Zilliqa are deepening the partnership we began at LTIN's launch in October 2025, with a shared purpose: a sovereign trust layer for the global digital economy, infrastructure whose value is measured not only in financial return but in the trust, sovereignty, resilience and inclusion it creates. As the economy moves on-chain, with tokenized assets projected to reach US$16 trillion by 2030 (Boston Consulting Group), trust has to be built into the foundations. Our deepened partnership, supported by joint investment, advances three building blocks: A verifiable identity issuer. LTIN is in the process of obtaining GLEIF accreditation to issue verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers (vLEI), giving organisations tamper-proof, machine-readable identity. A neutral mediation layer. Zilliqa contributes a neutral, interoperable layer that connects separate systems and confirms counterparties meet identity and compliance requirements before transactions settle. An efficient settlement network. Together we intend to develop a trusted settlement network spanning European financial centres, including Vaduz, Zurich and Frankfurt. Anchored in Liechtenstein, under the Blockchain Act (TVTG) and aligned with EU MiCAR, state-backed through Telecom Liechtenstein, on 100 percent renewable energy. These initiatives are in active development, not yet deployed. Break Barriers. Connect the Ecosystem. Enable the Future. https://lnkd.in/djaPZQmU #DigitalSovereignty #Blockchain #Liechtenstein #TokenizedAssets #vLEI #PublicGood

LTIN joins CfC St. Moritz Industry Days Friday January 16th The event brings together policymakers, regulators, technologists and institutional leaders to reflect on Liechtenstein’s first mover journey and what it takes to translate strong frameworks into real world adoption. Across keynotes and panels, the programme explores the governmental vision, the strategic role of the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN), the gap between institutional readiness and market traction, lessons from early pilots, and how collaborative development can scale trust beyond individual initiatives. Dr. Daniel Risch Franz Wirnsperger Bernd Liebscher Yves Holenstein Greg Chew Dennis A. Platzl Lucian Aguilar Max Heinzle Marcel Fleisch Marcel Hostettler Markus Menzl Patrick Chopard Ravi de Silva Mack McCauley #LTIN #CfCIndustryDays #PublicPrivatePartnership #CoInnovation

LTIN launches as Liechtenstein’s sovereign blockchain infrastructure network We are proud to announce the launch of the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN) - a sovereign, state-backed blockchain infrastructure providing secure, compliant, and sustainable digital trust services for enterprises and institutions across Europe and globally. LTIN operates under Liechtenstein’s Blockchain Act (TVTG) and is fully aligned with EU MiCAR, offering the only blockchain infrastructure built for institutional compliance from inception. Majority-owned by Telecom Liechtenstein AG, LTIN extends the reliability of the country’s trusted national infrastructure into the digital age - ensuring validation, identity, and transaction processing remain under national oversight. Our launch partners Bank Frick, Bitcoin Suisse AG, Solstice Labs AG, and Zilliqa bring deep expertise in finance, blockchain, and digital infrastructure. Early contributors including INACTA, LUKSO, QPQ AG - Creator of the Internet of Economics, and Swiss Subnet join in shaping this unique public-private partnership. LTIN stands for a new era where regulatory excellence meets technological innovation - enabling enterprises to adopt blockchain with confidence, compliance, and sustainability. Learn more: www.ltin.li #LTIN #Liechtenstein #Blockchain #TelecomLiechtenstein #DigitalTrust #Infrastructure #MiCAR #TVTG #Sustainability #Innovation #Compliance