A sovereign trust layer for the global digital economy, verifiable identity, open interoperability and institutional settlement, anchored in Liechtenstein, and leveraging Zilliqa’s highly scalable technology
Vaduz, July 7, 2026 — The Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN), the sovereign blockchain infrastructure majority-owned by Telecom Liechtenstein, and the public blockchain Zilliqa today announced a deepened strategic partnership to deliver a trustworthy digital trust layer for institutions, businesses and the wider public. With this agreement and the respective joint investments, Zilliqa will also become a major shareholder of LTIN, together with Telecom Liechtenstein as the majority shareholder.
Building on the founding collaboration established at LTIN’s launch in October 2025, the partners are anchoring their partnership in the common good: Infrastructure whose value is measured in both financial return, as well the trust, sovereignty, resilience and inclusion it creates for the digital economy. The potential of this infrastructure will be grown and realized by an ecosystem of financial institutions from decentralized and traditional finance as well as technology partners.
As the global economy increasingly moves on-chain, value creation will depend on tokenizing assets as well as on embedding trust at every critical point where identities are established, rights are verified, transactions are authorised and compliance is fulfilled. Positioned across these technical and institutional choke points, LTIN enables trusted commercial operation between public and private actors, transforming trust itself into shared digital infrastructure. With tokenized assets projected to reach US$ 16 trillion by 20301, and digital identity and programmable trust becoming foundational to the broader digital economy, the ecosystem is designed to remove structural barriers to institutional adoption and accelerate the growth of on-chain finance.
LTIN contributes sovereign trust infrastructure, while Zilliqa brings proven expertise in building high-performance public blockchain technology and a long-standing commitment to open, interoperable distributed systems. Combining institutional trust, regulatory alignment and scalable blockchain infrastructure, the partners are creating an open, interoperable foundation for next-generation digital infrastructure.
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The partnership advances three building blocks, each addressing a structural weakness in today’s digital economy.
A verifiable identity issuer (vLEI)
Digital business identities remain insecure and costly to verify, and fraud and opacity are increasing. LTIN is in the process of obtaining the GLEIF accreditation to be an issuer of verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers. On this basis, LTIN plans to provide tamper-proof, machine-readable organisational identity, a trust anchor for the digital economy, delivering transparency and legal certainty as a public good.
A neutral mediation layer
Closed platform silos and dependence on a handful of providers slow innovation and lock participants in. Zilliqa contributes a neutral, interoperable layer that connects separate systems and verifies that counterparties satisfy applicable identity and compliance requirement before transactions settle, enabling open interoperability instead of platform lock-in while strengthening fair competition and digital sovereignty.
An efficient settlement network
Settlement over legacy intermediary chains is slow, costly and opaque. The partners intend to jointly develop the foundations for a trusted settlement network spanning European financial centers, including Vaduz, Zurich and Frankfurt, lowering barriers and increasing financial inclusion and stability.
Together, the three initiatives form a single proposition: Trustworthy digital infrastructure as a contribution to the common good.
A sovereign foundation, by design
LTIN extends Telecom Liechtenstein’s trusted national infrastructure into the digital age. Structured as a public-private partnership on a common-good framework, LTIN operates under Liechtenstein’s Blockchain Act (TVTG) with alignment to the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), keeping validation, identity and transaction processing under national oversight and within European jurisdiction. State backing through majority shareholder Telecom Liechtenstein provides the reliability institutions require, while a commitment to 100 percent renewable energy across operations extends the public-value logic to sustainability.
Statements
“Trustworthy digital infrastructure is a public good. Liechtenstein combines a long tradition of trust with regulation that fosters innovation. With Zilliqa, we are charting a new course in the open digital economy. Identity, interoperability and settlement should serve sovereignty, resilience and inclusion," said Franz Wirnsperger, Chairman, LTIN
“Zilliqa has spent years solving the technical challenges of scalable public blockchain infrastructure. We are now applying that expertise to an even harder challenge: making trust a native part of the digital economy. Open systems only achieve institutional adoption when trust becomes part of the infrastructure itself. Together with LTIN, we are building that foundation, open by default, trusted by design,” said Mark Hemsley, Chairman, Zilliqa
About the partners
About LTIN: The Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN) provides secure, sustainable and regulatory-compliant blockchain infrastructure for corporates and institutions across Europe and worldwide. LTIN is majority-owned by Telecom Liechtenstein, which thereby establishes a further line of business and scales its existing digital infrastructure and capabilities out of Liechtenstein.
Operating under Liechtenstein's blockchain law (TVTG) in alignment with the EU's MiCAR, LTIN delivers sovereign trust and integrity services — verifiable identity, neutral mediation and efficient settlement. Data sovereignty in Europe and operation on 100 percent renewable energy are binding commitments.
About Zilliqa: Zilliqa is a high-performance public blockchain pioneering trusted, credential-enabled infrastructure for institutional finance and the digital economy. Through its partnership with LTIN, Zilliqa is extending its expertise in scalable distributed systems to support sovereign trust infrastructure, open interoperability and next-generation digital asset markets.
Media contacts
Sacha Uhlmann, CEO, LTIN, sacha.uhlmann@ltin.li Alexander Zahnd, CEO, Zilliqa; azahnd@zilliqa.com Media hotline, Hirzel.Neef.Schmid.Counselors – H/Advisors +41 43 344 42 42
