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About Us

Driven by a mission,
for the public good.

Livre des Crus is a non-profit foundation to build neutral, open infrastructure for the wine world — building trust in the global wine industry through blockchain technology. The return we are after is the safety and sustainability of the wine ecosystem.

The Company

A non-profit foundation.

Livre des Crus is governed by a non-profit foundation. There is no protocol token to speculate on and no rent extracted from transactions. Verification and reading the registry are free — it is a public utility, not a market to be taxed. Sustainability comes from foundation funding and modest membership contributions from producers and institutions.

Neutral

No single château, négociant, or auction house owns the registry. A foundation and consortium steward an open standard; no member can rewrite history.

Open

Open data model, open verification, open source. A producer can always leave without losing anything they put in.

Private by default

Ownership is provable; identity is not exposed. A serious cellar is a burglary target — privacy is protection, not a concession.

Physical-first

The ledger secures the digital record; tamper-evident hardware secures the binding to the bottle. Neither works alone, and we treat both as the protocol.

Operations

Who runs it.

The two hardest parts of this — secure key management and resisting de-anonymization — are home turf for the operating team.

Michael Gronager

Operations

A pioneer of the modern digital-asset era. Michael helped build some of the foundational institutions of the crypto industry — co-founding one of the world's most trusted exchanges, then creating the on-chain intelligence that governments, banks and investigators now rely on to follow money across the blockchain. Where others saw an anonymous frontier, he built the instruments that made it accountable. Two decades of that work rest on a single conviction: open cryptographic systems earn trust only when their integrity is engineered, never assumed. At Livre des Crus he turns that conviction on the world's great wines — guarding producer signing keys as a root of trust, and keeping ownership pseudonymous against the most sophisticated adversary. Securing keys at scale and resisting de-anonymization are not new challenges to him; they are the problems he has spent a career solving.

Dawn Kim

Operations

A blockchain analyst and crypto investigator. She has worked numerous cases spanning international narcotics trafficking, national-security investigations, fraud and cybercrime — following illicit activity on-chain where it tries to hide. She brings that investigative discipline to wine: tracing provenance, hardening the registry against de-anonymization, and building the tamper-evident audit trail that wine-fraud investigators have never had.

Governance

Board of Directors

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To be announced.

“The goal is not profit. The goal is a safer, more sustainable wine ecosystem — and the trust that makes great wine worth collecting at all.”