# About PezkuwiChain — Brand & Identity

## An Independent Kurdish Blockchain Project

**PezkuwiChain** is the sovereign blockchain of the **Digital Kurdistan State (DKS)**,
developed by **PEZ KIWI Company**, a private company registered with the Kurdistan
Regional Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry (Registration No. 40633, Erbil, Iraq).

PezkuwiChain is an **independent project**. It is built upon the open-source
**polkadot-sdk** codebase, licensed under the **Apache License 2.0** and **GPL-3.0** —
licenses that expressly permit independent forking, modification, and redistribution.
PezkuwiChain is **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by** Parity Technologies,
the Web3 Foundation, or the Polkadot project. Full attribution to the original authors is
provided in the repository [`NOTICE`](../NOTICE) file.

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## The Name: "Pezkuwi"

**"Pezkuwi"** is the **Kurmancî Kurdish** word for the **wild mountain goat** — the bezoar
wild goat (*Capra aegagrus*) native to the Zagros mountains of Kurdistan. The Soranî dialect
equivalent, **"bizinîkîwî"**, is used in internal technical naming (e.g. `Bizinikiwi`, the
core framework). Both refer to the same animal — the national totem of the Kurdish people,
symbolizing resilience, freedom, and the bond between Kurds and their mountains.

The Kurmancî compound combines **"pez"** (small livestock/caprine, from the ancient
Indo-Iranian root *pasu-*) and **"kûvî"** (wild, mountain-dwelling).

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## The Logo & Colors

- **Central sun (Roj)** — the national symbol of the Kurdish people, from the Kurdistan flag.
- **Six petals** in a floral/rosette arrangement — the four regions of Kurdistan (Bakur,
  Başûr, Rojava, Rojhilat) plus the global diaspora, drawn from Kurdish carpet and textile motifs.
- **Kurdish national colors** — *kesk* (green: land), *sor* (red: sacrifice), *zer* (yellow: sun).

PezkuwiChain uses no color outside the Kurdish national palette. The red is the deep
Kurdish flag red (*sor*).

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## Mission

PezkuwiChain exists to build decentralized, borderless digital infrastructure for the
Kurdish nation and for all stateless peoples and sovereign communities who share the values
of freedom, resilience, and self-determination.

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## Further Reading

- [BRAND_HERITAGE.md](./BRAND_HERITAGE.md) — naming origins, etymology, and cultural foundations
- [VISUAL_IDENTITY.md](./VISUAL_IDENTITY.md) — color palette, logo variants, and usage guidelines

## Contact

**PEZ KIWI Company** · info@pezkuwichain.io · https://pezkuwichain.io