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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 file.


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).


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).


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.


Further Reading

Contact

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