The story
Turning a technical protocol pitch into participation models
An early programme design separated enterprise participation into Infrastructure, Application and Network streams, recognising that organisations might contribute by operating infrastructure, building products or creating ecosystem relationships.
Lionscraft's working materials explored alternative structures such as Explorer, Ambassador and Builder, each representing a different level of readiness and expected contribution.
The programme work considered membership benefits, workshops, account support, network participation, co-marketing, commercial commitments and grant-related opportunities. These were design alternatives and iterations, not three separate commercial programmes sold to the same market.
Working through real enterprise use cases
Telecommunications was one of the sectors investigated in depth.
The technical and market research examined how network capabilities could support blockchain applications. A comparison of telecom APIs considered identity verification, SIM-swap detection, device location, carrier billing and ways to associate a phone number with a blockchain address.
The research included major operators such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Orange, as well as opportunities linked to stc.
This work gave the programme more specific potential conversations than a general appeal to “enterprise blockchain adoption”.
Building the partner and launch programme
Lionscraft's archive includes proposal decks, programme descriptions, website and newsletter material, event planning, partner outreach, focus-group concepts and execution schedules.
The work considered how enterprises would be onboarded, who would support them, what activities would happen first and which benefits were deliverable at different stages.
There were also specific prospective partner opportunities: Pairpoint's potential infrastructure participation, Japan-focused ecosystem and validator cooperation, and sports and entertainment concepts. The source files preserve negotiations and design material, but draft grant requests and proposed applications are not counted as signed customer contracts or deployed products.
NEON launched in September 2024
On 10 September 2024, Aleph Zero publicly announced NEON, with Pairpoint among the named enterprise relationships.
The launch is a documented programme milestone following the design and preparation work. A public launch is not a reliable count of paying members, recurring working-group participation or products subsequently built by those members; those outcomes would need separate records.