Illiqua · What We Are

Charitable crowdfunding, reimagined around art.

Illiqua is a crowdfunding mechanism for charitable giving, built around something worth gathering around. Not a gallery, not an auction house, not an investment platform.

The Idea

Most crowdfunding asks you to believe in a number. Illiqua asks you to believe in an object, a real physical work of art, donated to a cause, staying intact and on permanent display while thousands of people each claim a small piece of its story.

When a charity donates a work to Illiqua, we don't sell it. We don't cut it up. We don't lock it in a vault. We hang it, exhibit it, and invite the world to participate in it, one certificate at a time.

Where The Money Goes

80%
to the charity partner

Direct, per certificate sold. Not a pledge. Routed at the point of sale.

20%
Illiqua platform fee

Covers tokenization, legal structuring, wallet infrastructure, gallery space, yearly viewings, and permanent storage for every certificate.

3%
secondary royalty

Routed automatically on every resale via native XRP Ledger mechanics, indefinitely.

What We Do

•Source donated artworks from artists and institutions who want their work to do more than hang quietly on a wall.
•Tokenize each piece through the Patina Protocol, our own artwork-agnostic engine built on the XRP Ledger, generating a unique, permanently stored certificate for every cell sold.
•Organize gallery space and arrange yearly viewings so certificate holders can see the work they are part of in person.
•Maintain the live digital gallery indefinitely, the gold mask lifting cell by cell as each certificate is claimed, visible to anyone, forever.
•Handle permanent storage on Arweave so every certificate and its metadata exists independently of Illiqua as a company.

Who We Are

Illiqua is an early-stage project built by one person who believes that art, generosity, and technology belong in the same room. We are based in Germany, operating on the XRP Ledger, and currently working through legal and charity partner clearances before a full public launch.

We entered the Making Waves Hackathon 2026 as a deliberate stress test of the full pipeline before opening to the public. The first mainnet certificate was minted on June 29, 2026. Everything you see is real and running.

About Ownership

The painting stays on the wall.

A common and completely fair question is: what do I actually own?

You own a certificate. Not a physical fragment of the artwork, not a share in a company, not a promise of financial return. A certificate is a permanently recorded, individually numbered token on the XRP Ledger that corresponds to one exact grid position on the artwork's surface.

The artwork itself will never be cut, divided, sold, or distributed. It was donated to Illiqua precisely because it has cultural value that outlasts any single sale, and our commitment to the artist, the charity, and every certificate holder is that it stays that way. The piece will be kept in proper storage, exhibited in gallery space, and made available for yearly viewings that certificate holders are welcome to attend.

Think of it less like buying a slice of a pie, and more like having your name permanently written into the story of something that matters, while the thing itself stays whole.

View our Making Waves Hackathon 2026 pitch deck