Lum Network

What Lum Network does

Lum Network is a Paris-based, private blockchain startup founded in 2017 that has built a decentralized protocol for consumer review verification. The platform is constructed on the Cosmos SDK using a Tendermint consensus model, positioning the network as a trust-minimized alternative to centralized review aggregators (e.g., Google, Trustpilot, Amazon) where review manipulation and fake content are known problems. The product suite comprises a core decentralized review system plus three named modules: Skeepers Rewards (a user-incentivization layer), DFract (a fractional-ownership / DeFi capability), and developer Tools intended to support third-party integration.

The company operates with a headcount of 11–50 employees and is led by founder Sarah-Diane Eck, with Enguerrand Pinot serving as Head of Engineering. Lum Network raised $4 million in a December 2021 private token sale led by a syndicate of crypto-native investors, including Arcanum Capital, High Naut Capital, Ki Foundation, Klub, and SwissBorg. The go-to-market motion is community-led, targeting both contributors and consumers of verified review data.

No pricing is publicly disclosed, and no customer logos, revenue figures, or paying-customer case studies are available. The implied revenue model is most likely token-based (utility-token incentives, transaction fees) or subscription-based, but this is not confirmed in the source material. Operating geographies, distribution channels, and marketing channels are likewise unspecified, leaving commercial traction unobservable from public information.

Name

Lum Network

Website

https://lum.network

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lum Network is a Paris-based blockchain startup building a decentralized consumer review verification protocol on Cosmos SDK and Tendermint. Its platform bundles Skeepers Rewards, DFract, and developer tools to address fake and manipulated reviews on centralized platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Review Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYFSAPAJAI

Regulatory Reporting, Tax & Audit Trails (reconciliation, provenance)

Financial & Insurance/Blockchain & Web3/Security, Compliance & Risk (auditing, monitoring, analytics, AML/KYC)

SECONDARYFSAPAJAM

Privacy, Data Protection & Compliance (zk compliance, GDPR/PII handling)

Financial & Insurance/Blockchain & Web3/Security, Compliance & Risk (auditing, monitoring, analytics, AML/KYC)

Keywords

• Decentralized review platform
• Blockchain infrastructure
• Consumer trust verification
• Web3 protocols
• Cosmos sdk development

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Decentralized Review Platform: Revenue model not explicitly disclosed in available sources. As a blockchain startup building a decentralized review system, potential revenue streams could include token-based incentives, transaction fees, or premium services, but specific details are not publicly available.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Lum Network builds a decentralized consumer review system on a blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint consensus engine. The platform focuses on verifying, authenticating, and timestamping consumer reviews to deliver trust and transparency for businesses and end users. It also supports modules such as rewards distribution and fractional ownership tooling.

Product overview

Lum Network is a blockchain-based decentralized review platform built on the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint consensus model. The platform comprises a core decentralized review system aimed at enhancing trust and transparency in consumer reviews, supported by several integrated modules including Skeepers Rewards (for user incentivization), DFract (for fractional ownership features), and developer Tools. The ecosystem leverages blockchain technology to create a trust layer for consumer reviews.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Skeepers Rewards A rewards distribution module on the Lum Network protocol that enables businesses to incentivize consumer review activity on-chain. It is designed for platforms and brands that want to reward verified reviewers using blockchain-native incentives.
• DFract A fractional ownership and DeFi primitive built on the Lum Network that enables tokenized, fractional exposure to assets for users of the protocol. It targets developers and businesses that want to integrate DeFi-style fractionalization alongside the review protocol.
• Lum Network Tools A set of developer tools that allow engineers and partner businesses to build, integrate, and interact with the Lum Network protocol, including integrating decentralized review verification into their own applications.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• SwissBorg: SwissBorg is a crypto wealth management platform and one of Lum's disclosed investors. It is a strategic partner / ecosystem connector rather than a direct competitor, but provides access to a large retail crypto user base that could feed review participation.
• Cosmos (Interchain): Cosmos is the interoperability protocol / SDK on which Lum is built. It is a platform/enabler rather than competitor, but represents the broader ecosystem of IBC-connected apps where Lum's reputation primitives could be deployed as infrastructure.

Broad incumbents

• Reputation.com: Reputation.com is an enterprise reputation management platform offering review monitoring, response, and analytics across industries. It competes in the same "trust and authenticity in consumer reviews" space, though with a centralized SaaS model rather than blockchain.
• Trustpilot: Trustpilot is the dominant centralized consumer review platform with hundreds of millions of reviews. It is the closest direct functional competitor to Lum's stated mission of authentic consumer review verification, though it operates a centralized rather than decentralized trust model.
• Yelp: Yelp is a long-standing centralized consumer review platform with strong local-business network effects. It represents the incumbent model Lum is positioning its decentralized alternative against, particularly for trust and authenticity of reviews.

Direct peers

• Skeepers: Skeepers is a French consumer reviews / UGC / customer experience platform whose name appears directly in Lum's "Skeepers Rewards" product. Lum appears to be integrating or building on Skeepers' review infrastructure, making it the closest direct peer and likely a strategic partner.

Emerging players

• Idena: Idena is a blockchain-based proof-of-personhood network for verifying unique human identities. It overlaps with Lum's identity-verification layer needed to ensure one-person-one-review, addressing fake-review mitigation through decentralized identity rather than centralized KYC.
• Gitcoin Passport: Gitcoin Passport is a decentralized identity / Sybil-resistance primitive aggregating proof-of-personhood attestations. It addresses the same "verify genuine users" challenge Lum targets for review authenticity, though in the grants/funding context.
• Reevo (Decentralized Review Platform): Reevo is an emerging Web3 project attempting to tokenize and decentralize the review economy, addressing fake reviews through token incentives. It is the closest emerging direct competitor to Lum's decentralized review thesis.
• Web3Reputation (Kleros / Kleros Court): Kleros is a decentralized arbitration and reputation protocol on Ethereum using crypto-economic incentives. It overlaps with Lum's concept of decentralized trust verification, though focuses on dispute resolution rather than consumer reviews specifically.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lum_network
• Facebookfacebook.com/lum.network

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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