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Over the years, blockchain technology has seen major developments in the financial and transactional fields, with little else gaining global traction. However, the technology promises a revolution in “all” aspects of our digital and physical lives, changing how we own, interact, and build on the internet. To reach the goal of true decentralization through blockchain, a lot needs to be done in creating harmonious tools, connected platforms, and universal identities.
One such platform, LUKSO, is building a cohesive framework that brings everything together: new standards, a new blockchain, and universal profiles, to make sure blockchain technology flourishes globally. The LUKSO blockchain is the brainchild of Fabian Vogelsteller and Marjorie Hernandez, a blockchain engineer and a visionary design strategist, who came together to build a new-age Web3 platform.
In this piece, we go deeper into what LUKSO is, the creation of new blockchain standards (LUKSO Standard Proposals, or LSPs), how LUKSO is redefining blockchain technology, how to build on the blockchain, and the function of Universal Everything, the first true Web3 town hall.
LUKSO is a social layer-1 EVM blockchain built to redefine how Web3 works. It shifts the focus away from finance toward immersive, human-centered applications across fashion, art, gaming, and digital identity.
Founded by blockchain pioneer Fabian Vogelsteller, co-author of the ERC20 standard and builder of Mist and web3.js, and Marjorie Hernandez, the visionary founder of DEMAT, the first Web3 digital fashion marketplace, LUKSO offers a new kind of infrastructure: secure, interoperable, and built for mainstream usability. It’s a new technical foundation for the creative economy.
At the core of the network are the LUKSO Standard Proposals (LSPs), a modern set of smart contract standards (comparable in role to Ethereum’s ERCs) that enable more dynamic identity, asset, and permission models. One of the foundational standards, LSP0 (ERC725Account), powers Universal Profiles, smart accounts that act as a user's on-chain identity, asset hub, and permission system in one.
By design, these standards enable a more social, secure, and streamlined approach to interacting on-chain. LUKSO unifies fragmented blockchain experiences into a single, extensible framework where dApps, protocols, and users can interact intuitively, laying the groundwork for a more interconnected and creator-driven Web3.
As stated, LUKSO developed the LUKSO Standards Proposals (LSPs) as the core building blocks of its ecosystem. Creatives, developers, and organizations use the LSPs as building blocks and combine to create new and innovative protocols or dApps on the LUKSO Blockchain.
Initially, the standards are built for EVM functionality, but they can be transposed to other blockchains. They aim to increase functionality and user-friendliness within the blockchain ecosystem and to standardize identity, asset representation, and smart contract interaction.
The core LSPs not only help in developing next-generation applications but are also extensible to allow a ton of new use cases, away from the generic financial and transactional focus. Additionally, the LSPs simplify developer and user experience, allowing them to build blockchain-based applications that provide more flexibility, innovation, and creativity.
Some of the core LSPs on the LUKSO blockchain include:
LSP0 (ERC725Account): This is one of the foundational standards of the LUKSO ecosystem, built around the ERC725 standard. It powers the creation of digital identities that represent users, organizations and even devices onchain.
LSP1: This standard introduced the Universal Receiver, a unique feature that revolutionizes how transactions, transfers, and contract interactions are handled on the blockchain.
LSP7-DigitalAsset: This aims to solve the problems facing fungible assets on different blockchains. It is an interface standard which describes a set of methods that fungible asset contracts should implement, which other contracts and clients can call.
LSP16: This standard introduces a universal factory for deploying smart contracts using the CREATE2 opcode, ensuring consistent contract addresses across multiple blockchains.
Having forward-thinking blockchain standards and a next-gen blockchain platform is only the first step toward revolutionizing Web3. To bring these components together, LUKSO introduces Universal Everything, its flagship platform for exploring and interacting with the ecosystem. Combined with Universal Profiles, it turns user accounts into rich, on-chain identities that function across dApps and communities.
Universal Profiles allows users to unify their wallets, assets, social activity, and interactions under a single programmable smart account. These profiles act as the foundational layer for mainstream-ready applications. A user's posts, DAO contributions, and creative projects can be tied to one public profile, allowing on-chain reputation and transparency across platforms, organizations, and potentially even public institutions.
These profiles are also designed to be extensible. While still under development, they can support features like private messaging and zero-knowledge-enabled interactions through future integrations. Importantly, they do not rely on traditional login credentials like usernames and passwords. Instead, they’re governed by smart contracts with customizable permissions, supporting multi-key recovery, delegated access, and social recovery.
UniversalEverything.io is already live and serves as the entry point into the LUKSO ecosystem. It offers users the ability to connect their Universal Profiles, track on-chain activity, and begin exploring a growing set of tools and mini-apps. While still in its early phase, it hints at the potential of a fully integrated Web3 “town square,” where identities, content, and value flow together.
Together, Universal Everything and Universal Profiles lay the groundwork for a new vision of the internet, an interconnected layer where identity, culture, and ownership converge. It's a playground for what LUKSO calls Cultural Engineers: artists, developers, protocol creators, and community builders shaping the next era of digital life.
Several projects are already bringing this vision to life. Mustaa, a protocol rethinking access to high-value assets like yachts, is built on LUKSO standards such as LSP7 and Universal Profiles. It allows users to tokenize yacht time, manage access through smart contracts, and earn yield on unused time, all transparently tracked on-chain. Mustaa was a recipient of a LUKSO Developer Grant, which helped validate its concept and accelerate development.
Burnt Pix, a generative art project native to the LUKSO network, exemplifies the innovative use of LUKSO's NFT 2.0 standards. Each NFT begins as a blank canvas, with its image revealed through a community-driven refinement process that consumes computational iterations. Utilizing the LSP8 standard, Burnt Pix NFTs are not only unique but also dynamic, supporting future updates and interactions. This project highlights the creative and collaborative potential within the LUKSO ecosystem.
Universal Page, launched in early 2024, is a gasless NFT 2.0 marketplace that lets creators build personalized storefronts directly linked to their Universal Profiles. It originated at a LUKSO hackathon and continues to evolve with strong community support.
Together, these projects show how LUKSO’s infrastructure isn’t just theoretical, it’s already supporting real-world applications across luxury, fashion, and creator tech.
Since its inception in 2017, the LUKSO development team has steadily introduced new standards and infrastructure aimed at improving blockchain usability and adoption, particularly in areas like digital identity, NFTs, and creative ownership. While it still faces challenges in ecosystem growth and developer traction, its industry-specific focus gives it a distinct edge.
Rather than competing head-to-head with general-purpose chains like Ethereum or Solana, LUKSO is carving out its own category as a platform purpose-built for creative and cultural applications. Its role is less about throughput or DeFi, and more about promoting new forms of digital expression, ownership, and reputation onchain.
To scale, LUKSO will need to grow its developer community, secure meaningful collaborations, and surface more real-world use cases that demonstrate the utility of its native token, LYX. (Note: LYXe, its earlier Ethereum-based token, is being phased out via a migration to LYX on the LUKSO mainnet.)
If successful, LUKSO won’t replace existing blockchains, it will complement them, offering a credible path to mainstream relevance by doing something fundamentally different.
