Yea, the only financing so far in fact comes from an eu tender for building what they call “anti counterfeiting infrastructure”.
I liked the call because it has to be open source and not locked to any technology. The failure of Tradelens by IBM was very loud: you can’t have this system maintained by a single entity. It has to be “really” p2p, some peers will be happy to share data with customs, other will be happy just not to have everything on phone and emails. Maybe multiple networks will come out, pretty hyped about it 😂