# Background The NUTS Technology Platform is designed to enable the issuance of non-standardized financial contracts traded through a peer-to-peer network. At the early stage, NUTS Foundation will serve two distinctive roles in the project: * NUTS Foundation: A non-profit organization that focuses on enabling a decentralized financial system by building open technology to support Financial Service Providers (FSPs) to underwrite and manage financial instruments on the blockchain; * ACoconut: A Financial Service Provider that underwrites financial instruments using the development toolkits and NUTS Technology Platform developed by NUTS Foundation. ACoconut is a specialized FSP focused on servicing Blockchain Foundations by integrating traditional corporate financial management strategies into smart contracts. The initial development toolkit will consist of financial instrument templates and instrument underwriting guidelines. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.nuts.finance/nuts-docs-v1/background.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.