Are ERC-S tokens securities?

ERC-S tokens are designed with a focus on governance and utility, not as financial instruments or ownership interests.

Street is a standard for tokenized startup ecosystems. We work with founders from day zero to introduce structured, onchain participation layers around their companies that are designed with clear rules, transparency, and defined processes. This enables new forms of distribution, engagement, and credibility at scale.

How is this different from traditional crowdfunding and private equity?

Traditional private equity is gated - 10 year lockups, $1M minimums, insider only dealflow. Crowdfunding expands participation, but often without consistent standards. Street bridges this gap by introducing a structured, transparent participation layer around early stage companies.

Why would I list on Street?

Founders activate aligned participation, bootstrap distribution, and signal credibility from day one. Thousands of participants don't just engage with your ecosystem — they become contributors, users, and network nodes. It's coordination and adoption in a single move.

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Growth · Use case 02

Protect strategic optionality as complexity increases.

Keep the operating company clean while a parallel participation layer carries ecosystem complexity.

Market narrative

Where the market actually is.

Growth stage is when optionality quietly disappears. Each new commitment, each new partnership, each new informal arrangement slightly narrows the set of deals the company can still do. By the time an M&A conversation appears, optionality has leaked in a thousand places the founder cannot remember.

Legacy token logic

What usually breaks.

Legacy token logic concentrates complexity in the operating company. Ecosystem decisions bleed into corporate decisions, community commitments bleed into legal commitments, and the cap table becomes a catch-all. A potential acquirer reads the structure and reprices the opportunity by a double-digit percentage.

The ERC-S migration

Upgrade the architecture. Keep the roadmap.

ERC-S keeps the operating company clean by design. Ecosystem complexity lives in a typed participation layer that is cleanly separable from corporate structure. When a strategic opportunity appears, the founder can value the ecosystem and the company independently, because they are independent.

Deep dive

Why optionality is the real asset at growth stage

Optionality is the ability to say yes to the next opportunity without unwinding the last one. Growth-stage companies with compromised structure lose optionality a decision at a time, and usually only notice after they have already lost it.

Optionality also sets the ceiling on outcome size. A clean company can pursue any strategic path. A compromised company can only pursue the paths that fit its accumulated shape.

01Operating company perimeter kept intact from seed onwards
02Ecosystem complexity contained in the participation layer
03Strategic conversations valued against independent entities
04Governance history legible across participation and corporate surfaces

Roadmap note

The roadmap continues on schedule. Optionality is protected as a side effect of keeping the two perimeters separate.

Next step

Book a call with our team.

Thirty minutes with a Street operator. We walk through your current token architecture, the shape of your cap table, and the cleanest ERC-S path for your specific situation. No slides, no pitch, just a direct conversation.

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Growth · Use case 01

Move from ad-hoc demand to intentional structure.

Growth companies attract broader demand whether they plan for it or not. Tokenisation gives that demand a defined route, so participation supports long-term company strategy.

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