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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Pre-seed · Use case 02

Keep your structure clean while you move fast.

Preserve a clean operating perimeter while the participation layer carries the early community, the early incentives, and the early story.

Market narrative

Where the market actually is.

The fastest teams at pre-seed sometimes end up with the messiest structure by seed. A pile of side agreements, three chat channels that turned into commitments, and a cap table that accumulated noise during the first six months of product-market fit hunting. Each of those looks small in isolation. Together they slow every institutional conversation afterwards.

Legacy token logic

What usually breaks.

Legacy token logic encourages speed by collapsing everything into one place. The operating company doubles as the ecosystem host, the cap table doubles as the participation record, and the founder doubles as compliance. It works until a serious counterparty asks a simple question and the answers do not line up.

The ERC-S migration

Upgrade the architecture. Keep the roadmap.

ERC-S keeps the operating company untouched and routes every ecosystem interaction through a separate, typed participation layer. Speed stays the same. The cap table does not grow sideways. When a seed-stage fund walks in, the structure is already one they recognise, and the conversation starts further along than it usually does.

Deep dive

Why clean structure is cheaper at pre-seed than at seed

Cleaning structure later costs more than keeping it clean from the start. Unwinding informal commitments, reassigning rights, and reclassifying holders at seed consumes legal time, founder attention, and trust. All three are expensive during a raise.

An ERC-S participation layer removes the need to clean up later. Commitments are typed, recognition is on chain, and the operating company keeps a single clean perimeter that reads the same way at seed, series A, and beyond.

01Typed participation layer separate from the cap table
02Informal commitments routed into a structured record
03Operating company keeps a single perimeter end to end
04Compliance surface owned by one entity, not three

Roadmap note

Moving fast is still the point. ERC-S does not slow anything down. It simply keeps the fast decisions from turning into structural debt.

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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Pre-seed · Use case 01

Build a market narrative before the market notices you.

Pre-seed teams rarely fail because of vision. They fail because signal is weak. Tokenisation creates a clear front door for contributors, partners, and future supporters while the company is still early.

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