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 01

Build a market narrative before the market notices you.

Create a clear front door for contributors, partners, and future supporters while the company is still early.

Market narrative

Where the market actually is.

Pre-seed companies rarely lose because of the idea. They lose because the idea never builds a recognisable shape in the market. The people who might have helped never had a clean way to opt in, and by the time the company is ready to ask, the window for low-cost belief has already closed.

Legacy token logic

What usually breaks.

Legacy token logic treats market narrative as an afterthought. A token launch is scheduled for later, after the product, after the round, after the team is complete. In the meantime the only narrative surface available is whatever fits on a landing page. It does the job for a week and then it stops working.

The ERC-S migration

Upgrade the architecture. Keep the roadmap.

ERC-S turns market narrative into a primitive you can start using on day one. Participation, recognition, and contribution become routable events from the very first contributor, without committing to a full token launch. The story is not a landing page any more. It is a live participation layer with real participants, recognised in a format you can point at.

Deep dive

How a pre-seed narrative compounds under ERC-S

The first ten participants anchor the story. Their activity is public, their recognition is structured, and the next ten join a record that already exists. The company does not have to explain itself from zero every time a new counterparty appears.

Narrative compounds only if the record is tamper-resistant. An append-only participation log is harder to dispute than a screenshot of chat activity, which means it travels with you into your seed raise and keeps its weight under diligence.

01Structured contribution events from the first participant onward
02Append-only log that future counterparties can reference directly
03Recognition that does not require a full token launch up front
04Clear demarcation between narrative artefacts and equity

Roadmap note

The product roadmap stays the same. The difference is that the story around the roadmap is already compounding, so every product release lands with context that already exists.

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 02

Keep your structure clean while you move fast.

Street helps founders avoid messy setups that look good for a month and create problems for years. The operating company stays clean, while participation is handled in a separate, clearly defined layer.

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