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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Seed · Use case 01

Use tokenisation to extend what early traction can do.

Turn product traction into ecosystem traction while you still have room to shape the market around it.

Market narrative

Where the market actually is.

At seed, the company has proof. Numbers are real, a product is shipping, and a small cohort of users actually shows up every week. What often does not exist yet is a market layer that can absorb that proof into a broader story. Product traction is internal. Market traction is public. The gap between the two is usually what defines the next round.

Legacy token logic

What usually breaks.

Legacy token logic treats tokenisation as a marketing event. Pick a date, run a campaign, and hope the token finds a venue. That model collapses the product story into the token story, which means every speed bump in one becomes a crisis in the other. Seed companies cannot afford that correlation.

The ERC-S migration

Upgrade the architecture. Keep the roadmap.

ERC-S keeps product and participation on separate clocks. Product ships on its roadmap. Participation flows through a sanctioned layer that amplifies product milestones without being bound to them. A product release is recognised in the participation layer the day it ships. A product delay does not tank the ecosystem conversation.

Deep dive

How seed traction converts into ecosystem traction

Ecosystem traction is recurring. A user who shows up once is not traction. A participant who shows up for three product releases in a row is. ERC-S makes that pattern visible, and visibility is what turns a user base into an ecosystem.

Traction also needs to be shareable with the next round. An investor pattern-matching on seed to series A progression wants to see not only that users are there, but that a participation layer is already pulling them into something durable.

01Product and participation on independent release clocks
02Recurring participation events recognised structurally
03Ecosystem metrics that map to fundraising diligence categories
04Single participation record that compounds across rounds

Roadmap note

The roadmap sets the pace. The participation layer picks up the signal the roadmap produces and makes sure the market hears it.

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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Seed · Use case 02

Align launch strategy with long-term financing.

Street helps teams launch in a way that still looks disciplined under diligence. The participation layer is designed to support growth without creating ownership confusion later.

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