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 02

Align launch strategy with long-term financing.

Launch in a way that still reads disciplined under diligence two rounds from now.

Market narrative

Where the market actually is.

Seed-stage companies usually make at least one decision during launch that their series A term sheet has to unwind. Ownership gets diluted by unclear token rights, governance gets ambiguous, or the cap table acquires a parallel structure that nobody can fully describe. Each of those costs two weeks of legal time later and usually costs real terms.

Legacy token logic

What usually breaks.

Legacy token logic optimises for launch velocity. Get the token out, get the price on a screen, and worry about structure afterwards. The problem is that a token trading on a public venue is much harder to restructure than one that never launched. The choices made in launch week become the choices series A investors have to live with.

The ERC-S migration

Upgrade the architecture. Keep the roadmap.

ERC-S assumes long-term financing from day one. The participation layer is designed so that launch mechanics never contaminate the cap table, ownership confusion cannot happen by accident, and every launch-time decision remains legible under series A diligence. The founder retains the same degrees of freedom after launch as before.

Deep dive

Why launch week decisions deserve financing-grade thinking

Launch decisions compound asymmetrically. A good decision shows up as continuity, invisibly. A bad decision shows up as a term-sheet edit. Most teams only learn which is which when the series A lead pulls up the participation record.

A disciplined launch reads the same from every angle. Community sees a coherent story. Product sees a clean release pipeline. Investors see a structure that does not need to be explained. That alignment is the point.

01Participation layer isolated from the cap table end to end
02Launch-time rights documented in diligence-grade language
03No parallel structures accumulated during the launch window
04Series A term sheet readable without a translation layer

Roadmap note

The launch plan still drives the calendar. ERC-S just makes sure nothing in launch week becomes a problem at series A.

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 01

Use tokenisation to extend what early traction can do.

At seed, the company has proof but still has room to shape the market around it. This is the best moment to turn product traction into ecosystem traction.

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