The Untapped Potential of Security Tokens

At Upside, we hear questions like these all the time. How do I safely launch a token? How do I build a token that avoids regulatory uncertainty? How do I get help with my tokenomics, capital flow diagrams, and whitepaper?

Beyond clear regulatory rule making, the major institutional upgrade is to adopt the actual vision of Web3 - not the fake scammer version which pummels the industry every few months in a new form.

An Investment DAO is a digital investment entity that works to raise and deploy investment capital for the benefit of a community or group of investors

Security Tokens are cementing their place in the financial industry as a programmable vehicle for investment in any asset that already has value, like real estate ...

Uniquely, compared with other types of tokens, Governance Tokens may actually take many forms. There are security tokens, utility tokens, and ...

LP Tokens are a reward mechanism to help facilitate transactions between other different types of currencies.

Organizations from all types of markets and communities are looking to tokens as a way to deploy new types of businesses and projects.

In 2021, the wide-reaching potential of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) captured the attention of cryptoworld, as it produced abundant intellectual properties in the modern creator economy

We trace along the approach at Upside to building these organizations by gaining an understanding of the features required to build a minimum viable community

The technologies that are used to represent organizations necessarily shape the types of risks and opportunities present; key to understanding the risks and opportunities is...

Understanding the foundational, conceptual history of DAOs is critical to understanding their potential. Marshall McLuhan famously coined the phrase...

History has shown that the development of new technologies for rulemaking enables new business models. From the Code of Hammurabi and Stone contracts, to...

Created by the anonymous duo of Suum Cuique Labs, Hashmasks started its conception in late 2019.

The rise of a Web3 accelerator and why they transitioned to the DAO format to benefit their cohorts and investors.

Created to provide a new decentralized infrastructure for finance that is community-driven, Olympus DAO was quick to rise, and just as quick to fall...

When Sotheby’s announced in September about the sale of the original printed U.S. Constitution, nothing seemed out of the ordinary; instead, it hit headlines when ConstitutionDAO created a buzz on this auction.

Imagine an organization formed by strangers and run without C-Staff, executive board or hierarchy!

The global freelance economy is thriving but legacy payment infrastructure has not kept pace. Freelancing is the future of work. Every year growing numbers embrace the office-optional world.

After a few years of operation Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and hundreds of other blockchain based cryptocurrencies have a collective market cap equivalent to billions of dollars. But who benefits and how can we use blockchains to progress people centered values?

The building blocks of portable reputation are blockchains, decentralized identities, and digitally signed claims. Systems built from these enable leaps in reputation reusability.

In the current internet ecosystem, we must outsource trust and ownership services to centralized operators. That requirement is slowly becoming destabilized...