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obolos is compliance infrastructure for tokenized equity, enabling companies, funds, and institutions enforce securities rules directly on-chain at the share level.
We make compliance programmable and embedded on the equity instrument itself, so founders, shareholders, and institutions work from the same source of truth, without the duplicated costs, and friction of today's fragmented systems.
The act of Incorporation, like every beginning, has a messy start.
There’s a myriad of tooling and platforms, charging a subscription fee for a subset of the tools one might need as they grow. Should a certain degree of success be achieved Founders have to work with: option contracts, milestone-based equity compensation and fundraising instruments over — often — multiple jurisdictions.
Employees have to work with complicated options contracts outlining their rights and obligations, that they have no time or resources to price in.
Shareholders, regardless the scale of their operations, end up with a disproportionate compliance burden that burns away time and resources.
Scale this process up to Legal firms, M&A advisors, Brokers and Investment Banks, and the total time spent on a deal, reconciling ledgers and KYC attestations becomes a big part of the deal itself.
Larger institutions spend billions on compliance, independently — about $72.9m each per year on AML/KYC (Fenergo, 2025). (sources here)
No shared ledger exists for $14.9T of private assets, thus every participant maintains their own version of the record. Clean hand-off for public offerings requires reconciling all of the shares and transfers.
obolos enables a world where equity agreements enforce themselves. Where ownership is verifiable, not promised. Where compliance is verified once, and trusted by all.
We envision:
Founders managing equity in one tool from day one until they go public. Investors scaling their funds, with real-time transparency and not spending their time managing documents. Employees actively being informed of their obligations and rewards. Legal firms plugged into a shared compliance layer instead of rebuilding it from scratch for every deal.
The cost of compliance, today measured in the billions, being as low as the marginal cost of a cryptographic proof. Companies stop paying to prove what they already know. And start spending that time building.