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Legal Lego: Why and how to stack entities on OtoCo

Legal Lego: Why and how to stack entities on OtoCo

When you build or invest, it's unlikely (and not very wise...) to do things in your own name. Most likely, you'll do stuff from an entity, and even more likely from a number of entities. Such entities are typically stacked, with one owning the other. In

Kick off the year with an onchain offshore LLC in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Kick off the year with an onchain offshore LLC in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

If you are looking to diversify away from the U.S. whilst maintaining the flexibility of the U.S. Limited Liability Company structure, you can now instantly form a Marshall Islands LLC onchain using OtoCo's smart contracts. Simply connect your wallet and for the equivalent of only US$

Part III - OtoCo's governance: imagining a new model

Part III - OtoCo's governance: imagining a new model

In this final part of the Otonomist OtoCo Special, we share how the project is currently governed and where we want to go from here Let’s admit it: Governance is messy. Not just in Web 3 (just watch Succession!). Coin voting, even if attainable, is rarely desirable. Tokenholder participation

Part II - What we plan to build over the next 18 months

Part II - What we plan to build over the next 18 months

In this part, we share a summary of our roadmap up until around summer 2025, breaking it down into what jurisdictions and what functionality we plan to add. The way we think about our roadmap is along 3 axes: The X axis for the product (jurisdiction), the Y axis for

Part I - Smart contracts as the natural evolution of analog contracts: The case for legal equivalence between offchain companies and blockchain-native organizations

Part I - Smart contracts as the natural evolution of analog contracts: The case for legal equivalence between offchain companies and blockchain-native organizations

In this second post, we examine how onchain companies can achieve legal equivalence with offchain registered ones. Companies are an invention, and as inventions go, they arguably rank equally with the printing press, the shipping container, and the micro-processor in how they impacted human progress. The key breakthrough lies in

Oh B.O.I., oh B.O.I.

Oh B.O.I., oh B.O.I.

FinCEN's new Beneficial Ownership Information database for U.S. companies is an unprecedented dragnet of personally identifiable information, ensnaring millions of individuals who own U.S. companies. On 1 January 2024, new rules will kick in that implement the provisions of the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)1

The Swiss Foundation is dead. Long live the Swiss Association - now onchain on OtoCo!

The Swiss Foundation is dead. Long live the Swiss Association - now onchain on OtoCo!

Swiss Associations are widely used as shared platforms by global service providers. OtoCo now lets users instantly create a Swiss Association natively on blockchain and decentralize its governance. A new legal lego brick OtoCo is very happy to introduce the blockchain-native Swiss Association, its first onchain limited liability entity outside