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Unlike Swiss Rail, this month’s Swiss Special of The Otonomist arrives with a slight delay, largely because we’ve had splendid weather in April and have been mostly outdoors… We hopefully made it up with two in-depth pieces on Swiss entities, and an update on new OtoCo features released

In this premium contribution, we look at the sequence of steps when incorporating a Swiss company with paid-up capital in crypto rather than fiat.

Many crypto projects have set up Swiss Foundations, including Ethereum itself. Many have come to rue it: the governance restrictions, local requirements and overall expense may not outweigh the perceived prestige. In this piece, we examine if the Swiss Verein (Association) could be a viable alternative for those blockchain projects

As we’re gearing up towards adding paid plug-ins to OtoCo entities, such as EINs and bank account openings, we first had to crack payments in an elegant way. We wanted to give users the choice between crypto and fiat, since fiat may still be useful for smaller amounts and

Welcome to the March Wyoming Special of The Otonomist. Best known for its national parks, crypto cognoscenti also know Wyoming for its frontier blockchain laws and emerging digital asset infrastructure. In this issue, we talk about why a trust in Wyoming works particularly well if you’re based outside the

A Wyoming trust goes a step beyond more established trust jurisdictions by allowing you to settle a trust anonymously and protect your assets without losing control. This post explains how.

In this February Otonomist, we unveil the idea of launch pools as a new way to raise funds from the community. For our paying users, we prepared a manual on how to convert a US LLC into a private crypto investment fund. We also scheduled a first webinar on how

We are inundated with requests from clients who want to start a fund to invest in crypto assets. Here's a manual for US clients including a clause-by-clause dissection of the legal documents.

Launch pools have the potential to turn capital formation on its head by letting the community stake in a refundable pool which turns into committed capital once a project passes a vote. Here's how.