This post shares an absolute beginner's experience of on-ramping from fiat to crypto, showing that crypto is still quite bewildering to many who are new to the space.

Why the new economy needs programmable companies constituted by code to widen ownership and democratize participation. About two years ago, OtoCo started working on a vision shared by many in the Web3 community: of a company constituted by code that lives entirely onchain. The spark was a tweet by Avichal

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

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

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.1 Tokenholder

On this last day of October, we unveil a fiat offramp plug-in for OtoCo users who often do not have banking access, talk about FinCEN's new beneficial ownership regime which is set to kick in on 1 January 2024, and fix some dates in the calendar. Keep the

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.

This month's issue of The Otonomist is all about how we iterated on ICOs in a legit way for Otonomos' own funding round, and its terms and structure.

In this first part, we start out asking ourselves how God would have legitimately reiterated on ICOs and illustrate how our tech solution aims to meet the 10 requirements we identified.