What is a community capital market?
A regulated market where a real business raises equity from the people who already believe in it — its customers, supporters, members — and those people own real, registered equity in their own name. BlockMaze is the first.
The three markets
Two markets kept you out. The third one lets you in.
The private market: founders and funds. Invite only.
Venture capital and private equity buy companies early, at the best prices, and the door is shut to everyone who isn’t invited.
The public market: companies already huge. Years away.
By the time a company lists on an exchange, the growth that made it valuable has been captured by the people who got in first.
How a raise works
Five steps, the same every time.
A business applies
A club, a brand, a fund, a lender. It is vetted: identity, ownership, accounts, documents, structure.
The regulated entity structures it
Registered equity or units, rights in writing, custody with a regulated custodian, eligibility by country.
The community subscribes
From an offering page with the story, the numbers, the documents, a public Q&A and a live session with the founder.
Owners go on the register
Each owner’s name is recorded. Dividends, votes and information rights follow the documents.
It lists and trades
After the raise closes, what was issued lists on Dealing, the ecosystem’s exchange, where owners can buy and sell.
What you own
Registered equity. Not a token, a SAFE or a note.
Registered equity or units in your name, rights in writing, held with a regulated custodian, tradable on Dealing.
Perks and access. Usually no claim on the company, no register, no custodian.
A promise of shares later, if a priced round happens. Common on crowdfunding sites.
Shares held by the platform on your behalf. Your name is on their list, not the company’s register.
A product or a thank-you. No ownership.
Why now
The plumbing was the problem.
Spending went global decades ago: you can buy from anyone, anywhere, in seconds. Ownership didn’t. The pipes that let a person own a piece of a business were built for exchanges and funds, and they run one way. Customer of everything, owner of nothing.
Blockchains promised to fix this and mostly built casinos instead. A chain can record a claim permanently, but it can’t tell a true claim from a false one. That is the Accountability Gap, and it is why tokens that call themselves shares so often aren’t.
A community capital market closes the gap by putting the law back in. A token needs a ledger. Ownership needs law. A market needs accountability. BlockMaze is a regulated chain where every participant is verified, a regulated entity vets and structures every offering, and a regulated exchange trades what was issued.
Who it’s for
Four kinds of people.
FAQ
What people ask first.
No. Crowdfunding sites mostly give you a note, a SAFE or a nominee holding, in one country. Here you own registered equity in your own name, structured by a regulated entity, with a regulated secondary market, and investors come from the EU, the GCC and India.
No. BlockMaze is a regulated chain used as the register and settlement layer. What you own is equity or units in a real business; the token is the register entry, not the asset.
BlockMaze’s regulated entity, authorised by the Hellenic Capital Market Commission in Greece: identity, ownership, accounts, documents and structure, before listing and while live.
Yes. Early-stage businesses can fail, and a new listing can be hard to sell. Every offering carries a plain-language risk section.
After the raise closes and the equity lists on Dealing. There may be few buyers at the price you want, especially early.
It depends on your country of residence. You see what you can invest in once you register and verify.
