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About Tokensoft
Tokensoft provides regulated issuance and distribution infrastructure for token issuers, spanning compliance, fundraising, vesting and foundation administration. Its core is ERC-1404, co-authored in 2018, which puts transfer restrictions inside the token contract so every transfer checks whitelist and jurisdiction eligibility before executing, meeting US securities limits on resale. The platform chains KYC/KYB, accredited-investor checks, subscription signing and an on-chain cap table into one flow, supporting Reg D, Reg A+, S-1 and non-US offerings, with vesting contracts unlocking on time or price conditions, and cap tables exportable to transfer agents and auditors.
It serves offerings that must answer to a regulator rather than permissionless sales, with clients drawn from layer-one foundations, infrastructure projects and licensed institutions; Avalanche, The Graph and Arbitrum have run rounds through it. The Knox wallet handles custody with multisig and offline signing, distribution can settle on a different chain from the raise, and the issuer and legal documents stay with the client.
Tokensoft was founded in 2017 as a fair-launch platform for Web3 projects and communities, with regulatory compliance at its core. It early participated in launches such as Tezos, Avalanche and The Graph, processing over $1.5 billion and 150k investors.
Long-term milestones: Starting in 2019, Tokensoft promoted the ERC-1404 standard for compliant security tokens; its technology underpinned the SEC's first two registered digital asset securities offerings—Arca U.S. Treasury Fund (the first tokenized closed-end fund) and INX Ltd's blockchain IPO. Tokensoft later received SEC approval to operate transfer agent TTA, allowing blockchain transactions to directly serve as the record of truth for securities, establishing a paradigm for on-chain compliance infrastructure.
In 2022-2023, Tokensoft released V2 and Tokensoft Distribution, deploying token issuance and distribution smart contracts on Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon and other EVM chains, with customizable vesting, governance voting and cross-border compliance, marking its evolution from point tools to multi-chain composable Web3 issuance primitives.
On April 10, 2026, Tokensoft published six product papers splitting issuance, custody, transfer agency and compliance into separately purchasable modules: ERC-1404 enforces transfer restrictions at the protocol layer, KYC handles 80,000 investors an hour and peak fundraising throughput reaches USD 10 million an hour.
Since 2017, Tokensoft has run more than 100 institutional issuances raising over USD 1 billion, with clients including Avalanche, The Graph, Arbitrum, Tezos and Synthetix, and two SEC-registered offerings on record, including the first registered security token IPO. An August 2026 third-party review still places its strength in compliance and fundraising, with full-lifecycle RWA management more limited.
Tokensoft standardises transfer agency and onchain cap tables, extends into tokenised funds and private credit, and lets brokers and funds run issuance white-label.
Mason Borda — Co-founder & CEO; formerly at BitGo, built the first commercially viable Ethereum custody solution in 2016 and invented the ERC-1404 security token standard.
James Poole — Co-founder & CTO; over a decade building security software at Symantec, RSA Security and others.
Tokensoft is a broker-dealer registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Its subsidiary Tokensoft Transfer Agent is registered as a transfer agent, maintaining ownership records for tokenised securities.