July 4 2025 – On a mission to rebuild trust and unlock startup capital in crypto, Decent Labs has unveiled a new tokenization platform purpose-built for U.S. founders. By combining legal and smart contract infrastructure, the platform offers a compliant path for American startups to launch tokens — restoring investor confidence and making token-based fundraising accessible, transparent, and safe.
For years, U.S. token launches have been stifled by regulatory uncertainty, forcing founders offshore and eroding public trust. High legal risk, opaque structures, and lack of investor protections made tokenization inaccessible for most startups.
Now, shifting policy — including the SEC’s proposed Safe Harbor and the CLARITY Act — is opening the door to a compliant, mainstream U.S. token market. At the same time, industry leaders are establishing standards like the Token Transparency Framework (TTF) to boost investor confidence.
Built on these developments, Decent Labs is launching a platform to help founders compliantly raise through token launches. By automating both TTF alignment and expected disclosure requirements, Decent makes it safe and practical to tokenize U.S. startups again.
Decent automates compliance from the bottom up, through adherence to the Token Transparency Framework, and from the top down, through expected regulatory requirements, at scale. It aims to create a compliant US ICO market that’s safer for everyone involved by helping founders navigate the regulatory landscape and helping investors protect their investments.
Decent is a US-based crypto company building a tokenization platform that enables US-based companies to launch tokens compliantly in order to raise capital, offer ownership to customers, and benefit from the now vast ecosystem of DeFI protocols.
Their goal is to make tokenization available to every American startup and entrepreneur as a fundraising vehicle. By making crypto launches accessible for founders and unruggable for investors through better tokenization practices that prioritize transparency and investor protections, the token launch market becomes a safe and sustainable pathway to adoption.
And today, on July 4th, they’ve announced a new set of legal and smart contracts that make token launches safer for both founders and their investors:
The Decent Contract for Network Tokens (“The DCNT”) is a new investment standard that unifies legal and smart contracts to create investor protections. The specifications are configurable, so investors and founders can design funding release milestones that work best for their specific arrangements, and investors can be granted limited governance rights even before TGE to build resilience, tax optimization, and flexibility.
Where the SAFE made it safe, tax efficient, and resilient to change to invest in early stage startups, the DCNT is designed to do the same for investing in early stage tokens. It bridges the gap between current investing standards like the SAFE + Token Warrant model or SAFT, and onchain assets. By automating compliance and securing assets with onchain as well as legal contracts, the DCNT creates a standard structure for investing in tokens that are safe enough to be delivered at scale in American markets.
By extending the functionality of the SAFE + Token Warrant with onchain smart contracts, the DCNT prioritizes token value and creates onchain investor protections, providing a safe and efficient way to invest in web3.
Tokens offer several benefits to founders, even of non-crypto startups: They lower the barrier to entry to fundraising, engage communities through ownership, and create liquid markets founders and investors can use to safely exit without crippling or selling a company. This liquidity makes smaller, previously uninvestable markets more viable, as the company doesn’t have to go public or get acquired for investors to take profits. They also open the door to decentralization where relevant, and create transparency by default as tokenized operations live onchain.
With its software platform and the DCNT, Decent is building the tools needed to make tokenization viable and compliant for US companies. As regulations like the Market Structures Act and structures like the DUNA create legal clarity for tokenized companies in the US, Decent makes compliance with the evolving regulatory requirements safer for founders and investors alike. Their conviction is that as this safe harbor decreases incentive to offshore and their tools decrease cost to launch and operate tokenized startups in the US, the next wave of crypto will be “made in the USA” in ways that are transparent, safe, and accountable to legal structures.
