Manawa

01 / THE SETUP

Private businesses need capital, and individual investors rarely get a clear way in.

1. Situation

   Growing private businesses raise money long before they are anywhere near a stock exchange.

2. Complication

   For an individual investor, those rounds are hard to find, hard to compare and hard to prove you own a part of.

3. Question

   How does an individual take a defined stake in a real business and keep a verifiable record of it?

4. Answer

   A platform that presents each round with its size and share on offer, verifies the investor, and records participation onchain.

02 / THE PROBLEM

Access, clarity and proof of ownership all fail at the same time.

1. 01

   Rounds are hard to reach.

   Early rounds are usually offered through personal networks, not through a place an investor can browse.

2. 02

   Terms are hard to read.

   Round size, share on offer and status are rarely stated side by side in plain language.

3. 03

   Ownership is hard to show.

   After paying, an investor is typically left with paperwork rather than a record they can check independently.

03 / HOW IT WORKS

Three steps from reading a round to holding a record of it.

1. 01

   Sign in

   The investor signs in with email or an existing wallet; a wallet is created for those who do not have one.

2. 02

   Verify

   Identity is checked before any payment is accepted, and documents are stored in the EU.

3. 03

   Participate

   The investor pays for a defined share, and the payment is reconciled against a finalised transaction on Base.

05 / WHERE IT STANDS

The platform is being built, and payments open only after legal sign-off.

• Sign-in, embedded wallets and external wallet connection are built on Privy and Base.
• Identity verification is required before payment; documents are stored in an EU-only bucket.
• Payments stay switched off in every environment until a written legal opinion confirms the offering regime.

06 / TECHNOLOGY AND TRUST

Sign-in, wallets and settlement run on established infrastructure.

• Privy Sign-in and embedded wallets
• MetaMask External wallet
• Coinbase Wallet External wallet
• WalletConnect Wallet connection protocol
• Base Settlement network

08 / WHAT COULD GO WRONG

The risks that would stop the platform are regulatory, and each has a gate before money moves.

• The way shares are offered falls under a regime the platform is not authorised for.

  No payment is accepted until a written legal opinion confirms the regime and the steps it requires.

• Linking a person to a wallet exposes personal data.

  Data stays in the EU, a data protection impact assessment is done before launch, and every processor signs a DPA.

• An onchain payment is credited before it is final, or comes from a sanctioned address.

  Payments are reconciled only against finalised transfers, and every sender is screened before the stake is recorded.