PAID launches US Accredited Investor Rail and is in talks with SEC Crypto Task Force about fully entering the US market

PAID is a blockchain based private-market platform where startups raise capital through equity sales and token launches. To date, it has channeled US$35 million into 110 early-stage innovators. Effective Aug 12, 2025, the U.S. Accredited Investor Rail is live, giving qualified Americans access to curated PAID equity participation deals and select utility-token rounds that were previously limited to non-U.S. investors.

SEC and White House: Where We Stand

In mid-April 2025, MV Global’s Group CEO Lee Pickavance flew to Washington for meetings at the White House, Senate offices, and with leading policy groups, an itinerary recapped in MV’s Medium post. The trip set the stage for a formal SEC Crypto Task Force meeting on 28 April 2025, where Lee Pickavance, Kyle Chassé, and General Counsel Artur Granicki discussed issues facing crypto businesses in the U.S., particularly how innovation and, ideally, regulations could move toward a retail-friendly, on-chain capital formation model in the near future.

Since that session, PAID has stayed in contact with federal policy staff, including PWG (President’s Working Group) leadership, to share product learnings.

My ambition is to bring PAID back to the U.S. so that everyday investors can finally get in on early-stage opportunities that used to be off-limits. Instead of buying shares only after a company is already worth billions on secondary markets like Robinhood, Americans could participate in PAID equity deals and become part of the investment at the ground floor of exciting, high-growth industries that were once gated and available only to those with inside connections.

Kyle Chassé, Founder, PAID, speaking on Nasdaq TradeTalks live from the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square (July 1 2025)

Policy Support Is Growing

Congress and U.S. agencies have started to clear a compliant path for Web3 capital formation:

• GENIUS Act is now law (July 2025), creating the first federal framework for payment stablecoins and clarifying issuer licensing, reserves, and oversight.
• The White House President’s Working Group (PWG) published a July 30, 2025 roadmap urging Congress to enact market‑structure legislation (building on “CLARITY”) and directing agencies to implement GENIUS.
• Market‑structure legislation: House previously passed FIT21 (May 2024); in 2025, committees released a discussion draft building on that framework (often referenced alongside the CLARITY package). Status continues to evolve.
• Accredited‑Investor modernization: A bipartisan House bill to expand the accredited‑investor definition via a knowledge‑based pathway was reintroduced in May 2025 (H.R. 3394, “Fair Investment Opportunities for Professional Experts Act”).

Platform Evolution at a Glance

PAID has evolved from a pure blockchain-based token offerings launchpad into a hybrid investment platform that supports equity, token, and hybrid rounds in one seamless flow. Now in its fifth year, the platform has deployed over US$35 million into early-stage rounds, grown a global investor base of more than 100,000, and delivered over US$500 million in peak value back to its community. The next wave of deals is already lining up across frontier verticals such as AI, robotics, defense, frontier tech, Web3 Infra, cybersecurity, and more.

First Deal on Deck — Bluwhale (AI × Web3 Infra)

PAID’s first hybrid raise launches our new three-path investment model, giving investors the choice of equity-only, token-only, or hybrid deals, all from the same wallet.

In Bluwhale’s hybrid round, investors received equity in the company plus a bonus 1:1 BLUAI token airdrop (12-month cliff, 36-month vesting). The equity is priced at a US$30M FDV, a 70% discount to its ongoing US$100M round, and the token side has a Tier-1 CEX listing secured for Q3 2025.

How the carry works

In traditional equity deals, carry fees average 20%, one-fifth of potential profits going to the deal manager. PAID offers tier-based carry fees that reward committed members:

• Higher staking tiers mean lower carry.
• Diamond stakers enjoy 0% carry across all deals.
• Stake once to unlock benefits platform-wide (must hold until exit).

Launch promo: 0% carry for all participants in the Bluwhale deal, no staking required.

What is Bluwhale?

Bluwhale runs Web3’s first two-sided intelligence marketplace, fixing the broken data economy by letting companies target verified, active users across 37 chains, while users earn tokens for contributing data privately from their devices.

Already serving 4,780 paying enterprise clients, Bluwhale has 3.5M wallets onboarded, 1.5M MAU, and US$1.7M in 2024 revenue. Its US$100M round is backed by SBI Holdings, Decima Fund (Animoca, Gumi, MZ Crypto), Sui Foundation, Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly), Charles Huang (Guitar Hero), and Jack McCauley (Oculus).

Through PAID, investors can still join this round at a 70% discount to its current valuation, with an added 1:1 BLUAI token airdrop. Visit the Bluwhale project page for company information and instructions on how to participate in the raise.

At exit

PAID manages the process for all participants, with proceeds sent directly to their wallets.

This is the first step in PAID’s expanded offering, more equity-only, token-only, and hybrid deals to come, all with transparent fees, strong staking rewards, and fully managed exits.

Registration for the Bluwhale deal opened to verified U.S. accredited investors on 12 August 2025.

U.S. accredited investors: register at https://www.paidnetwork.com, create an account, and complete KYC. When you register interest in a deal, tick the “I am an accredited investor” box.

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