Mason Borda
Co-Founder, CEO
Mason started his career at technology companies such as Boeing, SSL, and Broadcom. Mason entered the digital asset space in 2013, designing and building the infrastructure for a dollar-based blockchain. In 2016, he built the first commercially viable custody solution on the Ethereum network. In 2017, he started Tokensoft to bring a higher level of scalability, cybersecurity and compliance to token launches.Now, Mason guides the Tokensoft team in business strategy, business development and market planning.
James Poole
Co-Founder
James spent a decade building security software for companies like Symantec, Veritas and RSA Security. While at RSA James managed the engineering team for a $50 million product line designed to secure enterprise servers. In 2014 James entered the digital asset space designing tax reporting software and real-time payments infrastructure. James holds a BS in Software Engineering and an MBA. In his free time, James can be found cycling along the California coast.
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Tokensoft through the years
July 2017
Tokensoft was founded by Mason Borda and James Poole in Palo Alto, CA with the vision of helping projects bring tokens with the highest level of scalability, cybersecurity and compliance.
September 2017
Launched two customers in a single day, starting Tokensoft off with a revenue stream that would help bootstrap operations.
With the goal of better protecting our customers we prototyped and built the first cold-storage multi-signature wallet for Ethereum.
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June 2018
In May of 2018, Tokensoft was contacted by Tezos to help run compliance checks on the 30,000+ user base that participated in a purchase of tokens. Within three weeks Tokensoft launch a bespoke solution to help investors claim their tokens.
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July 2018
Tokensoft closed a seed round one year after inception, led by Base10 and Headline, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Avon Ventures.
August 2018
We launched our airdrop product with Handshake in 2018 as they concluded a fundraise from A16Z Crypto, Founders Fund and Polychain Capital.
September 2018
We developed and launched ERC-1404 to enable tokens backed by real world assets.
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December 2018
Tokensoft acquired a stake in a regulated broker dealer with the goal of providing additional services to its customers.
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December 2019
Tokensoft setup a transfer agent to help power SEC-Registered tokens get to market.
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January 2020
We launched Tokensoft investment accounts to enable the self-custody and transfer of SEC registered tokens.
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May 2020
Tokensoft partnered with Seba to launch tokenization services and to later tokenize the SEBA series B equity.
July 2020
We powered the Avalanche token sale which culminated in a $42M fundraise where we processed over $10M per hour without taking custody of funds
Learn More >We brought the world’s first 40 Act Fund on the Ethereum blockchain to market.
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August 2020
We powered the first IPO on the Ethereum blockchain with INX. It went on to raise $85M in total using the Tokensoft technology stack.
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November 2021
A platform upgrade enabled us to scale up the number of token sales we were able to launch in a day. Monday of Thanksgiving week, we launched four customers in a single day.
January 2022
We began development of a Web3-based platform to adopt a lean, modern technology stack.
July 2022
To better serve Web3 customers, we launched Tokensoft V2 with native support on multiple blockchains.
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