TL;DR:
UPGRADE is building the onchain NASDAQ for private innovation markets.
Starting with biotech, we are lowering investment barriers, reducing dilution, and enabling earlier liquidity by tokenizing individual drug programs within biotech companies.
What NASDAQ did for paper-based equity trading, UPGRADE will do for today's fragmented innovation markets.
UPGRADE brings capital market infrastructure onchain, beginning with the biotech sector. By tokenizing drug programs, we make traditionally illiquid, high-barrier biotech investments accessible, fractional, and liquid. Our platform enables:
- Fair onchain fundraising via compliant launchpad auctions
- KYC-gated transferability using ERC-3643 (T-REX)
- Automatic liquidity provisioning and protocol-owned liquidity through our custom DEX
- A future DeFi layer for lending, borrowing, and ETF-style biotech baskets
UPGRADE bridges DeSci, DeFi, and TradFi, creating a unified, regulated market for private innovation assets.
Our team combines DeSci and DeFi leadership with deep Wall Street and biotech investment banking expertise.
- Founders and contributors from SEI / Sapien Capital, VitaDAO, karpatkey
- Ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Wall Street biotech IB professionals
- TradFi and biotech founders from Trade.com and Jade Cardiometabolic
Together, we are building the financial rails for the next generation of innovation markets.
- Round: $2M SAFE with token side-letter.
- Valuation: $20M pre-money.
| Description | Link |
|---|---|
| 🧠 UPGRADE Vision | shorturl.at/3BHKu |
| 🌐 Website (beta) | upgrade.finance |
| 🎮 Demo – Biotech company user flow | shorturl.at/LLhTN |
| 🎮 Demo – Investor user flow | shorturl.at/t8KQx |
| 💼 Deck | shorturl.at/nUOnO |
The UPGRADE protocol is composed of:
- BioCo Launchpad – Compliant tokenized fundraising via fair batch auctions
- Company Vault – Protocol-owned liquidity, milestone fund releases, buybacks, royalties.
- Compliant Token – ERC-3643 (T-REX) compliant token standard with identity gating.
- DEX (UpDEX) – Custom AMM seeded directly from Launchpad proceeds
- Liquidity Market (Future) – Morpho-style borrowing and lending for biotech tokens.
Each fundraising event deploys a full set of composable contracts from a Factory, integrating compliance, tokenomics, and liquidity management at protocol level.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Smart Contracts | Solidity (Foundry) |
| Frontend | React + Chakra UI |
| API | GraphQL + Apollo |
| Database | Prisma + PostgreSQL |
| Compliance | ERC-3643 / T-REX standard |
| AMM | Permissioned Decentralized exchange with POL (UpDEX) |
| ETF tokens | ERC-4626 (pending) |
Detailed developer and product documentation will be published soon.
In the meantime, refer to:
Contributions from the open-source and DeSci communities are welcome.
However at this stage we only work with contractors and employees. If you want to get involved DM @sideris!
Note: UPGRADE’s core contracts and launchpad are under active audit and closed testing.
Public testnet deployment will be announced soon.
UPGRADE is a technology platform. Nothing herein constitutes financial advice or a solicitation to invest.
All fundraising and token issuance are conducted under applicable jurisdictional compliance standards.