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Joseph Argiro

DeFi venture capital infrastructure platform enabling emerging managers and investor communities to raise, deploy, and manage capital onchain.

Fish Network is a blockchain-powered infrastructure for tokenized investment clubs, designed to make private market investing faster, fairer, and fully onchain. Built on institutional-grade L2 and custody infrastructure, Fish Network allows investors, founders, and emerging fund managers to coordinate capital through automated, transparent, and legally sound structures.

At its core, Fish Network introduces “Fish Schools”: compliant, tokenized investment clubs structured as Series LLCs. Each Fish School pools capital in stablecoins or ETH and operates through smart contracts that automate governance, compliance, and fund operations. Members earn FISH Points, an onchain reputation system that tracks participation, capital commitments, and community engagement. This model offers a scalable alternative to syndicates and traditional venture funds by reducing costs, increasing liquidity, and aligning incentives between investors and organizers.

For emerging managers and solo GPs, Fish Network serves as a fund-in-a-box, providing everything needed to launch and operate a compliant investment vehicle: from KYC/KYB onboarding and treasury management to voting mechanisms and transparent reporting. Managers can demonstrate their thesis, build investor trust, and scale toward institutional standards with a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional fund setups.

For founders, Fish Network functions as a next-generation crowdfunding platform. Startups can raise capital directly from curated investment clubs and communities without paying high upfront fees to intermediaries. The platform automates legal workflows, escrow, and investor verification, allowing founders to access capital globally while maintaining compliance and transparency.

Beyond startups, Fish Network extends into RWA tokenization through the fractionalization of assets like real estate, art, and private credit. By bridging blockchain infrastructure with traditional capital markets, the network enables liquidity, fractional ownership, and global participation in previously illiquid asset classes.

Use Cases

Private Market Liquidity

Fish Network introduces a fundamental shift in private market investing, enabling liquidity optionality through tokenized ownership of investment club shares. Traditional venture funds often lock investors’ capital for 7–10 years with no secondary liquidity. Fish Schools, by contrast, tokenize ownership using smart contracts, giving members the option to trade or redeem tokens after defined lockup periods (as short as three weeks). This structure, paired with integrations across major L2 networks and regulated custodians, creates a security-focused yet flexible mechanism for investors to manage liquidity while supporting compliance. Future upgrades will allow tokenized interests to be exchanged or staked within the Fish ecosystem, creating a dynamic secondary market for venture exposure. By unlocking liquidity in what has historically been an illiquid asset class, Fish Network expands accessibility, improves capital efficiency, and bridges the gap between DeFi innovation and traditional venture investing.

Collective Due Diligence & Governance

Fish Network transforms the diligence process from a closed, top-down structure into a transparent, community-driven system. Within each Fish School, investors collectively review, score, and vote on startup opportunities using Fish Points, a reputation-based mechanism that rewards active participation and expertise. This process introduces accountability and diversity of thought while reducing reliance on individual decision-makers. Votes and discussions are recorded onchain, providing a verifiable audit trail of how investment decisions were made. Organizers act as facilitators rather than gatekeepers, ensuring compliance and execution once the community decides. This approach not only increases the quality of investment decisions but also builds trust and engagement among participants. By embedding governance into smart contracts, Fish Network ensures that investment decisions are transparent, data-driven, and democratic - ushering in a new era of participatory venture capital.

Multi-Asset Expansion (RWAs)

While Fish Network began with startup investing, its underlying architecture is designed for expansion across RWAs. The platform can be adapted to fractionalize ownership in asset classes such as real estate, art, collectibles, and private credit, each represented as tokenized entities within Fish Schools. This model allows investors to gain diversified exposure to previously inaccessible assets while maintaining liquidity and transparency. Fish Network’s smart contract framework ensures that asset-backed tokens are compliant, auditable, and redeemable through qualified custodians. By bridging RWA tokenization with AI automation and collective governance, Fish Network enables institutional-grade fractional ownership for the retail and emerging investor base. This unlocks an enormous addressable market while preserving the same principles of community participation, compliance, and liquidity that define the Fish ecosystem.

Founder-Led Onchain Crowdfunding

Fish Network empowers founders to launch their own compliant crowdfunding campaigns directly within the ecosystem, turning the platform into a one-stop shop for both investors and startups. Instead of paying high upfront fees to traditional crowdfunding portals, founders can access a transparent, onchain fundraising process powered by smart contracts and AI-driven investor matching. Startups are vetted and onboarded through Fish Schools, where investor communities vote on which projects receive funding—ensuring higher-quality deal flow and genuine investor engagement. Once approved, founders can raise capital in digital dollars or ETH directly from their supporters while benefiting from automated KYC, escrow, and reporting tools. This makes the process faster, cheaper, and more aligned with investor incentives. Over time, founders can grow from single campaigns into recurring Fish School partnerships, building long-term investor communities around their ventures. By combining AI automation, Web3 compliance, and community governance, Fish Network gives founders and investors a shared digital infrastructure for collective capital formation.

AI-Powered Fundraising Automation

Fish Network integrates AI-driven fundraising agents to streamline and personalize investor outreach, qualification, and onboarding. These voice and workflow agents operate as digital associates that handle cold outreach, lead scoring, calendar scheduling, and follow-ups, removing manual friction from capital raising. Founders and fund managers using Fish Network gain access to an intelligent CRM layer powered by automation, allowing them to scale conversations across hundreds of investors while maintaining context and compliance. The system automatically tags leads, tracks engagement, and guides investors through onboarding and KYC steps within the Fish ecosystem. By integrating AI fundraising workflows, Fish Network turns what traditionally takes months of manual follow-up into an efficient, automated process - helping both founders and investors focus on meaningful engagement, due diligence, and community growth.

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