Getting started

Who the MetaLeX apps are for, how to sign in, which app does what, and what it costs

These guides are for the people who use the MetaLeX apps: founders, officers and directors running a company, investors in its rounds, employees and other holders of its securities, and token projects forming an entity through a launchpad. They describe what you click and what each step does, with no code.

The apps run on the cyberCORPs protocol. To learn how the protocol works, read How cyberCORPs works; to build on it, start with the guides and the reference.

Which app does what

The apps run on separate subdomains and share one MetaLeX account. A company and the securities it issues appear in every app once they exist.

App	Address	What you do there
cyberCORPs app	cybercorps.metalex.tech	Form a new LLC or C-Corp, or bring an existing company onchain. Run its cap table, board, grants and documents, and issue its securities from the Tokenization Hub.
cyberRAISE	cyberraise.metalex.tech	Create and run fundraising rounds, and invest in them.
ACE	inside cyberRAISE	Raise from a token community with a SAFE priced in the community token. Links to ace.metalex.tech redirect to cyberRAISE.
cyberSign	app.metalex.tech/cybersign	Propose, review, sign and countersign agreements. The cyberCORPs app's cyberSign sidebar item opens it.
LeXcheX	lexchex.metalex.tech	Prove accredited-investor status and hold the credential in your wallet.
Profile	profile.metalex.tech	Edit your MetaLeX identity, manage linked wallets, turn on notifications and delegate signing for a Safe.

Find the right guide

Guide	Read it to
Form a company	Form an LLC or C-Corp through the app, pay for it, and follow the filing to completion.
Run your company	Bring an existing company onchain, use mission control, the Incorporation Hub and Documents, read the public company page, and upgrade to v5.
Tokenization Hub	Set up classes and series, issue Ledger Entry Tokens (LETs), and enable scrip.
The cap table	See tokenized and untokenized positions together, import a cap table and tokenize positions.
Cap-table records, modeling and compliance	Export §219 stockholder lists, keep 409A, Rule 701, 3921 and 83(b) records, model a round and run an exit waterfall.
Grants	Award options, RSUs and restricted stock that vest onchain.
boardRoom	Manage officers and directors, governance documents and board consents.
cyberSign	Propose and sign agreements, and find them in your Contract Library.
cyberRAISE	Run a raise as an issuer, or invest in one.
ACE	Run or join a token-community raise, and bridge tokens between Solana and Base.
For holders	See what you hold, transfer it, and convert between LETs and scrip.
Profile	Set up your identity, link wallets and delegate signing.
LeXcheX	Get accredited.
Launchpads	Form the entity a MetaDAO or Umia launch prescribes.

Sign in and set up your account

Signing in the first time creates your MetaLeX account and its profile record, and links the wallet you signed in with. There is no separate registration. Your profile belongs to the account, so it follows you across every wallet you link; you add, switch and unlink wallets in Wallet Settings (see Profile). If you sign in without a wallet of your own, the account gets an embedded wallet that MetaLeX creates as part of your profile.

Signing in is a free Sign-In With Ethereum message and costs no gas. Screens that show private data, such as a company workspace or your holdings, ask you to Authenticate when you are not signed in.

You also need:

• A wallet. A browser wallet such as MetaMask or Rabby works. A Safe multisig is supported and recommended for a company's treasury, and a Safe can delegate its agreement signing to one wallet (see Profile).
• ETH for gas on the company's network. cyberCORPs run on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base. A company formed through the app gets its onchain record on Ethereum mainnet, the chain the formation fee is paid on.
• A desktop browser for company setup and the longer flows. The apps also work on a phone.

A company's pages open for any signed-in profile that has one of the company's owner wallets linked, whichever wallet you are browsing with. Signing for the company still needs an owner wallet connected on the company's network, and the app tells you which wallet to switch to (see Run your company).

Signatures and transactions

Your wallet asks you to approve two kinds of action, and it shows which kind before you approve:

• A message signature is free and instant. Signing in, agreeing to a legal document and expressing interest in a round are signatures.
• A transaction costs gas and confirms in a few seconds. Deploying a company, issuing a security, funding a round and closing a round are transactions.

Each guide says which steps are which.

What it costs

• Forming a new company through the app is a flat $1,000, paid in USDC. It covers the state filing, the formation documents, the initial tax filings and a lawyer consultation (see Form a company). A later annual report for that company costs the state's fee only.
• Bringing an existing company onchain is free apart from gas.
• Issuing and managing securities by hand in the Tokenization Hub is free apart from gas.
• Signing with cyberSign is free apart from gas.
• cyberRAISE charges the issuer 0.3% of the funds it claims from a round. Investors pay nothing, and rejected bids are never charged.
• Launchpad formation costs the founder nothing: MetaLeX submits the transaction and pays its gas.

MetaLeX never takes custody of your funds or your securities. Money in transit during a raise or a deal sits in an onchain escrow that no one can override (see Upgrades and control).

Terms used in these guides

• A cyberCORP is your company's onchain record and the contracts that run it.
• A Ledger Entry Token (LET) is an ERC-721 token for one ledger entry: a share position, a SAFE, an option. Each class or series has its own LET contract that mints its LETs.
• Scrip is a fungible ERC-20 token that tracks a class's LET units, which holders can trade. Its rights come from the company's governing documents; under MetaLeX-form bylaws, scrip is not stock on its own.
• The cap table is the record the app assembles from LETs, scrip and the positions you record offchain.
• The securities ledger is the company's legally definitive record. The company's governing documents, such as its bylaws, decide which record that is; tokenizing a class does not decide it.
• An EOI (expression of interest) is an investor's signed offer to invest in a round.

The Glossary defines the rest.

How the apps use the protocol

The apps are front ends over the cyberCORPs smart contracts. Creating a company, issuing and transferring securities, and signing agreements are contract calls. The app also keeps offchain records, such as untokenized cap table positions, drafts, formation details and versions of legal terms, and each guide says which actions are which.

• Deploying a cyberCORP calls the protocol's factory, which deploys the company's contracts. When the company's governing documents designate the onchain record as its securities ledger, the chain is that ledger (see Constitutive vs. pointer tokenization).
• Issuing a security mints a LET from the class's LET contract.
• Enabling scrip for a class deploys its scrip token, and holders can then convert LETs to scrip and back (see LETs and scrip).

Under the hood boxes in each guide name the contract behind the action you are taking. You can use the apps without reading them. To see the whole path at the contract level, follow Incorporate a cyberCORP.