A Swiss AG in Zug, piloting in Zürich.

The origin.

The first notes on DaiZen were written in January 2023 — three short essays on a near-empty website, all asking versions of the same question. What would a sharing economy look like if the people doing the sharing were also the people writing the rules? The essays were rough. The idea has not changed.

Between then and now the work has mostly been infrastructure. A Kusama validator went live in 2024 — solar-powered, sitting on the canary network of the chain we plan to settle on. It has been producing blocks since. We chose to run real hardware before writing a single line of marketing about a smart contract, because we wanted to be the kind of project that knew what an outage felt like before it asked anyone to trust it with a deposit.

Why Zug, why Zürich.

The legal seat is Zug. The pilot is Zürich. The two are forty kilometres apart and the choice is deliberate.

Zug is one of the few places in the world where a company building on a public chain can incorporate openly, file accounts honestly, and speak with its regulator on a first-name basis. We wanted the legal ground under DaiZen to be the kind of ground that does not move.

Zürich is where the asset is. Twenty-five thousand bicycles in Kreis 4 and 5 alone, mostly stationary, mostly cared for, parked next to owners who already know what fair wear looks like. The pilot is small on purpose. A hundred owners. One asset class. One winter. We are interested in whether the trust layer works — not in headlines about a fleet that grew quickly.

The people, the pace.

DaiZen is a small team. The author of the 2023 essays is still the author of the 2026 code. There is no growth team, no marketing department, no investor deck stamped with a fund's logo. The validator, the contracts, the website you are reading — all built by a handful of people who would rather ship one neighborhood well than twenty cities poorly.

We will write more here as more people join. Until then, the most accurate description is the simplest one: a Swiss AG in Zug, building a neighborhood sharing economy in Zürich, taking the time it takes.