Daxos Capital · Internal Teardown · 2026-09-17 · Confidential

Tuyo: Daxos Teardown

Tuyo Inc. (tuyo.com), a self-custodial crypto wallet with fiat rails, a Visa card and DeFi yield, marketed as an all-in-one money app. Co-founder and CEO Jorge Izquierdo, co-founder of Aragon and its former CEO, based in Spain. Second co-founder Alejandro Perezpayá, ex Allfunds, Miami, joined 2024-08. Harmonic company 63511715, founded 2023-09-01, 11 people, stage VENTURE_UNKNOWN.

Provenance. Every funding, valuation, stage, headcount, investor and founding-date figure is from the Harmonic API or is written "Harmonic: no record." No web funding number is used anywhere. Everything else carries a URL and an access date. Synthesis of four workstreams run 2026-09-17 (product, regulatory, market, team) plus the prior Aragon founders and Aragon treasury research.

Re-verified at source before writing, not inherited. Harmonic /companies/63511715: funding_total 0.0, 0 rounds, investors empty, valuation null, currently_raising null, funding_attribute_null_status EXISTS_BUT_UNDISCLOSED, record updated 2026-09-15. Base mainnet direct eth_call: tUSDCb totalAssets 375,479.72 USDC, getFee exactly 10.0%; tETHb totalAssets 0.1816 WETH; 0xc87D11AE...ae1920 returns 0x from eth_getCode, so it is an EOA and not a multisig, and it is the owner of the CollateralAccountController. The four claims carrying the most weight in the rating are confirmed at source.
Company rating
4.50 / 10  MEET
Base 2.50 + EV +1.00 + Geo +1.00 + Chain 0.00 = 4.50
COMPANY=4.50 BASE=2.50 EV=+1.00 GEO=+1.00 CHAIN=0.00 DAXOS=2.0 VERDICT=MEET
Base 2.50. Mean of the six parts is 2.75, adjusted down 0.25. Stated and reversible: the six parts are not independent. The only scalable revenue line is a 10% performance fee on an Earn book of $375,480, and 15 addresses hold 90.7% of it with one holding 40%. The weak traction score and the weak model score are the same fragility counted twice and they interact worse than they average. A reader who declines the adjustment lands at Base 2.75, COMPANY 4.75.

EV +1.00, the $0 to $1M tier. Money verifiably received by the entity is $0. Harmonic funding_total 0.0 across 0 rounds, investors empty, pulled fresh today. EDGAR full text returns 0 hits for "Tuyo Inc" and "Tuyo, Inc." and no registrant. Tracxn independently records no rounds. The one named investor claim (a PitchBook-sourced seed led by Transpose Platform Management) does not survive contact: Transpose's own portfolio page lists roughly 900 companies down to one-person pre-seed names and Tuyo is not on it. Harmonic's EXISTS_BUT_UNDISCLOSED flag is a model inference, not an observation. If the team workstream's $3M to $5M burn estimate were shown to be a priced round rather than spend, the tier falls to +0.50 and COMPANY to 4.00. Not adopted: a burn estimate is evidence about spending, not raising, and the likeliest source is personal founder capital, which is not a round.

Geo +1.00, USA. Rule applied: geo follows the operating entity of record, not the residence of individuals. Every first-party document names a US corporation. App Store seller of record is Tuyo Inc. Play developer record gives 251 Little Falls Dr, Wilmington DE, the CSC registered agent address, with a 302 phone. The Terms are "governed by the laws of the State of Delaware." Harmonic HQ is San Jose. No non-US entity is disclosed or was found. Genuinely ambiguous, shown both ways: the CEO is in Spain, roughly seven of eleven staff are in Spain, and none of the four US addresses is an actual office (San Jose stale, Orlando a $9.98/month virtual mailbox, Wilmington a registered agent). On an EU reading the bonus is +0.25 and COMPANY is 3.75. USA is the headline because the entity, the governing law, the seller of record, the second founder's location and the target market are all US. The bonus rests on operating and contracting location, not a verified charter: no registry confirmed the state of incorporation.

Chain 0.00. Not Berachain. EVM across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon; the card spends USDC on Base and both Earn vaults are Base contracts called directly today.
FOR DAXOS: 2.0 / 10. No cheque. There is nothing to buy. Harmonic records currently_raising null and 0 rounds, there is no Form D, no investor claims the company, and the one named claim was refuted against the alleged investor's own portfolio page. A fund cannot underwrite a company it cannot buy. Worse for an equity buyer, the capital formation instrument appears to be a token: a committed 2026 TGE, rewards structured as numbered pre-TGE seasons counting down to it, "Users of Tuyo are not just customers, but owners", and at least 20% of supply promised to users before any investor allocation exists. 2.0 and not lower because a $100k to $500k cheque would mechanically fit a seed if one happened, the founder is worth knowing, the background is clean and the onchain work is now done. 2.0 and not higher because there is no instrument, the instrument that is coming dilutes equity by at least 20% of supply first, and the fundamentals are not close.
Reasoning, against Tuyo's own market. Tuyo is a self-custodial stablecoin spending app, and that lane has produced no standalone venture outcome. The winners adjacent to it sit in three other buckets and Harmonic prices all three: sell the rails (Rain, Tuyo's own card partner, $338.5M raised at a $1.95B valuation; Bridge, Tuyo's own fiat partner, EXITED into Stripe; Baanx and Monavate EXITED to Exodus for a press-reported $175M), own a wallet at scale and monetise trading (Phantom $268M raised at $3.0B, MetaMask inside Consensys, Trust Wallet), or hold a licence and take deposits (Coinbase, Nubank at $30.05B). Tuyo is in none of them: a customer of the first bucket twice over, no wallet base to monetise, and no licence of any kind, confirmed as zero hits across all 59 FinCEN MSB jurisdictions and 32,462 registrant records and zero on the NYDFS list. The fourth bucket's record is Wirex, whose 500,000 cards were switched off in one second when Visa terminated WaveCrest in January 2018 and which now has 1,407 lifetime iOS ratings; Juno, which survived losing Wyre then died from the Synapse and Evolve failure, retiring all crypto services 2025-09-30; Binance, which could not keep an EEA card alive past 2023-12-20; Bakkt and Eco, which both retreated from consumer to B2B; Linus, charged by the SEC for exactly the retail-yield product Tuyo advertises; Celsius and BlockFi, which between them raised $2.17B and destroyed it; and Leap Wallet, dead 2026-05-28 with the epitaph that non-custodial wallets "operate on thin, flow-driven revenue streams, which makes mid-tier players particularly vulnerable." The one company that shipped Tuyo's exact four-part bundle to consumers first, Gnosis Pay, concluded the consumer business was not the business and now sells it white-label, and its entire network did $131M of card spend in all of 2025, less than a third of what Tuyo would need to earn $1M from interchange. Meanwhile the competitive entry is from above and uses Tuyo's own supplier: Phantom Cash reached general availability in spring 2026 as a Visa issued by Lead Bank with Bridge Ventures LLC as Program Manager, at 305x Tuyo's global iOS rating count and a $3.0B valuation. Against that market Tuyo's measured position is 9,000 card collateral accounts with a median balance of $0.43, an Earn book of $375,480 held 90.7% by 15 addresses, roughly $1.1M of total user assets visible on Base, and a realized net Earn yield of 3.07% over 90 days against an advertised "up to 11% APY." The founder is real and the build is hard, which is why this is not a 2. The market, the model and the measured traction are why it is not a 6.

What Tuyo is

A self-custodial crypto wallet with four things bundled on top: virtual USD and EUR account numbers in the user's name, a Visa card, DeFi yield, and a discretionary card-forgiveness mechanic called Buy Now, Pay Maybe.

Tuyo builds none of the four. Fiat rails and the account numbers are Bridge. The card is issued through Signify Holdings, Inc. trading as Rain. The yield is Aave V3. Custody is pushed to the user. What Tuyo builds is an iOS and Android app plus an integration layer.

CREDIT Tuyo describes itself accurately and says so first: "Tuyo Inc. is a financial technology company. Tuyo is not a bank, cryptocurrency exchange, or asset custodian. Tuyo facilitates self-custody and offers a card issued by a third-party card issuer" (App Store listing, 2026-09-17). The press calls it a neobank. It is not one and it does not claim to be. That first-party honesty is rarer in this category than it should be.

Surface: tuyo.com is a six-page Framer site. The substantive documentation is 29 VitePress guides on help.tuyo.com that the marketing site does not link prominently. Legal documents are Notion pages behind about.tuyo.com. iOS app 6470110305 released 2024-09-20, v1.26.58 shipped 2026-09-16. Android com.tuyo.mobile.android released 2025-10-01, updated 2026-09-15.
Published fees (tuyo.com/faq, 2026-09-17): no issuance fee, no monthly fee, no fee on USD card transactions, FX spread usually under 1%, 25 bps volume fee with stablecoin-to-stablecoin trades and bridging exempt, 10% performance fee on Earn returns.

The founders and the Aragon question

1. Jorge Izquierdo co-founded Aragon in 2016, wrote the core protocol himself (940 commits to aragon/aragonOS against 135 for the next contributor), was CTO then CEO, and resigned on 2021-01-11 in protest over governance decisions, 32 months before Tuyo was founded and 34 months before the Aragon Association announced its dissolution. Alejandro Perezpayá joined as second co-founder in 2024-08, eleven months after founding, so this is not an Aragon reunion.

2. No Aragon money is traceable to Tuyo. THREE CHECKS, ZERO HITS The 29-page Patagon Management complaint (S.D.N.Y. 1:24-cv-08290, filed 2024-10-31), the most motivated document in existence for finding founder self-dealing and which did name a different venture (Nation3), contains zero occurrences of "Tuyo" and never names Izquierdo as a defendant. 529 transactions across izqui.eth, cuende.eth and tuyo.eth were cross-referenced against five known Aragon treasury addresses: zero hits. And the full unclaimed residual of 11,249.01 ETH reconciles exactly, to the penny, from the redemption contract through a Safe to the Aragon Foundation treasury on 2024-12-17 and 2024-12-19.

3. Tuyo could nonetheless have been seeded lawfully from personal money, and that is the likeliest answer. The 2017 sale terms allocated 15% of the ANT supply, about 6.48M ANT, to "the founders and early contributors," vesting over two years with a six month cliff and so fully vested around 2019. That pot was personal property years before Tuyo existed. The treasury itself was the Association's, held under a Swiss non-profit purpose, and could not lawfully have capitalised a private company. The per-person split is not public, so the size of Izquierdo's own pot is unknown.

Caveat on the negative. The onchain check covered five Aragon addresses against three ENS-resolved addresses on Ethereum mainnet only, on a capped result set. ENS ownership is not proof of identity. It does not cover other addresses, other chains, exchange transfers, fiat or equity. Clean, but not proof of absence.

Product and custody

REAL The wallet is genuine self-custody

A BIP-39 mnemonic on device (English word list, BIP-32, path m/44'/60'/0'/0/0, no passphrase, mnemonicToAccount from viem/accounts) derives a signer EOA that authorises a ZeroDev Kernel 3.2 smart account holding the assets. Both contracts are ZeroDev shared infrastructure live on Base, and user accounts resolve as ERC-7760 minimal proxies pointing at the Kernel implementation. The documented architecture is the deployed architecture.

Tuyo documents this in technical detail most of the category does not publish, including the warnings against itself: that reproducing an address does not prove authority, and that "The ejection route was simulated but has not been verified through a completed on-chain withdrawal in this guide." (help.tuyo.com/guides/understand-your-smart-account.html and recover-kernel-assets.html, 2026-09-17.)

The flip side of that honesty. Tuyo's own recommended exit procedure reads "We strongly recommend using a coding agent to help inspect your account, prepare the code and simulate the transfer." It needs Node.js, Viem 2.54.0, manual ABI encoding of an execute(bytes32,bytes) call, gas funding of the signer and simulation against live state. That is a developer exit, not a consumer exit. It happens to be documented well.

CONTRADICTED The card layer is not self-custody, and the FAQ says it is

Each card user gets a CollateralAccount minimal clone. Reading the verified source (0x221677d88E507D21b4f7eC4D8D17e0f2FEd526af, Blockscout, 2026-09-17):

Against that, tuyo.com/faq, same date: "Can I always take my money out? Yes... No lock-ups, no exceptions." For a card balance that is not accurate. There is a lock-up, there is an exception, the unilateral exit destroys the product, and the final amount is not guaranteed. The claim is true for the Kernel account and false for the collateral account, and the FAQ does not draw the distinction.

SHARPEST RISK One hot key governs all 9,000 accounts

CollateralAccountController.owner() returns 0xc87D11AE8c11a4c5a7BA3Ea48827bFFaecae1920. Confirmed today by direct eth_getCode: empty bytecode, so an EOA, not a multisig. That single key sets the counterparty and the collect whitelist for all 9,000 user collateral accounts, and owns both Earn vaults where _setFee permits a performance fee up to 100% of yield (principal is protected: emergencyRescue cannot touch the aToken). It is operationally hot: recent transactions include withdrawAsset on Rain's controller (2026-09-05, 2026-09-10) and addAdmin on Tuyo's Rain proxy (2026-09-15). Not disclosed anywhere Tuyo publishes.

CONTRADICTED Earn is one Aave wrapper, not a curated set

Marketing says "We curate for you the best yield strategies available in the market" and "The highest APYs on USDC, EURC and even BTC." What exists onchain is two proxies pointing at Aave's own ATokenVault (source header: @author Aave Protocol, "All Rights Reserved © AaveCo"). Tuyo wrote no strategy code. One protocol, not a curated set. No EURC vault and no BTC vault exist. The largest Earn user holds 20,000 EURC and 0.44 cbBTC as plain idle tokens, not vault shares. The ETH vault holds 0.18 WETH and is dead, which I confirmed today.

TWO REAL POSITIVES, UNADVERTISED Tuyo deployed Aave's audited vault rather than writing its own, so Earn-specific risk is about as low as this design gets. And the EIP-1967 admin slot on both vaults reads 0x...dEaD: the upgrade right has been burned and Tuyo cannot swap the implementation. For a self-custody product that is the right call.

Assurance, and known user-facing failures

No audit of any Tuyo-authored contract was found. No bug bounty. security.txt 404s on four hosts. The genuinely Tuyo-written code is the collateral system, which is also the part holding the card float and the part with no published assurance. It is short, roughly 120 lines, which lowers risk, but short is not audited.

From App Store and Play reviews, 2026-09-17: onboarding freezes that lock users out of accounts they cannot recover ("it requests a password I never chose nor got or a non-existent backup"); eligibility shown wrong before deposit (verified, deposited 110 USDC, then told the card was unavailable in that country); card declines at real merchants; account deletion that errors while KYC data is retained; and one uncorroborated report of an Earn withdrawal freeze in March 2026. Android is 3.98 across 320 ratings with 64 of them one star, 20 percent.
Marketing is stale against Tuyo's own docs, same day. The FAQ says ATMs and PIN are "Not yet"; help.tuyo.com documents both as live ($250 per withdrawal, 3 attempts per 24h). The card page says "CARD LIMIT 10,000 USD/DAY"; the docs say $50,000 rising to $200,000. A 5x discrepancy in the headline limit. The marketing site cannot be relied on for current product facts.

Regulatory position, and the two risky features

VERIFIED NEGATIVE Tuyo holds nothing

This is now a verified negative rather than an absence of evidence. The FinCEN MSB register was swept across all 59 US jurisdictions, 32,462 registrant records parsed, returning 0 hits for "Tuyo", 0 for "Signify", 0 for "Izquierdo", 0 for "Perezpay" (msb.fincen.gov, 2026-09-17). Not on the NYDFS virtual currency list. No CASP authorisation. No state licence disclosure page, which every licensed transmitter must publish and which Bridge does publish in detail.

For a genuinely non-custodial wallet this is the expected and defensible answer. FinCEN's 2019 guidance treats an unhosted-wallet software provider that never controls user funds as outside the money transmitter definition, and Tuyo's architecture is built to sit exactly there. Terms 2.4: "The Service is a purely non-custodial application, meaning we do not ever have custody, possession, or control of your digital assets at any time."

Every permission is borrowed, from two suppliers, and one is now inside a competitor

PermissionHeld byTuyo
US money transmissionBridge Building Inc, NMLS 2450917, 32 jurisdictionsBorrowed
EEA crypto services (MiCA CASP)Bridge Building S.A., CSSF N00000012, granted 2026-06-29Borrowed
EEA e-money (EMI)Bridge Building S.A., CSSF W00000024, granted 2026-06-29Borrowed
US card issuingRain America Inc and an unnamed issuing bank, under Visa licenceBorrowed
Custody of user assetsNobody. User holds keysStructurally avoided
Anything at allTuyo Inc.None

Stripe closed its $1.1bn acquisition of Bridge on 2025-02-04. So Tuyo's fiat rails sit inside a company building competing consumer stablecoin products, with no commercial reason to prioritise an 11-person customer, and which is simultaneously the Program Manager for Phantom Cash. If Bridge goes, Tuyo is a wallet with no way in or out. If Rain goes, there is no card, and the card is the entire proposition. Replacement is a six to twelve month integration during which the product is dead.

Tuyo has no fallback permission and I found no evidence of a second provider or of a licence application in progress. This is standard fintech-on-rails risk and not disqualifying by itself. Most of the category runs this way. But the usual mitigation, either your own licence stack in progress or a redundant provider, is absent.

WRONG TODAY Tuyo tells consumers its money transmitter is "Bridge Ventures, Inc." Bridge's own legal pages say US money transmission is Bridge Building Inc, NMLS 2450917. Probably stale rather than sinister, but it is wrong, and it is the kind of thing a state examiner reads first.

Footprint is narrower than the marketing

The pitch is "Receive payments like a local anywhere in the world." 27 countries are blocked platform-wide (no wallet, no Earn, no ramps, no card, no account numbers) including the United Kingdom, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, Turkey, Bangladesh, Nepal and Ukraine, which removes most high-volume inbound remittance corridors. The card is unavailable to residents of 19 US states plus DC and 5 territories, and New York additionally loses fiat at the Bridge layer.

Rain America is federally MSB-registered in every single state where the card is blocked, so the exclusions have nothing to do with federal registration. They are state licensing or issuing-bank policy, set by a private schedule nobody publishes. The card is not available in Delaware, the state whose law governs the Terms and most likely the state of incorporation.

Risky feature 1: Buy Now, Pay Maybe

Terms section 3.2 (revised 2026-07-28) define it as "a discretionary processing-discount feature pursuant to which Tuyo may, in its sole and absolute discretion, elect not to debit some or all of the amount that would otherwise be debited", with the merchant paid in full and the difference "absorbed by Tuyo." The same section asserts BNPM "is not a sweepstakes, lottery, prize, contest, raffle, game of chance, or rewards program."

The FAQ says the opposite: "some of your card purchases are randomly free."

The US lottery test needs prize, chance and consideration. Tuyo's drafting attacks two of three. On consideration it is strong: no opt-in, no enrollment, no minimum spend, and nothing a user can do to change the odds. That is better than a bolt-on alternative method of entry because there is nothing to enter. On prize, "a discount, not a transfer of value" is orthodox. On chance it simply asserts the conclusion and the marketing contradicts it.

DRAFTING TELL The same Terms added an Invite Program in the 2026-07-28 revision whose section 3.16.7 expressly states its vouchers "are earned deterministically upon satisfaction of Tuyo's applicable activation criteria and are not distributed by chance." The BNPM section has no equivalent sentence. In a document this carefully worded, negating chance where you can and declining to where you cannot is not an oversight.

No regulator has acted against a comparable mechanic. Nothing in CourtListener, SEC releases or press. That is novelty, not a clean bill of health: no safe harbour to point at and no adverse ruling to underwrite against. Context, not precedent: Congress had to pass the American Savings Promotion Act of 2014 to permit prize-linked savings, and only for banks and credit unions, which tells you which way the default runs. Five states legislated against sweepstakes mechanics in 2025, and New York's statute reaches supporting service providers including payment processors.

My read on the near-term risk is not gambling law. It is unfair and deceptive practices. Put "Your next purchase may be free" and "randomly free" next to "not a sweepstakes, lottery, prize, contest, raffle, game of chance" and a state AG sees a consumer sold a chance outcome by the marketing while the contract denies the chance outcome exists. Cheaper to bring, and it does not require anyone to decide whether BNPM is gambling.

Two practical problems. The excluded US states for BNPM are never listed anywhere, so a user cannot determine whether the headline feature applies to them. Trivially fixable, which makes its persistence a signal about compliance attention. And BNPM is a marketing subsidy paid from the balance sheet with no disclosed cap, at a company Harmonic records with zero funding. Every free coffee is cash out of an 11-person company. The regulatory risk is real; the burn risk is immediate and arithmetical.

Risky feature 2: retail yield up to 11 percent

Tuyo is structurally better placed than the enforcement comparators, and it is worth being precise about why.

ActionDateCustody
BlockFi, $50M SEC penalty plus $50M to 32 states, BlockFi Interest Accounts as unregistered securities2022-02-14Custodial
Genesis and Gemini, Gemini Earn, Securities Act 5(a) and 5(c)2023-01-12Custodial
Celsius and Mashinsky, fraud plus unregistered offer and sale2023-07-13Custodial
Linus Financial, stopped selling, SEC charged unregistered offer and sale2022-03-25Custodial

All four took the asset, pooled it, deployed it at their own discretion and promised a rate, so the user held a claim against the platform and nothing else. Tuyo keeps the key with the user, routes to third-party vaults on a public chain, promises nothing, and discloses that returns may be "lower, zero, or negative." Those disclosures are materially better drafted than anything BlockFi or Celsius published.

What weakens it is not small. "We curate for you the best yield strategies available in the market" is managerial effort in Tuyo's own words, and that is the efforts-of-others limb Howey turns on. The 10% performance fee makes Tuyo an economic participant in the user's return rather than a neutral pipe. And there is real tension between "we curate for you and take 10%" and "we owe you no fiduciary duties and are not a party to these transactions." Both cannot be true in the way a user would understand them.

One EU issue for counsel, flagged as an issue and not a conclusion. EURC is an e-money token under MiCA, MiCA restricts granting interest on e-money tokens, and Tuyo advertises "the highest APYs on USDC, EURC and even BTC" to a base including EEA residents, while holding no authorisation of its own to be supervised under.

3.5x GAP The 11 percent does not survive a check

Reading convertToAssets on tUSDCb at historical blocks gives realized net yield to depositors, after the 10% fee, measured from live chain state:

WindowShare price thenNowPeriod returnAnnualized
30 days1.0737531.076584+0.264%3.26%
90 days1.0685781.076584+0.749%3.07%
180 days1.0612511.076584+1.445%2.95%
365 days1.0422031.076584+3.299%3.30%
since deploy 2024-11-181.0000001.076584+7.66%4.11%

Every window lands near 3 percent. The advertised figure is "up to 11% APY" and "the highest APYs on USDC." Two fair caveats: "up to" is doing work, and the headline may blend a TUYOs points value that has no price because the token does not exist yet. But whatever 11 percent describes, it is not what depositors in the only material Tuyo vault have received, and the acquisition promise is therefore not deliverable from the actual strategy.

CREDIT The 10% fee itself is exactly what the contract enforces. getFee() returns 100000000000000000 against a SCALE of 1e18. I re-confirmed this today: precisely 10.0%. That disclosure is verifiable and correct.

THE PATTERN Three marketing-versus-contract contradictions in one sweep

#Marketing saysThe contract says
1BNPM makes purchases "randomly free" (FAQ)"not a sweepstakes, lottery, prize, contest, raffle, game of chance" (Terms 3.2), while the Invite Program section expressly negates chance and this one does not
2"Users of Tuyo are not just customers, but owners", a published TGE countdown, and "at least 20% of its supply to users and community" (rewards page, FAQ)TUYOs "have no monetary significance, do not represent any form of currency, digital asset, or tangible property" and airdrop talk is "purely illustrative" (Terms)
3"No lock-ups, no exceptions" (FAQ)3 day cooldown on all 9,000 collateral accounts, counterparty co-signature on normal release, counterparty collect needing no user signature, and the starting balance "is not a guaranteed final payout"

Add a privacy policy last updated 2024-07-17, two years stale, through the launch of the card, the launch of Earn, EEA and Mexican fiat rails and the Invite Program. No GDPR controller identity, no legal bases, no transfer mechanism, no retention periods, roughly 2,800 characters, at a company processing KYC data for EEA residents. The Terms were revised seven weeks ago. The privacy policy was not.

Each is fixable in an afternoon. Together they say the compliance function is not keeping pace with the product, at a company whose entire legal position depends on those documents being exactly right. The engineer's documentation on help.tuyo.com is honest and specific. The marketer's copy is not. Nobody is reconciling them.

Market and competitors: the closest twelve

All funding, stage, headcount and valuation from Harmonic, retrieved 2026-09-17. Product and scale figures carry their own source. App ratings are summed userRatingCount across up to 28 iTunes storefronts.
#CompanyHarmonic fundingStage / valuationiOSCustodyPosition against Tuyo
1Gnosis Pay$0.00, 0 roundsVENTURE_UNKNOWNno appSelf, SafeShipped the exact four-part bundle first, then quit consumer. Now white-label to Zeal, Picnic, Rebind. $131M network spend in all of 2025
2Phantom$268,000,000, 4 roundsSERIES_C, $3.0B130,605SelfPhantom Cash live spring 2026, Visa via Lead Bank, Bridge Ventures LLC as Program Manager. Tuyo's own rail, 305x the app base
3Exodus$169,999,986, 3 roundsEXITED, Nasdaq EXOD70,842SelfBought Baanx and Monavate for a press-reported $175M, launched Exodus Pay. Same bundle, vertically integrated, 275 staff
4MetaMask (Consensys)$0.00 at this recordVENTURE_UNKNOWN202,806SelfMastercard live in 49 US states. Metal tier $199/yr for 3% cashback. Three of Tuyo's four legs at 474x scale
5RedotPay$194,000,000, 3 roundsSERIES_B16,408CustodialThe actual volume leader in consumer crypto cards, 38x Tuyo, and absent from the brief's competitor set
6ether.fi Cash$32,300,000, 3 roundsSERIES_A1,885Self, Safe on ScrollClosest direct comp by app scale at 4.4x. Funds 3% cashback out of the ETHFI token, which Tuyo cannot do
7KAST$90,000,000, 2 roundsSERIES_A, $600M1,172Custodial$90M and $600M against 1,172 ratings. Money is not the constraint in this category. Charges $1,000 and $10,000 a year
8Bleap$8,300,000, 3 roundsSEED385MPCHolds its own MiCA licence via Bleap SIA, Latvia. 562,700 web traffic on $8.3M, 12x Tuyo, won on SEO
9Baanx$35,300,000, 5 roundsEXITED 2026-05-01n/an/aThe issuing layer behind the MetaMask and Exodus cards. Acquired. The margin sits here
10Rainbow$19,650,000, 3 roundsSERIES_A, last priced 2021-109,312SelfLaunched RNBW in Feb 2026 instead of a Series B. Wallet-only, one of four legs
11Zerion$22,500,000, 6 roundsSERIES_B then an ANGEL 2024-117,721SelfDown-shape cap table. No own card, ran a promo giving away Gnosis Pay cards
12Holyheld$0.00, 1 round, undisclosedSEEDno appn/aNamed USD and EUR accounts, 3% on idle, CHF 500/yr membership. The clearest example of the subscription model this category needs
Tuyo$0.00, 0 roundsVENTURE_UNKNOWN428Self, except the card layerOwns none of its four legs

Which of them do the exact Tuyo bundle

Self-custodyFiat account numbersCardYieldAll four
Tuyoyesyes, via Bridgeyes, Visa via Rainyes, up to 11%yes
Gnosis Payyes, SafeUSD/EUR IBAN/BRL/ARSyes, Visa via Monavateauto-yield statedyes, but sold white-label
Exodus Payyesnot confirmedyes, owns the issuerrewards for holdingnear, vertically integrated
Phantom Cashwallet yesnot confirmedyes, Lead Bank, Bridge as PM"passive income" on CASHnear
BleapMPCno IBAN foundyes, own MiCA licence4%near
ether.fi Cashyes, Safe on Scrollnot confirmedyes, Visavia restaking collateralnear
MetaMaskyesnoyes, Mastercardstakingthree of four
KAST / RedotPayno, custodialyesyesyesthree of four, wrong custody
Holyheldnot confirmedyes, named USD/EURnone on current page3%two of four
Zerion, Rainbow, Family, Trust, Rabbyyesnonopartialone of four

The verdict. Exactly one company shipped Tuyo's full bundle to consumers before Tuyo, and it concluded the consumer business was not the business. Three companies are assembling the same bundle now at 100x to 300x Tuyo's scale. Tuyo owns none of its four legs. The account numbers belong to Bridge, the card to Rain, the yield to Aave, and self-custody is a posture any wallet can adopt in a sprint, not an asset.

The graveyard, and the recurring cause of death

  1. Partner failure, not competition. Visa terminated WaveCrest on 2018-01-04 and Wirex's roughly 500,000 cards went dead in one second ("All the cards were shut down in one second", co-founder Dmitry Lazarichev). Wirex today has 1,407 lifetime iOS ratings and has not raised since 2022-02-16. Juno survived losing Wyre in 2023, then the Synapse and Evolve failure killed it: all crypto services retired 2025-09-30, and Harmonic now shows OnJuno at $0 funding, 249 web traffic and 100 Twitter followers. Binance ended EEA Visa card services 2023-12-20 as Contis and Solaris stepped back. Not one of these lost a product fight. Tuyo rents two regulated layers.
  2. Card economics never covered the promised rewards. Crypto.com cut CRO card rewards from a 1-8% range to 0-2% in May 2022, CRO fell 11-17% on the day, and the CEO partly reversed within 24 hours after backlash. Fold listed on Nasdaq at around $10 in Feb 2025 and the stock plunged to $3.32 on announcing its bitcoin rewards credit card. Public markets do not believe card rewards are a business.
  3. Yield is a securities question. Linus stopped selling. Celsius raised $900.3M and BlockFi raised $1.266B at a $4.75B valuation; BlockFi now has 9,516 monthly web visits.
  4. Self-custody users do not spend. The clean natural experiment: Robinhood's main app has 4,840,585 US iOS ratings and Robinhood Wallet, its self-custodial product, has 6,701. That is 0.14 percent. Same brand, same marketing machine, same install base to cross-sell.
  5. Mid-tier wallets get squeezed from both ends. Leap Wallet's epitaph, 2026-05-28: non-custodial wallets "operate on thin, flow-driven revenue streams, which makes mid-tier players particularly vulnerable as activity and liquidity concentrate."

The stalled middle, which is the tier Tuyo is in

CompanyLast priced roundYears sinceApp ratings
RainbowSeries A 2021-10-014.99,312
ZerionSeries B, then an ANGEL 2024-11-12down-shape7,721
FamilySeed 2022-04-014.4390
WirexSeries B 2022-02-164.61,407
EcoSeries B 2021-07-275.1pivoted to B2B
Gnosis Paynone recordedn/ano app found
Leap WalletSeed 2022dead 2026-05-28n/a
Tuyonone recordedn/a428

Not one self-custodial consumer wallet in this middle tier has raised a priced up-round in the last four years.

The counter-case is real and narrow. KAST raised $90M at $600M with 1,172 ratings and RedotPay raised $194M with 16,408. Capital is available in this category at valuations that do not track users. If the thesis is "the category is funded aggressively and Izquierdo can catch a round on reputation," that is a defensible read of the market. It is a financing thesis, not a business thesis, and both comparables are custodial, which is the one design decision Tuyo has ruled out.

Business model arithmetic

THE FINDING The fee schedule excludes Tuyo's own core use case

From the FAQ, quoted: "Bridging tokens and trading between stablecoins are exempt from the volume-based fee", and there is "no fee for USD transactions." The flagship flow is on-ramp to USDC, earn on USDC, spend USDC. Under Tuyo's own published schedule that flow generates exactly one revenue line: the 10% Earn performance fee. The 25 bps trading fee only bites when a user trades into volatile assets, which is wallet behaviour, not money-app behaviour.

Earn is the only scalable line, and it needs $100M to produce $1M

Displayed APYs are already net, so if the displayed rate is r the take is r × 0.1111 of balance per year. At the 11% headline that is 1.22%; at a 9% displayed rate it is 1.00%, the working figure.

Annual revenue from Earn aloneRequired Earn deposits
$1M$100M
$5M$500M
$20M$2B

Tuyo's Earn book today is $375,480, read from the contract by me. At a 1% take that is roughly $3,800 a year, and the 1,302 USDC of accrued uncollected fees corroborates the order of magnitude.

The card, and why Buy Now Pay Maybe is a bind

Interchange. Federal Reserve Reg II data for 2024: exempt issuers (under $10B assets) average 1.21% of value; covered issuers 0.47%. In the EU, Regulation (EU) 2015/751 Article 3 caps consumer debit interchange at 0.20% by law. That pool is split among the issuing bank, Rain, the processor and Tuyo. Assuming Rain and the issuer keep 60%, which is my assumption and is unverified, Tuyo nets about 0.48% on US spend and 0.08% on EU spend. At Tuyo's observed 30% US mix that blends to about 0.20% of card spend. If Tuyo receives no interchange at all, which is possible under a plain platform agreement, this line is zero.

Add FX at 0.54% effective (0.9% spread on an assumed 60% non-USD share) and gross take on card spend is 0.74%.

So Buy Now, Pay Maybe breaks even at a forgiveness rate of 0.74% of spend, which is one transaction in 135. Both settings of that parameter are bad. At one in 135 the giveaway is statistically invisible: a user tapping a few times a week goes months without a hit and "Imagine buying coffee and not paying" reads as false. At a rate high enough to be the product, say one in 20, the cost is 5% of spend against a 0.74% take and the card loses 6.8 times what it earns. Tuyo discloses neither the odds nor any cap. The entire card contribution margin hinges on one undisclosed parameter.

Per-user, and what the targets require

LineCalculationAnnual
Earn$2,000 × 1.00%$20.00
FX spread$6,000 × 60% × 0.9%$32.40
Interchange$6,000 × 0.20%$12.00
Trading$2,000 × 0.25%$5.00
Gross ARPU$69.40
Buy Now Pay Maybe at 0.5% of spend−$6,000 × 0.5%−$30.00
Net ARPU$39.40
Engaged user assumed at $2,000 Earn balance, $6,000 annual card spend, $2,000 fee-bearing trades. That ARPU closes paid acquisition: at a three-year payback with no churn allowable CAC is about $120, at one year it is $39. Neither buys a funded consumer fintech install in any market.
TargetEngaged users at $69 grossEngaged users at $39 netOr Earn deposits alone
$1M14,40025,400$100M
$5M72,000127,000$500M
$20M288,000508,000$2B

From card spend alone, at 0.20% blended net interchange, $1M of revenue needs $500M of annual card spend, which is nearly four times the entire Gnosis Pay network's $131M across all of 2025. $20M needs $10B, roughly 76 times that network.

Implied revenue today at 1,000 to 3,000 engaged users is $39,000 to $117,000 a year. Given 428 lifetime iOS ratings and roughly 800 collateral accounts holding $100 or more, the low end is likelier. This is a pre-revenue company by any practical definition, and the gap is a user-count gap, not a pricing gap. Doubling every fee does not change the answer.

Every competitor that makes money on a card charges for it

CompanySubscriptionWhat it buys
KAST$1,000/yr Premium, $10,000/yr Private2% and 3% cashback vs 1.5% free
HolyheldCHF 500/yr membershipnamed USD and EUR accounts, 3% on idle
MetaMask Metal Card$199/yr3% cashback on up to $10,000/yr
Coinbase One Card$49.99/yrup to 4% bitcoin back
ether.fi Cashno fee, tiers gated on ETHFI holdingscashback paid in the ETHFI token
Gnosis Pay"custom pricing"it sells the rails, not the card
Phantomnone foundmonetised on swaps, not spend
Tuyononeand it pays money out via Buy Now Pay Maybe

Five levers exist in this category: charge a subscription, fund rewards with a token, sell infrastructure, monetise swap flow, or already own the wallet. Tuyo has picked none of them and runs the highest-cost promotion in the category.

Traction

Onchain figures read from Base mainnet on 2026-09-17. These are the best traction data anyone outside the company has, because Tuyo publishes no revenue, no deposits, no volume and no funded-account count.
MeasureValue
Card collateral accounts ever created9,000, first 2025-02-25. A floor, not a ceiling (enumeration rate-limited at 2026-09-14)
Median card collateral balance$0.43. Median among funded accounts $2.22. Mean $54.40, p90 $71.02
Accounts holding $100 or more8.9 percent, roughly 800 real card users
Earn, USDC vault$375,479.72 (confirmed by direct call). 15 user accounts hold 90.7%, top holder 40%
Earn, ETH vault0.1816 WETH, 8 holders. Dead
Idle USDC in user walletsonly 2.0% of sampled accounts hold any. Roughly $242k extrapolated from 15 observations, order of magnitude only
Total user assets visible on Baseroughly $1.1M, about $120 per card account
Global iOS ratings428 across 26 storefronts, 4.38 US average. Spain is #2 at 72, against a 30% US share
Android320 ratings at 3.98, 64 of them one star (20%). 10,000+ install band, 37,993 inferred from the page data array
X followers14,300, and +276 in the three and a half months to 2026-09-15 after +12,000 in the prior year
LinkedIn followers827. The lowest of any live company in the competitor set (Gnosis Pay 2,431, Bleap 6,377, Baanx 6,423)
Discord / Telegram / Redditnone found. Unusual for a company running numbered reward seasons toward a token event
Company claim"Join 50,000+ people using Tuyo", unaudited, undefined, and contradicted by a stale "30,000+" on the same page
Revenuenone published, none found

The curve is points farming, not a business curve

MonthNew card accountsCumulativeNote
2025-02 to 2025-093 to 104/mo349Card launched quietly and did almost nothing for eight months
2025-10313662
2025-111,3331,995Lands exactly on the start of reward Season 1 (2025-11-01)
2025-129372,932
2026-01 to 2026-03459, 328, 2663,985Three declining months
2026-041194,104Collapse
2026-051,4825,586Web traffic also peaks at 144,800, 57x the February trough. Cause unidentified
2026-06 to 2026-07587, 8877,060Decays two thirds within three months
2026-081,4808,540
2026-09 (to 09-14)4609,000

Growth is spiky, not compounding. Three spike months and troughs between them. That is the signature of incentive-driven acquisition, not organic pull. Two thirds of card accounts have a nonzero balance and half of those have less than fifty cents. These are accounts that were opened once and abandoned.

Two further tells against organic pull. Spain is 17% of global iOS ratings against roughly 1% of global consumer app spend, and the CEO is based in Spain, so the base reads as founder network. And 428 lifetime ratings from a product released 2024-09-20 has not compounded in two years, while Plasma One launched 2026-04-13 and reached 371 in five months by attaching to a funded chain with a token narrative.

The money question

VERIFIED There is no round

CheckResult
Harmonic funding_total$0.00
Harmonic num_funding_rounds0
Harmonic investors[]
Harmonic valuation / last_funding_atnull / null
Harmonic currently_raisingnull
Harmonic funding_attribute_null_statusEXISTS_BUT_UNDISCLOSED (a model inference, not an observation)
SEC EDGAR full text "Tuyo Inc" / "Tuyo, Inc."0 hits each
SEC EDGAR company search, Form D"No matching companies"
Tracxn"Tuyo has not raised any funding rounds yet"
Transpose Platform own portfolio page (~900 companies)Tuyo absent

Two independent databases, one regulator and the alleged lead investor's own disclosure all say the same thing. The one named investor claim does not survive contact.

Contamination trap. A web search for Tuyo funding surfaces "$4M from 1 round on Oct 31, 2012" with a $5.03M post-money. That is a different company. The Tracxn page carrying it is for lomioestuyo.com, and the date predates Tuyo Inc.'s 2023-09 founding by eleven years. Anyone quoting a $4M raise for Tuyo is quoting the wrong company.

THE ANSWER The financing instrument is a token

From tuyo.com/faq and tuyo.com/rewards, both retrieved 2026-09-17:

There is no contradiction with "TUYOs are not a cryptocurrency token." Both are true: TUYOs are non-transferable points today and the accounting ledger for a token allocation tomorrow.

This reframes the traction. The November 2025 spike of 1,333 against 313 the month before lands exactly on the start of Season 1. Season 3 has run for eight months with no TGE. A material share of the 9,000 accounts and of the $375,480 in Earn is airdrop farming, which is consistent with a $0.43 median collateral balance and 15 addresses holding 91% of Earn.

Ranked explanations for the $3M to $5M plausibly spent

Headcount-derived estimate, not a sourced figure. Headcount went 5 to 13 to 11 over two years, mostly Spain with some US, against a posted US band of $120K to $200K for iOS.
  1. Founder capital. Most likely. Fits every observable: no Form D, no Harmonic round, no investor claiming the company, no announcement, and no pressure to raise while posting US market salaries. Izquierdo's 2017 founder allocation vested around 2019 and was lawfully his. No direct evidence of his holdings exists and none is invented here.
  2. An undisclosed private round. Plausible, uncorroborated. A Reg S structure sold only to non-US persons, or a token warrant rather than equity, files no Form D and is consistent with two Spanish-speaking founders and a Delaware entity.
  3. A token sale already done. Ruled out on the public record. No TUYO token trades on any chain (DexScreener, all chains, 2026-09-17). A private SAFT would not be visible and cannot be excluded.
  4. Revenue. Real but not covering burn. Accrued uncollected Earn fees across both vaults are 1,302 USDC and 0.0022 WETH. That is the entire uncollected Earn revenue, and it sizes the business honestly.

BRAND DAMAGE ALREADY ACCRUING 24 impostor TUYO tokens on Base

Tuyo is unambiguous: "TUYOs are not tradable nor transferable... Anyone who sells TUYOs might be trying to scam you." Searching Base returns roughly 24 tokens carrying the TUYO ticker or the Tuyo name. The three largest hold 5,676, 3,427 and 3,353 holders from three mutually unrelated creator addresses, none matching Tuyo's deployer or admin. Over 12,000 holder positions sit across the five largest fakes. Three separate Base tokens are literally named with Tuyo's own truncated referral message, so someone is farming users who paste the referral text.

Tuyo publishes no canonical contract address list anywhere, and it has announced a TGE. That is the single cheapest thing it could do about this, and it has not done it. The prior Daxos read of "wrong or premature" resolves to premature, and being actively front-run.

The six-part Base decomposition

Each part scored 0 to 8. 4 is an adequate median seed company, 6 or better is genuinely good.
PartScoreEvidence
1. Market and competition2.5 The lane has produced no standalone venture outcome. The recurring cause of death is partner failure rather than competition: WaveCrest ended 500,000 Wirex cards in one second, Juno died from Wyre then Synapse and Evolve, Binance could not keep an EEA card alive. Gnosis Pay, the only company to ship this exact bundle to consumers first, quit consumer for white-label and its whole network did $131M of spend in 2025. The competitive entry is from above and uses Tuyo's own supplier: Phantom Cash, spring 2026, Bridge Ventures LLC as Program Manager, $3.0B valuation, 305x the app base. Above 1 because the TAM for stablecoin spending is real and capital is flowing (KAST $600M, RedotPay $194M). Well below 4 because every documented winner sits in one of three buckets Tuyo is not in.
2. Product and wedge4.0 They shipped something genuinely hard. Self-custody plus Bridge fiat rails plus a Rain Visa card plus Aave yield, in one app on two platforms, from eleven people, with a fast release cadence and a 4.38 iOS average. The architecture is real and deployed, and the help documentation is more candid than the category norm. Against that: the wedge is a cash subsidy with no defensive value, Tuyo owns none of its four legs, "curated strategies" is one Aave wrapper with two of four advertised assets having no vehicle at all, and the central claim fails at the card layer where a counterparty can collect without a user signature under one EOA. Net median: real execution, no defensibility, and the headline claim does not survive an onchain read.
3. Traction1.5 Three years old, two years post-launch. 9,000 card accounts with a $0.43 median balance, roughly 800 that look like real users, $1.1M of total user assets, an Earn book of $375,480 held 90.7% by 15 addresses, and no revenue. X growth has stopped: +276 in three and a half months after +12,000 in a year. The curve is seasonal points farming timed to reward seasons, not a business curve. Above 0 because 9,000 accounts and roughly 38,000 Android installs in eleven months are real, and $375k is money people actually deposited.
4. Business model and unit economics1.0 The 25 bps fee exempts stablecoin trades and bridging and USD card transactions are free, so the flagship flow generates exactly one revenue line. That line needs $100M of deposits to produce $1M and currently sits on $375,480. The flagship feature is a negative revenue line with no disclosed cap that breaks even at one transaction in 135, where both settings of the parameter are bad. Realized Earn yield is 3.07% against an advertised 11%, so the acquisition promise is not deliverable from the actual strategy. Net ARPU of about $39 closes paid acquisition. Above 0 because the 10% fee is real, enforced in contract and verifiable, which I confirmed.
5. Team4.5 Izquierdo's 940 commits to aragonOS against 135 for the next contributor is the strongest single piece of evidence in the file and it cannot be manufactured. His Swift and Go background (Taylor 923 stars, blockchain 847) is unusually well matched to an iOS-first wallet, and Tuyo deliberately does not build the hard regulated parts, so two to four good engineers is a defensible shape. Against that: engineering headcount is 2 and fell from 3 last month, total headcount fell 13 to 11, three engineering reqs are open with the Founding Engineer role unfilled for 167 days, there is no CTO, five of eleven staff are unnamed, and he has zero commits in aragon/osx, the successor that actually survives. One completed cycle, in infrastructure sold to developers, ending in a return of capital, with fifteen months as CEO. No consumer operating experience at all, which is precisely the job here.
6. Founder trust, disclosure, regulatory posture3.0 Credit where it is earned. The first-party "we are not a bank, exchange or custodian" disclosure is honest and repeated. The technical documentation discloses the collateral mechanics, publishes the exact derivation path, admits its own exit route was only simulated, and tells users not to paste seed phrases into AI conversations. The Earn disclosures are better than BlockFi's or Celsius's ever were. The vault upgrade right has been burned. No enforcement, no litigation and no complaint exists against the company or either founder, and that negative was established by running the checks (32,462 FinCEN records across 59 jurisdictions, EDGAR full text, CourtListener, NYDFS, press) rather than assumed. Against that: three marketing-versus-contract contradictions in one sweep, a two-year-stale privacy policy at a company processing EEA KYC data, a 3.5x overclaim on the headline yield, the wrong Bridge entity named to consumers, an unpublished excluded-state list on the flagship feature, no audit, no bug bounty, no security.txt, no canonical contract addresses while 24 impostor tokens run ahead of an announced TGE, and a virtual mailbox as the address of record in the consumer contract.
Mean2.75 Adjusted to 2.50, minus 0.25. Stated and reversible: the traction and business-model scores are the same fragility counted twice and they interact worse than they average, because the single recurring revenue line is concentrated in 15 depositors. A reader who declines the adjustment lands at Base 2.75, COMPANY 4.75. Nothing else in the rating moves.

For Daxos: price and verdict

DAXOS FIT 2.0 / 10. No cheque. There is nothing to buy.

The binding fact is mechanical, not judgmental. Harmonic records currently_raising null and 0 rounds. There is no Form D. No investor claims the company and the one named claim was refuted against the alleged investor's own portfolio page. A fund cannot underwrite a company it cannot buy, and Daxos writes $100k to $500k into rounds that exist.

Worse for an equity buyer, the capital formation instrument appears to be a token. The company has publicly committed to a TGE in 2026, structured its entire rewards programme as numbered pre-TGE seasons counting down to it, told users they are owners, and promised at least 20% of supply to users and community. If that is the real capital event, an equity cheque has a structural problem: value accrues to token holders, and 20% of supply is committed to users before any investor allocation exists. Whether equity participates pro rata in the token is not discoverable from outside and it determines whether Tuyo is investable by Daxos at all.

Three realistic paths, in descending plausibility: a pre-TGE token instrument or SAFT, which is a different instrument with different risk, jurisdiction exposure and downside than equity; buying on market after the TGE, which is trading and carries no allocation advantage; or a priced equity round that does not currently exist.

Price, if a priced seed ever appeared

No equity price is defensible without first seeing the token and equity split. The honest ceiling is single-digit millions post. The anchor is Bleap, which Harmonic records at $8,300,000 raised across 3 rounds at SEED with 12x Tuyo's web traffic, a comparable app base, a real SEO acquisition engine and its own MiCA licence. Tuyo has less of everything except the founder, and rents the layer Bleap owns.

So not above a $6M to $8M post, and only with a pro-rata token warrant attached. For context on why a higher number cannot be reasoned into: KAST cleared $90M at a $600M valuation on 1,172 app ratings, so the category price signal is loose enough that a founder could plausibly ask far more. That is a reason to be more careful, not less.

VERDICT: MEET. One hour, relationship and information, explicitly not a cheque.

The justification is narrow and I want it stated so nobody misreads it. No answer to any question below moves Base above roughly 3.5, because the market, the model and the measured traction are unchanged by anything Izquierdo can say. The meeting is worth taking because five specific factual questions are answerable only by him, because the founder is reachable at j@tuyo.com (Harmonic primary_email, person 132850), and because Daxos's edge in this category is founder relationships rather than allocation. If the answer to question 1 is "equity does not participate in the token," this converts to PASS the same day.

  1. What is the split between equity and token, has any token supply already been allocated, to whom, at what price, under what jurisdiction and lockup, and does equity carry a pro-rata token warrant?
  2. Is BNPM genuinely randomised, how is the state exclusion list determined, and why is it not published?
  3. 0xc87D11AE8c11a4c5a7BA3Ea48827bFFaecae1920 is a single EOA that owns the collateral controller and both Earn vaults, can set the counterparty and the collect whitelist across all 9,000 user accounts, and can set the performance fee to 100%. What is the key custody arrangement and is a multisig planned?
  4. The FAQ says "No lock-ups, no exceptions" and CollateralAccount has a 3 day cooldown, a counterparty co-signature on normal release and a counterparty collect needing no user signature. Which describes a card balance, and will the FAQ be corrected? Relatedly, what does "up to 11% APY" measure when the realized net figure is 3.07% over 90 days?
  5. Has any capital been raised to date in any form from anyone, and if so why is there no Form D? Plus the cheap one: what is the state of incorporation, and can you send the good-standing certificate?

Conditions to reopen or escalate

A meeting is warranted now. A process requires all of the first four. A cheque requires all six.

#ConditionTest
1Instrument existsHarmonic records an actual round, or a term sheet is in hand. Absent this, nothing else matters.
2Equity participates in the tokenA pro-rata token warrant attached to the equity, in writing, with the full supply allocation table disclosed including what is already committed beyond the promised 20% to users
3Price at or below $8M postAnchored to Bleap at $8.3M raised with its own MiCA licence and 12x the traffic
4The three contradictions fixedVerifiable on the live site: the FAQ lock-up claim corrected to describe the collateral mechanics, the BNPM excluded-state list published, and either the "up to 11% APY" figure substantiated or the headline brought to the realized number. These cost an afternoon each, so failure to do them after being asked is itself the answer.
5Admin key custody resolvedController and both vaults moved to a multisig, verifiable onchain at 0xb44eC751...D2204 and the two vault addresses
6Traction that is not points farmingEarn book above $5M with no single holder above 15%, or 5,000 collateral accounts holding $100 or more (today roughly 800), sustained for two quarters across a TGE rather than into one

Additional triggers that would reopen this file on their own: a Tuyo-authored contract audit published; a second fiat or issuing partner signed, which removes the single points of failure; a licence application filed anywhere in Tuyo's own name; or Rain or Bridge terminating, which would end the file rather than reopen it.

What would close it permanently: equity confirmed not to participate in the token; a raise above $15M, which trips the house hard filter; or any enforcement action on BNPM or Earn.

What could not be checked

Absence of a finding is a finding. These are the gaps, with the checks that were run.

Appendix: house calibration

Labelled calibration only. Fintech and crypto deals exclusively. The rating above was derived from Tuyo's own market and is not anchored on anything in this table.
House referenceScoreWhere Tuyo sits against it
Cero (cero.finance), 2026-07-302.0 company / 1.5 fit, KILL The closest structural comparable Daxos has rated: a crypto card on stablecoin rails. Tuyo is clearly and correctly above it. Cero was pre-launch with a BVI shell, a $100 liability cap, US residents excluded, nothing issued, a rented offshore lottery sold as "$1M upside" and an unverifiable CEO. Tuyo has a shipped product on two platforms, 9,000 onchain accounts, named licensed partners, a verifiable founder and no adverse record. The 2.5 point gap is the distance between a live hard build and a marketing shell.
Unruggable, 2026-08-18 hackathon sweep6.5 company / 7.5 fit A self-custody company rated two points above Tuyo, which is instructive. Solana hardware wallet, Colosseum double grand champion, initial run sold out, roughly $250K in. It sells a product for money to people who demonstrably want it. Tuyo rents two regulated rails and pays users to spend. The gap is the business model, not the custody model.
Apyx, canonical pipeline9.0 The house fintech ceiling. Dividend stablecoin on DATs, Anduril and Erebor founders, DFDV-backed. Names the distance: Tuyo has one of the three things (a credible technical founder) and neither of the others (an instrument to buy, a monetisable structure).
Xverse, active portfolioinvested A self-custodial crypto wallet Daxos actually wrote into, so the house is not structurally against this category. The difference is that Xverse is a Bitcoin-ecosystem wallet with a user base, not a consumer money app renting a card and a fiat rail and subsidising spend.
HOOKR, 2026-08-245.5 ticker, explicitly not an equity deal The house precedent for "the interesting instrument here is a token, not equity, so do not mix the scores." Tuyo may end up in exactly that position if the 2026 TGE lands and the equity never prices.
Sidekick, 2026-07-305.5 company / 3.5 fit, PASS A useful floor test for the fit number. Sidekick had a real $500K pre-seed with YC as sole investor, so there was something to buy, and still rated 3.5 for fit on thin traction. Tuyo has better founder evidence and a harder product, and no instrument at all. Hence 2.0.

Distribution placement. At 4.50 company, Tuyo sits in the band the house tiering heuristic calls "pass, or micro check on relationship." The Daxos-fit number of 2.0 is the one that governs the action, and it says no cheque.

Daxos internal, do not distribute. Sources: Harmonic API (company 63511715 plus the competitor set) · Base mainnet via mainnet.base.org and base.blockscout.com · SEC EDGAR full text and company search · FinCEN MSB register (59 jurisdictions, 32,462 records) · CourtListener RECAP · NYDFS · iTunes lookup and RSS review APIs · Google Play · tuyo.com, help.tuyo.com and about.tuyo.com via the Notion API · bridge.xyz and rain.xyz legal pages · Federal Reserve Reg II data · Regulation (EU) 2015/751. Workstreams: out/product.md, out/regulatory.md, out/market.md, out/team.md. Prior Daxos research: /home/lakeman/aragon/ARAGON-FOUNDERS.md, /home/lakeman/aragon/ARAGON-TREASURY.md. Markdown: TUYO-DD.md. Review log: ~/Documents/claude-conversations/dataroom-reviews/2026-09-17-tuyo-dd-review.md.