From Real Estate to Any Asset: Why Binaryx Is Opening a New Kind of Deal

Last year, a partner at Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the world, invited Binaryx into Fin Accelerate: its Silicon Valley program that connects promising financial platforms to institutional deal flow.

Fin Accelerate isn't a pitch competition. It's access. The kind of deal flow normally reserved for venture funds, family offices and accredited-investor networks, priced and closed quietly before most people ever hear the company's name in the news. For a platform known for digitizing apartments in Bali and villas in Turkey, that's an unusual room to be invited into. It's also the moment our name has been pointing at since day one.

Inside Fin Accelerate: a working session on financing documentation, the exact legal plumbing behind private rounds.

How we got here

Binaryx was never meant to be just a real estate company. The name is the mission: Binary, the language of everything digital, and X, the variable that can be anything. Digital ownership of any asset. We founded the company in 2019 to build exactly that, starting with small and medium businesses. The hard part turned out to be law, not technology. In 2022 we found the legal framework the idea needed: real, enforceable ownership under US law, not a synthetic wrapper. Real estate became the first asset class to prove it, and in 2023 we launched the Binaryx real estate platform.

Pitching the Binaryx any-asset vision during the program.

Three years later, the results are the reason the Jones Day conversation happened at all: more than $8.5M invested, 2,500+ investors from 20+ countries, 37 properties in Bali and Turkey with Montenegro next in the pipeline. An average historical rental yield of 11.04%, an average historical ROI of 17.12%, and a 4.7/5 rating on Trustpilot.

Under it all sits the same legal backbone: every property is held in its own Wyoming DAO LLC, the smart contracts are independently audited at 9.8/10 by Blaize.Studio, and every investor passes KYC. Quiet, unglamorous rigor. It's what gets noticed by people who vet counterparties for a living.

And our investors kept telling us the same thing: they didn't just want more real estate. They wanted the same model, with its low minimums, real legal structure and a way out, applied to more of the things worth owning.

Why pre-IPO, why now

Companies stay private much longer than they used to. The median age at IPO has roughly tripled since 1999, from about 4 years to about 12, and median IPO valuations are up 312%. The US has about half as many public companies as in 1996.

The value moved private. "Unicorns" grew from 39 in 2013 to more than 1,400 today, worth about $7.4T combined, a 24x jump in a decade. Secondary trading of private shares is up 110% year over year, according to Forge Global. Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab have both bought into pre-IPO venues. This has stopped being a niche and started becoming market infrastructure.

Amazon went public in 1997 at a $438M valuation; investors who held on caught a run of roughly 220,000%. Stories like that are rarer now, because the big re-rating increasingly happens before the listing, in rounds the public never sees.

Pre-IPO investing is how you get in before that door closes. Until now, it meant a $5,000–$50,000+ check, accredited-investor status, and years of lockup with no way out. Expensive, exclusive, illiquid: the exact problem real estate had when we started Binaryx. So we're solving it again, at a bigger scale.

Binaryx is becoming an any-asset platform

Binaryx is expanding beyond tokenized real estate into what the name always promised: an ecosystem for digital ownership, open to everyone. First up: pre-IPO shares of late-stage private companies. The mechanics don't change. Minimums in the hundreds of dollars, not tens of thousands. A dedicated DAO LLC with the paperwork published, not taken on faith. And liquidity through our P2P marketplace, so an allocation isn't automatically a decade-long lockup.

Only the asset underneath changes. Real estate proved the model; pre-IPO is the next door we're opening with it, with the connections we built inside Jones Day's Fin Accelerate as the institutional backbone.

Real estate proved our approach: blockchain technology used for full transparency, full accountability and full honesty with our investors. Tokenization of real-world assets isn't a theory anymore. It works, and people invest through it every day. On that foundation, it's time to scale. Pre-IPO is where the biggest opportunities live today, and it's been locked behind $50,000 minimums and accredited-investor status for too long. We're not changing what Binaryx is. We're opening that same door, from $250 instead of $50,000, to more of what matters.

– Oleg Kurchenko, Co-founder & CEO of Binaryx

The first deal is already in motion

We're not sharing the name or the numbers yet. Full terms, documentation and legal detail are coming in a dedicated announcement very soon. What matters today is simpler: it's real, it's close, and it's the first of an ongoing series.

What we can say: this deal exists because of the connections we made inside Fin Accelerate. The program put us in the room with operators, allocators and people from some of the biggest venture firms, a16z among them. Relationships like that are how a platform sources institutional-grade deals for its investors, and they turned into our first allocation: one of the most closely watched private technology companies in the world, backed by top venture names, led by a founder known for turning ambitious ideas into category-defining companies. Access like that isn't bought. It's earned, and the year inside Fin Accelerate did that work.

The Fin Accelerate cohort, empowered by Jones Day. These are the rooms where deals like our first one come from.

And plainly, because it's core to how we operate: pre-IPO investing is high-risk and illiquid. Roughly 9 out of 10 late-stage private companies never reach an IPO or a sale. Timelines run in years, not months. Don't invest money you can't afford to lock up or lose.

What to do next

The next post will name the company and lay out the full terms: entry valuation, minimums, fees, and an honest look at the risks next to the upside. To be first in line, create your Binaryx account and complete KYC now. It takes a few minutes, and verified investors will be able to act the moment the deal opens.

Real estate to any asset. $250, not $50,000. Binary for digital, X for anything. The first deal is next.