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Using the cyberCORPs apps

This part of the documentation is for the people who use the MetaLeX apps — founders, officers, and investors. No code: just what each app is for and how to use it.

If you want to understand the machinery beneath the apps — what a cyberCORP, a cyberCERT, or a cyberSCRIP actually is, and why the design works the way it does — that is Part 1, Protocol. Each guide here links into it at the relevant points; see How the apps relate to the protocol below.

The apps, and where they live

The products run as separate apps, each on its own subdomain. Your company and the securities it issues are shared across them — set things up once and they appear everywhere.

App Address What you do there
cyberCORPs app cybercorps.metalex.tech Create your company; issue and manage its securities, register of holders, and scrip. Home of the Mainframe.
cyberRAISE cyberraise.metalex.tech Run fundraising rounds, and invest in them. Rounds are created and configured here.
ACE ace.metalex.tech Token-community fundraising — raises denominated in a community token. Currently early-access.
LeXcheX lexchex.metalex.tech Prove accredited-investor status.
Your profile profile.metalex.tech Your MetaLeX identity, accreditation status, and signing delegation.

Two more surfaces are covered separately:

  • MetaDAO — a one-step entity-formation page for tokens launched via MetaDAO.
  • cyberSign — standalone agreement signing, on MetaLeX's main app at app.metalex.tech.

Which app do I need? Setting up or running a company → the cyberCORPs app. Raising money, or investing in a raise → cyberRAISE. A token community converting to equity → ACE. Getting accredited → LeXcheX. Editing your identity → your profile.

Before you start: what you need

  1. A web3 wallet — a browser wallet such as MetaMask or Rabby. The apps connect to it to read your holdings and ask you to sign. A Safe multisig is supported and recommended for company treasuries.
  2. A little ETH for gas — actions that change onchain state are transactions and cost a small network fee. cyberCORPs run on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base; you need gas on whichever network the entity uses.
  3. A desktop browser for company setup — creating a cyberCORP and a round are desktop-only flows.
  4. Nothing else — there is no separate account. Your wallet is your identity.

Signing in

The apps connect to your wallet automatically. For actions that need a verified session — managing a company, editing your profile, encrypting data — you complete a one-time Authenticate step: you sign a short Sign-In With Ethereum message. This signature is free — not a transaction, no gas.

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

Two kinds of “sign”

You'll be asked to sign two different things:

  • A message signature — free, instant, no gas. Authenticating, agreeing to a legal document, expressing interest in a round.
  • A transaction — costs gas, confirms in a few seconds. Deploying a company, issuing a security, funding a round, closing a round.

Your wallet always tells you which one it is before you approve. Each app guide notes which steps are which.

A note on terms

  • A cyberCORP is your company, represented onchain.
  • A cyberCERT is a certificate — one entry on the company's register of holders (a share position, a SAFE, an option, etc.).
  • A cyberSCRIP is the tradable, fungible form of a security.
  • An EOI (Expression of Interest) is an investor's signed offer to invest in a round.

The full Glossary has the rest.

How the apps relate to the protocol

The apps are front ends over the cyberCORPs smart-contract protocol. Every meaningful button is a call to a contract; nothing important happens in a database that the chain doesn't already record.

  • When you deploy a cyberCORP, the app calls the protocol's factory, which deploys your company's contracts. The chain becomes your company's official register — not a copy of one. This is the core idea of the protocol: see Constitutive vs. pointer tokenization.
  • When you issue a security, the app mints a cyberCERT — an entry on that register.
  • When you scripify, the app deploys a cyberSCRIP — the same security in fungible form. Why two forms exist is explained in The dual-token model.

Throughout these guides, “Under the hood” boxes link the action you're taking to the protocol contract behind it. You never need to read Part 1 to use the apps — but if you want to know exactly what you are signing, it is all there.

A good starting point for the protocol side is the Protocol welcome / overview and the tutorial Incorporate a cyberCORP.