How We, Without a "Company," Serve a Global Audience

We are a three-person "guerilla" development team, spread across three different corners of the world—I'm in Tokyo, one partner is in Berlin, and the other is in Buenos Aires. Together, we develop and maintain a paid plugin for an open-source project. We don't have a registered company; we are simply a proto-DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) brought together by a shared ideal.

Our customers are developers worldwide who use this open-source software. But how to collect payments from them became a huge problem. Without a common legal entity, it was impossible to apply for a unified corporate payment account. Should we ask customers to pick one of our three countries and wire money to one of us individually? That was not only unprofessional but would also create complex tax and fund distribution issues.

We needed a "global account" that didn't rely on any national legal entity and could be co-managed by the three of us.

While exploring DAO governance and financial tools, we learned about multi-signature (multi-sig) wallets and decentralized payments. This was exactly what we needed! A multi-sig wallet could be set up to require signatures from at least two of us to move funds, ensuring security and transparency.

For the payment collection end, we chose BlockATM. Because it's completely "No KYC," we didn't need to register a shell company just to receive payments. We could directly connect the payment gateway to our multi-sig wallet address. This meant that the USDT paid by our global customers would go directly into our co-managed "treasury," not into any individual's account.

The setup process was incredibly smooth. We generated a multi-sig wallet address and configured it in the BlockATM backend. When customers paid, the funds went directly to this shared address. Every week, based on our workload, we would authorize a multi-sig transaction to distribute the funds to our respective personal wallets.

This solution perfectly solved our dilemma. It gave our loose, multinational "guerilla team" a professional, secure, and efficient global financial system. We don't need to be bound by the traditional organizational form of a "company" to operate like a formal entity, serving users worldwide. It was the "No KYC" decentralized tools that made our new way of collaboration possible.