Understanding Blocksquare’s Marketplace Whitelabel Licensing Options

Blocksquare’s Marketplace Whitelabel Solution gives you a ready-made, fully branded marketplace built on Blocksquare’s tokenization protocol. You operate under your own brand. Your investors interact with your platform. Behind the scenes, the infrastructure is powered by Blocksquare. This article explains the different pricing options available for marketplace licensing and how to think about them from a business perspective.

What the Marketplace Whitelabel Solution Includes

The marketplace platform is more than a website template. It includes:

• Integrated real estate tokenization protocol
• Investor onboarding and account management
• Primary issuance functionality
• Secondary marketplace capabilities
• Admin dashboard for asset and investor oversight
• Smart contract infrastructure
• Ongoing protocol support

You are not buying software to install. You are licensing access to infrastructure that supports compliant tokenized real estate offerings.

The solution is designed for Certified Partners who want to operate their own marketplace under their own brand.

Licensing Options: How Pricing Is Structured

Blocksquare’s pricing model combines a software license with usage-based protocol fees.

Below are the core components marketplace operators should understand.

1. Software License: Your Entry Point

To operate a Blocksquare marketplace, you first acquire a software license.

One-Time License A one-time payment grants lifetime access to the infrastructure.

Installment Plans Installment plans allow operators to spread payments over time. Importantly, installment plans still result in the full license being paid. They reduce upfront pressure but do not reduce the total obligation. The license is mandatory to operate a Blocksquare marketplace.

2. Pay-As-You-Grow Protocol Fees

After licensing, pricing shifts to usage-based protocol fees. These are activity-driven and scale with how much you use the infrastructure.

They include:

Asset Tokenization Fees Charged each time a property is tokenized.

Post-Offering Management Fees Ongoing protocol costs per active asset after issuance. These fees apply regardless of how you paid for the license.

3. Partner Discounts via sBST Staking

Blocksquare offers a discount program for marketplace operators who stake BST (sBST).

These discounts can apply to:

• Software license pricing

• Asset tokenization fees

• Post-offering protocol fees

Discount tiers scale based on the amount of sBST staked, up to a maximum 100% discount level. As long as the required staking level is maintained, the corresponding discount remains active. This mechanism gives operators flexibility in how they structure their overall cost of operating a marketplace.

4. Transaction Fees for Secondary Market Trades

Secondary market transaction fees operate differently from license and tokenization pricing.

Every time tokens are traded on the secondary market, a protocol-level transaction fee applies.

These transaction fees always accrue.

They are not eliminated through staking discounts. Even operators at the highest discount tier remain subject to secondary market transaction fees.

This is an important structural distinction:

• License and tokenization costs can be reduced through staking.

• Secondary market transaction fees remain active and are part of the core protocol economics.

As a marketplace operator, you may also set your own trading fees on top of the protocol fee. However, the underlying protocol transaction fee always applies to each trade. For operators planning to build active secondary liquidity, these transaction fees should be factored into long-term revenue modeling.

5. Oceanpoint Launchpad: Marketplace Pools

Oceanpoint Launchpad, also known as Marketplace Pools, was built as a community-backed mechanism to support new marketplace operators.

During strong market cycles, staking enough BST individually to qualify for higher discount tiers can become financially demanding. The Launchpad allows the community to collectively pledge sBST toward a specific marketplace operator’s launch.

If the pool maintains the required staking threshold, the operator can access discounted licensing and protocol pricing enabled by that collective staking.

This mechanism functions similarly to a Kickstarter model within the ecosystem. Community members support marketplace operators they want to see launched, helping them secure discounted access to infrastructure.

The software license remains mandatory. Launchpad participation simply provides an alternative pathway to achieve discount eligibility through collective support.

Choosing the Right Path

When evaluating Blocksquare’s marketplace licensing model, consider:

• How many assets you plan to tokenize
• Whether you intend to build an active secondary market
• Your preferred capital structure
• Whether you plan to pursue staking discounts individually or through ecosystem support

The pricing model is layered:

• License access
• Tokenization and post-offering protocol fees
• Secondary market transaction fees
• Optional discount pathways through staking

Understanding how these components interact is key to building a sustainable marketplace strategy.

Final Perspective

Blocksquare’s marketplace whitelabel pricing is structured to balance infrastructure access with protocol usage.

The license grants access. Tokenization and asset management create usage-based costs. Secondary trading always carries protocol transaction fees. Staking and Launchpad mechanisms provide structured discount pathways.

For B2B operators, the focus should not only be on the license price. It should be on how issuance strategy, asset pipeline, and secondary liquidity combine into a scalable, long-term business model.