OffshoreGuy
Changelog

What we shipped.

Weekly cadence. Every entry is real. No marketing language. Repo: github.com/Bitcitizen34/offshoreguy.

current build: 41a8fda · main · deployed 2026-07-08

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Wyoming LLC is the flagship formation

The Wyoming LLC is now the platform flagship at $189 all-in.

Why: the Wyoming LLC is the formation most non-resident founders actually want, so it leads the catalog instead of the $13,999 Marshall Islands DAO LLC (which remains the on-chain governance hero of the DAO shelf, just not the platform flagship).

  • Wyoming LLC: $189 all-in. The base produces a complete, working LLC: state filing, first-year registered agent, EIN packet (no SSN required), and a standard Operating Agreement.
  • New optional upsell, Custom Articles & Operating Agreement ($99): bespoke, statute-drafted documents for multi-member splits, manager-managed governance, vesting, and transfer restrictions. The base ships standard templates; this upgrades them.
  • The Marshall Islands DAO LLC is no longer the platform flagship; it stays in the catalog as the on-chain governance hero and the sovereign-statute choice for DAOs.
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Chat is now support-only

Felix, the chat assistant, is now support-only and is no longer presented as a way to form a company.

Why: a formation is filed with each jurisdiction's registry and takes business days, so there was never a real "form by chat" path. Felix now answers questions about jurisdictions, products, pricing, KYC, banking, and payments, and points you to the right place to act.

  • Retired the dedicated "form by chat" page and the in-chat formation tools.
  • The floating chat stays as a support assistant: it recommends in prose, then hands off to the jurisdiction quiz, the product pages, and checkout.
  • The quiz and product pages now carry the recommend, price, and order flow.
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Payment gateway with 5% BitSettle discount; real order dashboards

Checkout now opens with an explicit payment choice, and both sides of the counter get real order views.

Payment gateway:

  • Two options at checkout: BitSettle (BTC on-chain, Lightning, USDT) at 5% off, or Stripe (card and ACH) as a secondary rail, subject to availability.
  • The 5% Bitcoin discount is the single published discount for paying in BTC, Lightning, or USDT. The 60-minute rate lock still applies.

Customer dashboard:

  • The order detail page is now real: live status timeline (Created through Delivered, including the partner-selection step), payment summary with the discount shown, entity progress, and drafted-document list. It previously rendered placeholder data.

Operator dashboard:

  • New admin-only view of all customer orders: status filters, totals, collected revenue, customer, payment method, and price. Gated to the operator account; internal economics never appear on customer surfaces.
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Catalog audit: honest renewal pricing, supply redundancy, five new SKUs

Full-catalog audit executed end to end: pricing on both revenue streams, supply redundancy, and the market-gap expansion.

Honest renewal pricing, now CI-enforced:

  • Every SKU now carries renewal pricing held to the same sustainable standard as Year-1, enforced by a test suite. Five renewals were repriced for honest, all-in renewals: Bermuda $2,995 to $4,199/yr, Delaware C-Corp $325 to $389/yr, Panama Foundation $899 to $999/yr, Wyoming LLC $89 to $139/yr, Wyoming DAO LLC $129 to $139/yr.
  • Cyprus Ltd repriced $2,099 to $2,249, priced all-in.
  • UK Ltd retail unchanged at $149; renewal accounts for the May 2024 Companies House fee increase.

Supply redundancy: every outsourced SKU now has more than one provider on file, enforced by tests with a documented-exception list (the Marshall Islands DAO route is a statutory single-provider track; EIN and Banking Introduction are fulfilled in-house).

Five new SKUs (44 to 49):

  • Cayman Foundation Company $8,999: the ownerless wrapper most major DAOs use, through a licensed Cayman agent.
  • Wyoming DUNA $599: the 2024 nonprofit DAO statute. The DAO shelf now runs DUNA + DAO LLC + Marshall Islands DAO LLC.
  • Delaware LLC $239: the most-requested US entity we did not sell. Honest renewal at $499/yr because Delaware charges a flat $300 franchise tax.
  • Banking Introduction $799: matched banking rails + a compliance-ready application file. Introductions and preparation, never a guarantee.
  • UAE Residence Visa $1,999: the 2-year investor visa attached to your free-zone company, through the same corridor that filed it.
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Blog: two Wyoming field notes; federal BOI guidance corrected to the 2025 domestic exemption

Two new posts, and a correction to stale federal beneficial-ownership copy across the site.

New field notes:

  • "Stop Overthinking Your Wyoming LLC": the boring-best case for a Wyoming LLC and, more usefully, how to operate one like a real company after the filing. The mindset companion to the existing non-resident how-to.
  • "BOI Reporting for Wyoming LLCs in 2026": the honest, current answer. FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule exempts entities formed in the US from Beneficial Ownership Information reporting, so a standard domestic Wyoming LLC generally has no FinCEN filing today. The Wyoming annual report still applies.

Correction: the site previously stated, in a 2025-era blog post and on the Wyoming and New Mexico jurisdiction pages, that federal CTA / BOI reporting "applies to every US LLC." That has not been true since the March 2025 rule. Every such claim is now corrected to the domestic exemption, with the honest caveats: the rule is an interim final rule, not yet finalized, and sits inside ongoing litigation, so it can change. Your registered agent still identifies you, and state-level rules still apply where they exist. Not legal advice.

Blog index now sorts newest-first by date.

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Pricing audit: sustainable, honest pricing; honest DAO framing

Full-catalog pricing audit. Every SKU is now repriced for sustainable, honest pricing.

  • Wyoming LLC $179 to $189 and New Mexico LLC $99 to $119: the two entry-price anchors are repriced for sustainable pricing. New Mexico remains the cheapest legitimate US entity on the menu.
  • Cyprus Ltd: corrected the annual-audit accounting so the mandatory audit sits in the recurring fee, not the formation; retail unchanged at $2,099.
  • Marshall Islands DAO LLC: priced all-in, with no separate fee lines at checkout.
  • Brand voice: scrubbed the forbidden "pass-through" fee wording from product, jurisdiction, and policy copy. All-in pricing is the standard.
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Catalog expansion: Bermuda, El Salvador formations, Curaçao

Three RECOMMEND verdicts from the 2026 missing-jurisdictions research land in production. Four new SKUs across three jurisdictions, each priced all-in.

New SKUs:

  • Bermuda Exempted Company: $12,999 retail via a licensed Bermuda agent. Recurring $2,995/yr covers gov fee + resident representative + Economic Substance Act 2018 compliance handling. Tier-1 reputable; clean on EU and FATF lists. The premium-tier crypto-credentialed wrapper.
  • El Salvador S.A. de C.V.: $2,999 retail via the Bitcitizen 21 CBI sister-brand corridor. Two-shareholder Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable for operators building Latin-American settlement infrastructure.
  • El Salvador SAS: $1,499 retail. Single-founder Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada for solo Bitcoin operators who want the El Salvador positioning without the two-shareholder structure.
  • Curaçao N.V.: $5,999 retail via a licensed Curaçao agent. Niche vertical fit: Bitcoin-native iGaming and crypto-payment operators specifically. CGA iGaming license sold separately.

Why these three, in priority order:

  • Bermuda is the only sovereign that has formally committed to building its national settlement layer on a public blockchain. Circle was the first Class F DABA licensee; Coinbase, Kraken, and STS Digital all hold Class F. The WEF 2026 Circle and Coinbase partnership announcement is the highest-tier government endorsement of Bitcoin-business legitimacy currently available. Bermuda Beneficial Ownership Act 2026 enforcement begins Jun 1, 2026; pre-deadline formations get cleaner BOI verification throughput.
  • El Salvador had a conspicuous gap in our catalog: the jurisdiction was already listed (DASP-referral track) but no formation SKU shipped. CNAD has licensed 70+ Digital Asset Service Providers since 2023; Bitfinex (May 2026 spot + derivatives + securities), Bitget, and Binance all hold DASP licenses; Tether HQ relocated to San Salvador. The brand voice §5.2 already names El Salvador as REPUTABLE; not listing a formation SKU was the gap. The Bitcitizen 21 CBI corridor gives the lowest onboarding friction.
  • Curaçao closes the niche iGaming and crypto-payment vertical. The LOK 2024 reform is the first statutory framework anywhere to name operational, treasury, and player-flow wallets as distinct regulated categories. 87 approved direct iGaming licensees as of Apr 2026; ~30% accept crypto. GRAY tier disclosed honestly: legacy reputation overhang is real and banking acceptance outside the iGaming corridor is mixed.

The catalog expanded again. El Salvador jurisdiction row updated to reflect the active formation track. Bermuda and Curaçao long-form jurisdiction pages shipped with the standard tier-disclosure and case-for / case-against breakdown. Current totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

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Vanuatu IC: EU Annex I disclosure added

Vanuatu was added to EU Annex I on 17 Feb 2026 (Council of the EU update). Our seed-data, product page, and useCase copy still described the jurisdiction as off the EU lists; that's now corrected.

Vanuatu IC (vanuatu-ic, $1,899) remains live with full disclosure: the Annex I status appears in the short description, the product description, and the useCase "less ideal for" block. Buyers self-select. Same disclosure pattern we use for Panama Foundation and Anguilla BC.

For buyers whose banking counterparties treat Annex I as a hard block, the EU-Annex-clean Pacific alternatives are the Samoa IBC and the Marshall Islands DAO LLC. The related-products surface on the Vanuatu page now routes there.

No price change. No partner change. Transparency parity with the two other Annex I jurisdictions in the catalog.

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Panama Foundation + Anguilla BC activated; EU Annex I disclosed honestly

Panama Foundation ($2,499 retail, via a licensed Panama agent) and Anguilla BC ($1,449 retail, via a licensed Anguilla agent) flipped from deferred to active.

Both jurisdictions are on EU Annex I as of Feb 2026 and that's disclosed prominently on every customer surface: product pages, jurisdiction pages, and short descriptions. The brand voice rule we hold ourselves to is "label REPUTABLE / GRAY honestly, never soften," and "every product we list is filed under a sovereign legal framework, we do not hedge on legitimacy." Selling Annex I products with full disclosure is consistent with both rules. Deferring them was more conservative than the brand voice required; reversing.

For buyers whose banking counterparties treat Annex I as a hard block, we route to alternatives: Liechtenstein Foundation (EEA-aligned civil-law foundation) for Panama-style asset protection, and Seychelles / Belize / Samoa IBCs (EU Annex II or clean) for Anguilla-style fast Caribbean BCs.

The catalog expanded again. Current totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

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Catalog expansion: 5 new jurisdictions, 7 new SKUs, 8 new perks

Five European and Indian-Ocean jurisdictions added: Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, and Anguilla. Plus Mauritius Authorised Company activated from the existing seed and a Cook Islands LLC SKU added alongside the existing trust referral.

New formation SKUs, each priced all-in:

  • Cyprus Private Limited: $2,099 retail (15% corp tax post-Pillar Two; IP-Box ~2.5% effective).
  • Liechtenstein Foundation (Stiftung): $11,599 retail (TVTG-aligned, the Panama Foundation alternative).
  • Mauritius Authorised Company: $2,199 retail (off EU + FATF lists since 2022).
  • Cook Islands LLC: $4,699 retail (charging-order moat sized between Nevis and the trust).
  • Gibraltar Non-Resident Ltd: $3,299 retail (pairs directly with Xapo Bank Gibraltar; tightest formation+banking pair on the platform).
  • Isle of Man Ltd (1931 Act): $2,799 retail (0% corp tax for non-financial activities).
  • Anguilla BC: $1,449 retail. EU Annex I disclosed honestly on customer surfaces.

The catalog expanded again. Current totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

Perks portal refresh: 16 existing perks corrected against verified 2026 partner facts. Strike $50 BTC bonus replaced with current $500 fee-free trading. Casa rewritten against Standard ($250/yr) / Premium ($2,100/yr) tier names (Gold tier retired). Tailscale Starter renamed Standard per their 2026 pricing update. Unchained discount sized correctly against the $500 collaborative-vault setup. Mempool fabricated business directory removed (rewritten as self-host deployment guide). Bitcoin Law Review fabricated $5K credit pool removed (rewritten as OffshoreGuy-owned Bitcoin-counsel network). Mullvad re-cast as in-house gift since Mullvad publicly refuses referral programs.

Eight new perks added: Voltage (Lightning hosting, $25 credit), ColdCard ($40 off Mk5 or Q), Foundation Passport Prime ($25 off), Xapo Bank (3-month membership credit), Bull Bitcoin (Canadian onramp, $10 BTC + 0.5% rebate), Relai (Swiss/EU onramp, 0.5% fee discount + 100 CHF/EUR fee-free DCA), Saylor Academy (free Bitcoin Economics specialization, curated curriculum), Hetzner Cloud (€20 credit).

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Phase 2 catalog activation: 23 SKUs flipped live

The remaining Phase 2 catalog goes live. 23 SKUs activated against fresh 2026 research, each priced all-in.

Formations activated: Delaware C-Corp, Wyoming DAO LLC, BVI BC, Belize IBC, Saint Vincent LLC, Samoa IBC, Bahamas IBC, Seychelles Foundation, UK Ltd, Estonia OÜ, Hong Kong Ltd, UAE Free Zone (IFZA, RAKEZ, Meydan), Cayman Exempted (Standard + Magic-Circle), Singapore Pte Ltd.

ATTACH/utility activated: Offshore RA Renewal, ITIN via CAA, Apostille + Good Standing, Form 5472, Nominee Director.

Dissolution SKU split into two: Strike-off Initiation ($999, administrative non-renewal) and Voluntary Liquidation ($2,499, bank-acceptable statutory wind-up). The previous single-SKU $249 retail did not sustainably cover either treatment.

Repricing applied where sustainable pricing required it: IFZA $3,499 → $4,499, Meydan $3,899 → $5,699, Bahamas IBC $2,099 → $2,349, Belize IBC $999 → $1,099, Offshore RA renewal $499 → $649, Apostille $149 → $179, Form 5472 $449 → $499, Nominee Director $799 → $899. UK Ltd dropped $199 → $149 via a direct filing-API integration. Estonia OÜ dropped $649 → $549 via a streamlined EU corridor.

Each SKU is fulfilled through a licensed agent in its jurisdiction, selected from our 2026 corridor research.

Panama Foundation remains gated (enabled:false): Panama is still on EU Annex I as of Feb 2026; deferred until exit (forecast late-2026 / early-2027). A licensed Panama agent is lined up for the eventual activation. BVI BC ships with clear EU Annex II + FATF grey (added Jun 2025) disclosure on the jurisdiction page.

Catalog expanded again. Current totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

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Brand voice v2.5 alignment + visual elevation pass

Hero MH·DAO illustration line now animates on a 3.6s loop (respects prefers-reduced-motion). Home product cards surface the SKU number in the kicker. Repeating border-l-2 tertiary accent on inner H2s across product and jurisdiction templates. Ticker-style trust strip with kicker + label per item. HowItWorks gains a vertical tertiary hairline and pulse-dot indicators tying 01 → 02 → 03. Final CTA wraps the primary in Magnetic and italicizes "Pay in Bitcoin." per the canonical italic-accent treatment. Per-card reveal stagger on the home product grid and bitcoin-difference grid. Faint tertiary hairline at every section-band seam.

Vanuatu IC ships live at $1,899 retail, priced all-in, via a licensed Vanuatu agent as the primary RA. Current catalog totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

Brand voice v2.5 compliance: competitor names scrubbed from every customer surface outside the Honest Table; the "Stripe Atlas vs OffshoreGuy" blog post retitled to "VC-Aligned Formation Platforms vs OffshoreGuy" with a new slug. Felix CTA replaces Claude on the final CTA band. Adam Juchniewicz, CEO, OffshoreGuy now attributed in the home Organization JSON-LD and the layout-level SEO/OG metadata. The terms page no longer references the underlying AI tooling. AML Policy uses "our sanctions-screening provider" instead of naming the compliance vendor. Honest Table polished with a "Bundled bookkeeping" loss row, neutral X icons, and the canonical "May 2026" snapshot footnote. Blog template now renders `>` pull-quotes as styled editorial blockquotes; one pull-quote per post and Observation-Humor-Redirect openers on the three highest-traffic posts. Felix system prompt gains tier-naming, no-opinions, and Honest-Table-boundary rules; both seed greetings use the canonical "Felix here, OffshoreGuy support." Tier labels now surface on /quiz recommendation cards and the /products/compare Jurisdiction row.

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Cayman Exempted ships in two SKUs

The Cayman Exempted Company is now offered as two SKUs: Standard ($3,499) and Magic-Circle ($9,499). The legal vehicle is identical between the two; the differentiator is the institutional-acceptance signal carried by the registered-office firm. Current catalog totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

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Catalog expansion: Vanuatu, UAE, Cayman, Singapore, Bahamas

Seven new SKUs added across the Pacific (Vanuatu IC), Middle East (UAE IFZA, RAKEZ, Meydan free zones), Cayman (Exempted Company), Asia (Singapore Pte Ltd with included nominee director), and Caribbean (Bahamas IBC). Current catalog totals are rendered from the live catalog constants instead of this historical entry.

Pricing audit completed in parallel: every SKU is repriced for sustainable, honest, all-in pricing. All product detail pages, the comparison table, and quiz logic carry through automatically. New SKUs ship marked Phase 2 pending licensed-provider arrangements.

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BTC price source moved to CoinGecko

The public fallback for the live BTC/USD rate is now CoinGecko's simple-price API across every surface: live strip, PriceStack, /api/btc-rate, and /api/quote. BitSettle remains the primary source when configured. Caddyfile CSP updated to allow api.coingecko.com (and the BlockHeight + mempool-fee endpoints that were previously missing). Optional COINGECKO_DEMO_KEY / COINGECKO_PRO_KEY env vars enable the paid rate tiers without changing application code.

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Live network strip + Bitcoin-native checkout deep-links

Every marketing page now ships a thin live-data strip above the nav with BTC/USD, the current Bitcoin block height (mempool.space → Blockstream fallback), and the next-block sat/vB fee. The footer carries the same block-height as a brand mark.

On /checkout, the Pay-in-Bitcoin block now surfaces a live mempool-fee panel and, once an invoice is created, Lightning and BIP21 deep-links that open directly in any compatible wallet, plus one-click copy for the raw invoice and BTC address.

Performance: tuned font preloading so the secondary faces no longer compete for critical-path bandwidth with the display face. Editorial: hanging punctuation, balanced text wrap, and drop caps on long-form blog posts.

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Elevation pass 1: operator-grade reference site

Four hand-written inline-SVG illustrations added (how-it-works, jurisdiction marks, Bitcoin-difference, empty-state). Every /jurisdictions/[slug] now ships a long-form template (Overview · Why this jurisdiction · KYC reality · Banking · Case-for · Case-against · FAQ) with Service + FAQPage + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.

Every /products/[slug] gained What's-NOT-included transparency, a per-tier KYC checklist, and a related-products row. Felix chat got localStorage persistence, message timestamps, retry-on-failure, structured tool-call rendering, and a focus-trap with ESC close. Empty states and brand-voice 404 + 500 pages shipped.

Banking page now ships per-bank fit narratives + Best-for/Bad-for + approval-likelihood signals. Perks portal moved from stubs to 16 multi-sentence operator-grade descriptions with inline-SVG marks. Three blog posts expanded to ~1,000 words plus three new cornerstone articles.

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Bootstrap: first public deploy

Next 15 + Tailwind v4 + Drizzle scaffolding, 13-table schema with seed for 20 jurisdictions and 25 products. PriceStack signature component with BitcoinRateContext wired to a live CoinGecko fallback. Clerk-gated dashboard, Stripe-free payment flow via BitSettle (BTCPay failover), Resend email templates, Coolify Docker + Caddyfile, /api/og dynamic image generation. First marketing site live: 11 sections on /, full /products + /pricing + /jurisdictions catalogs, /quiz, /bundles, /perks, /banking, /how-it-works, /docs/{terms,privacy,refund,aml-policy,disclaimers}, /blog.