Vircon Legal advised Gameness on its public coin offering, covering the full ICO legal stack — from token design and jurisdictional structuring to investor disclosures and post-offering compliance.

Gameness is a Turkish Web3 gaming infrastructure project that connects competitive gaming, esports tournaments and reward economies on-chain; the protocol turns player participation, performance and community engagement into tokenized incentives, with applications spanning tournament organization, brand partnerships and creator monetization. The product sits at the intersection of two categories where Türkiye has unusually deep talent pools — mobile and competitive gaming on one side, and on-chain consumer infrastructure on the other.

Public token offerings remain among the most legally complex transactions in the venture lifecycle, with overlapping considerations across securities, anti-money-laundering, consumer-protection and tax regimes that vary materially by jurisdiction. The Turkish regulatory perimeter for crypto-assets has continued to evolve, with new framework rules around service-provider licensing, custody and disclosure shifting what is feasible at home versus what requires offshore structuring. Web3 gaming projects that intend to list on exchanges, distribute tokens to retail participants and operate a live gameplay product simultaneously have to align all three workstreams from the start; sequencing failures are difficult and expensive to unwind later.

The public coin offering brought together retail and crypto-native investors at scale; the deal sits among the most complex token launches advised on by Vircon Legal in 2025, given the parallel design of token economics, regulatory positioning and exchange-listing readiness. The transaction structure was built to support live product operations and a credible institutional-investor pathway in parallel, rather than treating the token launch as a standalone capital event.

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  • Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu

    Mümtaz is the Managing Partner of Vircon Legal, which he founded in 2016. He advises founders, investors and operators on financing rounds, M&A, cross-border incorporations and regulated verticals — including crypto-asset infrastructure, fintech and games — bringing a former startup founder's perspective to every engagement.

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Published: 15 April 2025 · last updated: 25 May 2026
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