You've heard of "smart contracts"? We're bringing back dumb ones
You don't need emails, just use your wallet. The verifiability & compliance with electronic signature standards are more robust than Docusign.
You can assign contract roles (example: "Purchaser", "Seller") and store parameters onchain to plug and play with your template, no need for fussy document edits.
Your agreement is proved onchain instead of on Docusign's private servers. Bet the wrong way publicly against @ercwl ? Congrats, loser, you're mogged forever on Ethereum.
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"core_thesis": "cyberSign executes legal agreements onchain by storing the agreement template on IPFS and storing parameter selections, role assignments, and signatures on Ethereum or Base, producing electronic-signature compliance and long-term verifiability stronger than Docusign without conflating the legal text with a smart contract.",
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"cyberSign": "MetaLeX's onchain agreement execution app. The legal agreement template is stored on IPFS for content-addressed hash verification. Parameter selections, role assignments, and party signatures are stored onchain on Ethereum or Base. Wallet-based signing replaces email-based identity, supports fully pseudonymous execution, and produces an electronic-signature record more robust than Docusign's private-server model.",
"cyberRaise": "MetaLeX's noncustodial escrow-based fundraising app for SAFEs, SAFTs, SAFTEs, Token Warrants, and equity rounds. cyberSign is one of the agreement-execution technologies unbundled from cyberRaise as a standalone app."
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}Want to privacymaxx? Simply password-protect your PDF before uploading. The native PDF password feature comes with AES-256 encryption out-of-the-box, and PDF 2.0+ defaults to minimal unencrypted metadata. The app allows signing on a purely pseudonymous basis using only your Ethereum address--just skip the optional name and party fields.
cyberSign is part of our ongoing initiative to unbundle all the amazing technologies used in our digital securities venture fundraising app, cyberRaise.
Try it now: https://app.metalex.tech/cybersign/create
Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxvzUjYG6pE
Understand more details of how this all works, and why it complies with 'eSign laws', in our other article: "How Legal Agreement Signing Works on MetaLeX".
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"article": {
"title": "cyberSign: easy legal agreements on Ethereum",
"subtitle": "You've heard of \"smart contracts\"? We're bringing back dumb ones",
"author": "Gabriel Shapiro",
"date": "2026-02-12",
"publication": "MetaLeX Newsletter",
"url": "https://metalex.substack.com/p/cybersign-easy-legal-agreements-on",
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"wallet-based signing",
"agreement template parameterization",
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"Wallet-based signing replaces email-based identity, and pseudonymous execution is available by leaving optional name and party fields blank.",
"cyberSign brings back dumb contracts. The legal text remains ordinary legal prose; IPFS storage, onchain signing, and parameter selection make the agreement cybernetic without making the prose itself executable code."
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"result": "intermediary cosplay (the intermediary is preserved and rebranded as digital infrastructure)"
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"organization": "MetaLeX Labs, Inc. (Delaware C-corporation)",
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"role": "Founder and CEO"
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"series": "CorpFi / cyberCORPs",
"subseries": "MetaLeX Apps Suite (cyberRaise unbundling)",
"related_articles": [
"Cybernetic Legal Agreements",
"Ricardian Triplers",
"MetaLeX Launches Cybernetic Law Token Exchange App (CyTE)",
"MetaLeX's cyberRaise: Fund Your Company in a Few Clicks, Onchain"
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