HiiveAnthropic · Hiive briefing · 2026
The problem with tenders

Each tender cycle costs more than the deal it closes.

CFO + People Ops + legal + comms, months of leadership time, twice a year. And the cycle still leaves a gap. Employees who can't wait until the next window go to SPV chains that fragment your cap table. You spend executive bandwidth on a process that doesn't even meet the demand.

Cost
~3-6 months
of cross-functional time per tender cycle
Result
Liquidity that lags demand
SPV chains form between cycles, fragmenting the cap table
Reality
Secondary trading happens anyway
The only question is whether it's on your terms
Opportunity
Make liquidity continuous
Issuer-controlled, on-cap-table, by-design
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