After two years of regulatory pressure, legal disputes and severe financial strain, Unicoin is attempting to move from defence to renewal. Co-founder Silvina Moschini says the company has retained the support of its investors and property partners while developing a new strategy that places SafeBets at the centre of the Unicoin ecosystem.
The change in emphasis is significant. Unicoin was launched in 2022 with a proposition built around a treasury of real-world assets, including real estate and equity interests in private companies. It sold rights certificates entitling purchasers to receive Unicoin tokens when they were issued and negotiated agreements through which property owners could exchange real estate for unicoins.
SEC actions
That model was disrupted by a civil enforcement action filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in May 2025. The SEC alleges that Unicoin and three senior executives made false and misleading statements about the company’s rights certificates, token sales and asset portfolio. Unicoin and the executives contest those allegations, which have not been established at trial, and have chosen to fight the case rather than settle.
Moschini describes the action as a vicious attack on a company that had deliberately tried to operate transparently. Unicoin became a public reporting company, produced audited financial statements and raised capital under securities rules while preparing for a token launch.
“We were doing everything by the book and above and beyond the standard,” says Moschini. “We expected to become the poster child for doing crypto correctly, and instead we became one of the final targets.”
The past two years have been exceptionally difficult, she says, but they have not removed the foundations on which the company was built. Investors continued to support management’s decision to defend the case, while sellers involved in Unicoin’s real-estate-for-token transactions agreed to renew their contracts.
Moschini says the renewed property swap agreements represent more than $2.3 billion and have been reported to the SEC and placed in escrow. The figure refers to property agreements rather than $2.3 billion in completed transfers. She explains that the transactions were designed to complete alongside the token launch, avoiding the tax and operating burden of transferring and maintaining the properties substantially in advance.
Investors Still Loyal
“The investors are fighting with us,” says Moschini. “We have survived for two years while operating on a shoestring budget against an agency with enormous power and resources.”
For Moschini, that continued backing matters because it challenges the idea that Unicoin’s investors see themselves as victims of the company. She says shareholders and token-rights holders have remained involved in major decisions, with votes used when management needs approval for changes in direction.
The company has also received expressions of support from within the wider digital asset industry. Its War on Crypto campaign presents the Unicoin case as part of the broader debate about regulation by enforcement in the United States and calls for the political promise of ending the conflict with the crypto sector to be translated into practice.
The regulatory dispute has not erased the damage caused by the past two years. Moschini acknowledges the financial and personal toll and says a more positive outlook does not make that period right. Her argument is that Unicoin has survived it and now has a credible route towards utility and distribution.
SafeBets
That route is SafeBets, a prediction platform designed around what the company calls Proof of Intelligence. SafeBets allows participants to make forecasts without risking or losing their own money. Users who make accurate predictions, contribute useful information or take part in the network can earn Unicoin rewards and develop a record of their forecasting performance.
Moschini distinguishes the idea from conventional gambling and prediction markets in which participants wager against one another. She wants the platform to reward knowledge, research and accuracy while reducing the addictive dynamics associated with betting.
“We want to promote learning, technology, mathematics and the algorithms that can help people make better predictions,” says Moschini. “People can earn rewards instead of betting against one another in a model that can create addiction.”
SafeBets is intended to provide Unicoin with a clear function as its network token. As the platform attracts users, rewards would place unicoins in more wallets and expand the community using the token. Moschini compares the principle to other network-based digital assets whose utility and reach increase as more participants adopt the underlying system.
The commercial proposition extends beyond individual rewards. SafeBets aims to aggregate forecasting signals from users around the world, creating a body of collective intelligence. Its longer-term business model may include transaction revenue, data products and access to insights generated by its strongest predictors.
The company is backing that strategy with a substantial advertising commitment. Moschini says SafeBets is investing millions of dollars in advertising inventory for a campaign that will present Unicoin as the platform’s network token. That campaign gives Unicoin a route to visibility and adoption beyond the company’s existing investors.
This is the most important change in Unicoin’s position. The company is no longer relying solely on the eventual completion of property transactions or a token launch to define its future. SafeBets provides a working use case, a potential source of users and a commercial platform around which the token can develop.
There are still matters to resolve. The SEC litigation remains active, the timing of asset transfers must be managed carefully and Unicoin must convert renewed contracts and community support into operating momentum. The company has also faced a trademark dispute with Uniswap over the Unicoin name and proposed token symbol. These risks remain real, although they no longer tell the entire story.
Moschini’s outlook is markedly more confident than the circumstances of the past two years might suggest. She believes the continued support of investors and property partners, combined with the SafeBets strategy and advertising campaign, has given Unicoin a stronger route forward.
The regulatory fight has caused pain, consumed resources and delayed the company’s plans. It has also forced Unicoin to clarify what its token will be used for and how it can reach a wider market. SafeBets is now the answer Moschini is putting forward: a prediction network in which users are rewarded for intelligence and Unicoin becomes the economic layer connecting them.
Unicoin still has legal and commercial hurdles ahead, but it has survived the period that threatened to bring the project to an end. With renewed property agreements, committed investors and millions of dollars in SafeBets advertising inventory intended to support adoption, Moschini believes the company is entering its next chapter from a position of resilience rather than retreat.
