BlackStar Enterprise Group is a micro-cap merchant bank focused on providing venture and mezzanine capital to early-stage, revenue-generating companies in the U.S., with a particular emphasis on blockchain and distributed ledger technology. The company's intended business model involves investing up to $1M per company in early-stage ventures, taking majority control through joint ventures or LLC structures, and generating returns through divestiture or spin-off over a 36-to-60-month horizon. In practice, BlackStar has completed only one merchant banking transaction, has no full-time employees, and is managed part-time by two independent consultants. BlackStar is also developing a second business line: the BlackStar Digital Trading Platform (BDTP), a blockchain-based securities trading platform designed to allow trading of a company's own common stock on a private blockchain within the existing SEC- and FINRA-regulated broker-dealer ecosystem. If commercialized, BlackStar intends to license the BDTP to other publicly traded companies as a subscription service under the "Blockchain Equity Trading" brand, using that recurring revenue to fund its merchant banking operations. The platform is complete and in testing but has no users, no regulatory approval, and no committed ATS or broker-dealer partner. BlackStar holds eight U.S. patents covering components of the BDTP. Currently, BlackStar generates no operating revenue from either business line and funds operations through convertible notes and private loans.