Sophis Network is a pseudonymous developer collective publishing an L1 blockchain modeled after Bitcoin Core and the Monero Project. There is no foundation, no LLC, no token-weighted governance, no fundraising round, no premine. The reference implementation is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, and protocol changes follow the SIP process reviewed by named maintainers.
The whitepaper and reference implementation are published under the pseudonym Marcelo Delgado. The pseudonym is held by a single person through a published succession plan; no team or company is behind the name. The choice is deliberate, modeled after Satoshi Nakamoto: it disconnects the protocol from any one legal jurisdiction, reduces personal regulatory surface, and clarifies that Sophis is a public good, not a corporate product.
Maintainers reviewing patches publish their handles in MAINTAINERS.md. Contributors are recruited through the public PR flow under the DCO sign-off requirement.
Among existing chains: Bitcoin is fair-launched and conservative, but its cryptography (ECDSA / Schnorr) breaks under a sufficiently large quantum computer. QRL and IOTA ship post-quantum signatures, but neither is a pure fair launch. Monero combines fair launch with privacy and ASIC resistance (RandomX), but its cryptography is also pre-quantum, and its privacy model now classifies it as an Anonymity-Enhancing Cryptocurrency (AEC) under MiCA Article 76 — leading to widespread CEX delistings.
Sophis occupies the empty intersection: fair launch + post-quantum signatures + transparent L1. None of the three properties is novel in isolation. Their combination in a single chain, at genesis, with no migration debt and no AEC classification surface, is.
The "harvest-now-decrypt-later" attack model already applies to long-lived signatures: an adversary can store today's transactions and forge them retroactively the day a cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer becomes available. For a chain whose UTXOs may sit for decades, retrofitting PQC after the fact requires a hard fork plus key migration; users who never migrate are permanently exposed. Sophis side-steps that migration debt by being PQC from block 0.
For general inquiries, press, or pseudonymous correspondence to the maintainer collective.
[email protected]For bug reports, feature discussion, security concerns, or SIP proposals. Public by default.
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