Sophis has no foundation, no DAO treasury, no fundraising round. There is no entity to receive money. Anyone who chooses to donate sends to a personal SPHS address controlled by the founder, framed as a personal donation. Contributing code or review through the public repository is the most valuable form of support.
Open a pull request, review someone else's PR, file an issue, or write a SIP. All contributions are reviewed under the DCO + PR flow published in the reference repository. This is the form of support that compounds.
Once mainnet is live, donations are accepted at a dedicated personal address (separate from the founder's mining address). The donation address will be published in the T-72h mainnet announcement alongside the canonical binary hashes. There is no multisig, no curated NGO list, and no third-party custodian.
The reference miner ships with an opt-in
--donate-percent flag
for client-side coinbase splits. The flag is OFF by
default. The core team does not curate, host, or
recommend any donation address list. If you choose to
split a percentage of your coinbase, you pick the
recipient address yourself.
Result: each block mined yields 95% to the miner, 3% to recipient_1, 2% to recipient_2. Determinism is guaranteed; rounding remainders accrue to the miner. Maximum 8 donation outputs per block.
Foundations and DAO treasuries create custodial centralization, regulatory surface area (VASP/MiCA scoping), and governance capture risk. The 2026-05-04 design pivot eliminated every on-chain devfund mechanism, every protocol-level recipient, and any legal entity tied to the project.
What remains is the Bitcoin Core / Monero Project model: code plus protocol plus community, funded by personal initiative. Donations stay personal because there is no entity to receive them; if a contributor wants to fund themselves through donations, they publish their own address — the project does not maintain a curated list.
The full rationale is documented in OPERATIONAL_BOUNDARIES.md.
Miners who want to offset the energy footprint of their
hashrate can use the
community labels repository
— a public, community-curated catalogue of opt-in
verification metadata for addresses (e.g., green-energy
pledges, transparency disclosures). The core team does not
curate this list. The
--donate-to miner flag
works with any address you choose.