A Fair-Launch, Post-Quantum Layer-1 BlockDAG. Technical and economic foundation of the Sophis network, authored by Marcelo Delgado. 27 pages, 17 sections.
Why CRYSTALS-Dilithium ML-DSA-44 (NIST FIPS 204) is the only signature scheme, why secp256k1 and Schnorr were excluded, and how the implementation (libcrux-ml-dsa, constant-time Rust) is integrated.
The 210,000,000 SPHS hard cap, smooth ~0.94% monthly subsidy decay, ~159-year long-tail emission curve, the elimination of any on-chain devfund, and the founder's voluntary 5% lifetime mining cap.
GHOSTDAG with k=124, 10 blocks per second, RandomX as the memory-hard PoW choice, anti-long-range-attack measures (min_chain_work + max_chain_work_seen), and finality semantics.
The sVM (Wasmtime-backed, fuel-metered, capability-gated WASM runtime), the eleven capability slots, native L1 token primitives, and the Risc0 ZK-Rollup that provides optional L2 throughput.
What the core team will and will not operate (faucet, explorer, DNS seeders yes; mining pool, bridge, custody no), and the rationale anchored in the 2026-05-04 regulatory pivot.
The seventeen Sophis Improvement Proposals (SIP-0 through SIP-16): six are consensus-impacting and baked into genesis; the rest are spec-only or ecosystem extensions gated on demand.
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