HISTORICAL ECONOMICS ON THIS PAGE. Text below describing a 50/25/25 split, a Gold Funding Vault emission stream or a PoPC Pool share is true only for blocks below #25,000. Since V15 the split is 50% miner / 50% DTD and the gold and PoPC emission shares are zero; the DTD is permissionless (no PoPC bond required). Current: protocol spec · operator guide.
Community

No VCs. No Insiders.
Just Miners.

SOST launches from code, not from capital. The community forms around SOST itself — miners, developers, and gold holders who believe in sovereign proof-of-work with constitutional reserves.

OPEN SOURCE | MIT License — fully open source

Official Channels

How to Participate

MINE

Run a Miner

CPU-friendly, memory-hard ConvergenceX mining. 8 GB RAM required per thread (4 GB dataset + 4 GB scratchpad). The reference miner is CPU-oriented; SOST does not enforce CPU-only at consensus level. Build from source and start mining with sost-miner. (Historical: blocks mined before #25,000 allocated 25% to the Gold Reserve automatically; since V15 that share is 0 and the per-block split is 50% miner / 50% DTD.)

NODE

Run a Full Node

Validate the chain independently. Every full node strengthens the network by relaying blocks and transactions, maintaining the UTXO set, and enforcing consensus rules.

DEVELOP

Contribute Code

C++17 codebase, MIT licensed. Open issues, submit pull requests, review code, write tests. All development is public on GitHub.

PoPC

PoPC (Legacy)

PoPC was redesigned to a single native-SOST bond and is now paused / legacy, superseded by DTD / DTD Jackpot (zero emission since V15, #25,000). The earlier Model A / Model B gold-custody design is historical; there is no active custody program to join today.

Contact & Support

Contact & Support
GITHUB ONLY
ChannelLink
Business inquiriesContact Page
GitHub Issuesgithub.com/Neob1844/sost-core/issues
For security disclosures, use the private Security Vulnerability Report form at sost-contact.html (do NOT open a public GitHub issue).

Community Principles

What SOST Is
BY DESIGN
PrincipleDetail
PermissionlessAnyone can mine, run a node, or transact without permission
Open sourceMIT license — use, modify, distribute freely
No ongoing parameter governanceMonetary rules immutable at genesis — no DAO, no voting
CPU-friendlyConvergenceX resists ASIC and GPU concentration
Constitutional reserves25% Gold Funding Vault + 25% PoPC Pool — hardcoded, immutable
Fair launchNo premine, no ICO, no VC allocation, no insider tokens
What SOST Is Not
CLEAR BOUNDARIES
MisconceptionReality
Not an investment productSOST is a consensus. No returns are promised or guaranteed.
Not a gold pegThe reserve is an observable metric, not a redemption right.
Not a broker or custodianSOST does not trade, custody, or manage user assets.
Not governed by votingConsensus rules are immutable. No governance token exists.
Not a staking protocolPoPC proves custody of external gold — not circular token locking.
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