1,000,000,000 SOVR.
Hard cap. Closed loop.
SOVR tokenomics and token burn
SOVR is the token of Sovren Network. Its supply is fixed at 1 billion and never changes. Every time someone pays for a network service, 50% of the SOVR is burned and recycled to fund future operator rewards, 25% goes to operators who did verified work, and 25% goes to the company.
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Where the 1 billion sits
All 1 billion SOVR has existed on-chain since genesis. Only 95 million SOVR (9.5%) has been released, into issuer-controlled reserve wallets. The other 905 million sits undistributed in the protocol reserve and can only leave it through the rules written into the chain.
Undistributed. Funds work-based operator rewards over time.
Funds early operator rewards while network usage grows.
Part of the 95M genesis release.
Set aside for exchange listings. Unissued; release needs a governed action.
Part of the 95M genesis release.
Matches early operator revenue.
The token burn: 50/25/25
When someone pays for a Sovren service, the payment settles in SOVR and splits three ways automatically. Half is burned and returned to the unissued supply, where it funds future operator rewards instead of disappearing. A quarter goes to operators who did verified work that day, and a quarter to the company for infrastructure, ecosystem, treasury and staking.
50%
Burn + Recycle
Spent SOVR goes back to the Latent reserve. It is not destroyed and it is not resold. It becomes the supply that future operator rewards are paid from.
25%
Operator pool
Shared once a day across every active operator, weighted by attested work: verified delivery and uptime. Owning a license alone earns nothing. Rewards are variable, depend on verified work and are not guaranteed.
25%
Company allocation
Funds the people and systems behind the network: 40% infrastructure, 40% ecosystem, 10% treasury, 10% staking pool.
Inside the 25% Company allocation
40%
Infrastructure
40%
Ecosystem
10%
Treasury
10%
Staking pool
The split is set in the chain's settlement module and runs on every settled payment. There are no invoices and no manual payouts.
Burn and recycle vs burn-and-mint
In a burn-and-mint equilibrium model, tokens spent on the network are destroyed, and new tokens are minted to pay the people who provide the service. Total supply moves up or down depending on whether more is burned or minted.
SOVR works differently. Spent SOVR is not destroyed. It returns to the Latent reserve, and operator rewards are paid out of that same reserve. Nothing new is ever minted: minting is switched off at the chain level. Total supply stays at exactly 1 billion SOVR at all times, and the supply module checks this on every transfer between states.
Because supply never shrinks, the SOVR burn is not deflationary. It recycles tokens so the network can keep paying for verified work as usage grows.
| Comparison | Burn-and-mint equilibrium | SOVR burn and recycle |
|---|---|---|
| Burned tokens | Burned tokens are destroyed. | Burned tokens return to the Latent reserve. |
| Rewards | New tokens are minted as rewards. | Rewards are paid from the Latent reserve. |
| Total supply | Total supply can change. | Total supply is fixed at 1 billion. |
Four states, one closed loop
Every SOVR token is in exactly one of four states at any moment. Burn + Recycle is the step that sends spent SOVR back to the start.
Latent
Reward issued
Locked
Operator claims
Vesting
180-day vest
Claimed
Burn + Recycle
The detail
State 01
Latent
Held by the chain's supply module, in an account that has no private key. No person or company can move it. Rewards are issued from here.
State 02
Locked
Issued to an operator for verified work and waiting to be claimed.
State 03
Vesting
The operator has claimed it. It releases in a straight line over 180 days. While it vests, the node that earned it pauses.
State 04
Claimed
Fully released and in the operator's wallet to hold, use or transfer.
Transition
Burn + Recycle
When SOVR is spent on a network service, half returns to Latent and the loop starts again.
SOVR key parameters
Full specification: SOVR whitepaper v7.0
SOVR tokenomics FAQ
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