THE SHARP
INNOVATION
FOUNDATION.
Token governance · Ecosystem growth · Treasury stewardship
The Sharp Innovation Foundation is the non-profit that stewards the Sharp Economy. It holds the governed parameters of the protocol, manages the token pools that fund growth and rewards, and admits partners to the network.
It is designed to hand control over. Every power it holds today has a stage at which it passes to token holders.
FOUR POOLS.
FOUR RULES.
Each pool has a purpose it cannot be spent outside of, a release rule, and an on-chain record of every disbursement. The Foundation administers them. It does not own them.
Funds the daily rewards pool. Released on a fixed fifteen-year emission curve, scaled each day by verified activity. Unclaimed allocation burns.
Audits, liquidity provision, ecosystem grants, and emergency reserve. May fund buyback-and-burn when circulating supply outpaces usage.
Onboarding grants for communities and businesses that integrate the protocol, sized to their user base and vested against milestones. Seeds each new economy.
Referral programs, hackathon prize pools, contests, and events. Time-limited campaigns, each approved individually.
WHAT IS GOVERNED,
AND BY WHOM.
The protocol exposes a small set of parameters. Changing one is a governance act. Today that act is taken by the Foundation board; over four phases it passes to token holders.
Strategic decisions: parameter changes, partner admission, treasury disbursement above threshold, protocol upgrades. Every resolution is published.
Drawn from industry advisors and community leaders. Review partner applications, grant proposals, and campaign spend before they reach the board.
Advisory votes first, binding votes later. The sequence is fixed in the roadmap below and the Foundation cannot reverse it.
Foundation stewards
Board holds all governed parameters. Committees advise. All actions published.
Advisory votes
Stakers vote on parameter proposals. Board is bound to publish a response to every outcome.
Binding votes
Fee ratios, weights, and emission move to on-chain voting. Treasury disbursement requires a passed proposal.
DAO
Treasury under DAO control. Partner admission permissionless. Foundation retains the impact mandate only.
HOW THE NETWORK
GETS BIGGER.
Growth is funded, not hoped for. Three programmes, each drawing on a specific pool with a specific rule.
Grants to integrate
A community or business that adopts the protocol receives a SHARP allocation sized to its user base, vested against integration milestones, to seed rewards and contests for its members.
Hackathons and campaigns
Prize pools for hackathons, coding competitions, and content contests. Referral programmes that pay both sides. Institutions can co-host, with the Foundation matching prizes.
Build on the protocol
Funding for tooling, integrations, agent registries, and research that extends the protocol. Proposed to a committee, approved by the board, disbursed on chain.
THIRTY-NINE
PERCENT.
39% of the global poor lack formal education. The Foundation allocates 39% of its net profit, every year, to a Global Education Impact Fund. The Foundation directs it to vetted charities working on education for the underprivileged, girls' education, mental health, and veteran support.
The number is not a slogan. It is a commitment written into the Foundation's mandate, and the one power it will keep after everything else is handed over.
BRING YOUR
COMMUNITY.
Partner onboarding grants are open to communities and businesses with an active user base and a plan to integrate. Ecosystem grants are open to anyone building on the protocol.