Background
To reduce market volatility and align treasury-controlled assets with long-term network growth, the Foundation has placed a large portion of unlocked $SOON into long-term staking. Under SIP-3 (164.01M $SOON) and SIP-4 (15.92M $SOON), a total of approximately 179.93M $SOON has been placed into long-term staking — including 52,499,999 $SOON from the Ecosystem allocation.
SIP-3 explicitly reserved one exception to the long-term lock: a release for major ecosystem initiatives, decided through governance. This proposal invokes that exception.
The SOON ecosystem has entered a new phase of growth. The AI Capital Market we launched has incubated a group of strong early-stage projects that are now live and gaining traction.
Anthropic has filed for an IPO, and OpenAI has followed with its own filing just one week later. As the world’s leading AI companies move into public capital markets, we believe SOON must act with the same conviction — backing the AI projects growing within our own ecosystem.
At this critical moment for ecosystem development, we believe a portion of the staked Ecosystem tokens will create more value deployed as builder incentives than sitting idle in staking.
Proposed Action
SOON Foundation proposes to unstake 30,000,000 $SOON from the 52,499,999 staked Ecosystem allocation on June 17, 2026, and distribute it as incentives to outstanding early-stage projects in the AI Capital Market, as follows:
| Project | Allocation ($SOON) |
|---|---|
| AI Super Quant | 10,000,000 |
| Polyfollow | 5,000,000 |
| signlOs | 5,000,000 |
| Big Squirrel | 5,000,000 |
| DucLuck | 5,000,000 |
| Total | 30,000,000 |
Conditions of this action:
- Scope: Only 30,000,000 $SOON from the Ecosystem staked allocation will be unstaked. The remaining 22,499,999 staked Ecosystem tokens, and all other staked allocations, remain in long-term staking unchanged.
- Purpose-bound: The unstaked tokens will be used exclusively as ecosystem incentives for the five projects listed above, per the stated amounts.
- Timing: The unstaking will take place on June 17, 2026, UTC.
- Governance-first: Unstaking will proceed only after this proposal passes community discussion and voting, consistent with the governance commitment made in SIP-3.
Expected Benefits
- Accelerating ecosystem growth: Direct incentives give the most promising AI Capital Market projects the resources to scale users, liquidity, and product development on SOON.
- Converting idle supply into productive supply: These tokens move from passive staking into active ecosystem use — funding builders rather than re-entering the open market as sell pressure.
We acknowledge the tradeoff: unstaking increases the theoretically circulating supply by 30M $SOON. We believe the long-term value created by a thriving AI Capital Market outweighs this, and the distribution is directed to project incentives rather than market sales.
Community Discussion and Voting
We invite all community members to share their thoughts, concerns, and suggestions regarding this proposal. Your feedback is crucial as we work together to strengthen the SOON ecosystem.
We will open a vote in the near future after listening to community discussions.