SOST — An honest status note, and a question to the community This is not an announcement of a listing, a price, or a partnership. It is a
sincere status note, and a request for your opinion.
Where the project really stands After three months of mainnet — since genesis on 2026-03-15 — I want to be
plain about what is solid and what is missing.
What I am confident about: the protocol is solid. Not because I say so, but
because of the miners who have been here since the very first blocks. Every
bug that surfaced in this first stage — the SbPoW build-flag stall, the cASERT
edge cases, the P2P/RPC lock issue, the bootstrap snapshot problem — was found,
reported and fixed in the open, on the public record. A chain that asks people
to verify everything has to be willing to be verified itself, and that only
happened because real operators were running it and reporting honestly. Thank
you. That is the part money cannot buy.
What is missing is just as plain:
community. The technical output is far
ahead of the project's visibility. I am finishing a Discord, but I have no
illusion that opening a Discord automatically creates a strong community — it
does not. Community is the real gap, and I would rather say that openly than
pretend otherwise.
On exchanges — why I am not rushing I will be honest about the constraints. Right now, neither the available capital
nor an official external audit (which, as of today, the protocol does NOT have)
make a Tier-1 or Tier-2 CEX realistic. And the Tier-3/Tier-4 options — with full
respect to them — have to be genuinely trustworthy, because this project is
serious. It is not FOMO. Rushing into a bad choice here could damage everything
that has been built. So I would rather wait and choose well than move fast and
regret it.
A direction I am exploring — DePIN, and a real use case For anyone unfamiliar with the term:
DePIN — Decentralized Physical
Infrastructure Networks — means using a token to incentivize many people to
contribute real-world infrastructure or data, instead of one central company
building it. Helium does this for wireless coverage, Filecoin for storage,
Render for GPU compute, Hivemapper for maps. The common thread is a real
physical asset or dataset behind the token, not just financial software.
I am exploring whether SOST fits that description. GeaSpirit (geaspirit.com) is
built to be a mining-intelligence platform of real added value — 172,000+ mines
and deposits unified from open data, scored and geophysically screened, in 17
languages — connected to the SOST chain as the trust/provenance layer. That is
physical-world infrastructure intelligence, not just a coin. I will be honest
that it is a "data/intelligence" flavour of DePIN rather than the classic
hardware-network kind, which is exactly why I am asking rather than asserting.
On top of that, I am finalizing a new feature that I believe gives SOST a
genuine use case: turning GeaSpirit into a
serious marketplace for mining
assets, where individuals and companies can list mines, projects,
concessions, tailings and JV / farm-in opportunities. To be clear about what it
is and is NOT: GeaSpirit
publishes information and connects owners with
buyers — it does not custody funds, transfer title, guarantee ownership,
value assets as a financial adviser, or tokenize mines. What SOST adds is the
part nobody else has: each published listing is
hashed and anchored on the
SOST chain, giving a tamper-evident, timestamped integrity record (proof a
listing existed unchanged at a point in time — not proof of ownership or
quality). This is being finalized now; I am building it carefully and honestly,
not rushing it live.
Separately, and strictly as research — not a product claim — I have also been
testing whether established open-data geological prospectivity methods (nothing
I invented, and emphatically not a deposit detector) can help GeaSpirit rank
regions by relative rare-earth favourability; I am validating it honestly,
reporting its limits, and it is not a live feature (see the disclaimer).
Why the framing matters I want to be transparent about why I am even raising this. DePIN — together with
real-world assets and on-chain useful compute — is one of the categories that
specialized grant programs, accelerators and funds are actually paying attention
to right now. I am NOT chasing a token sale and NOT promising any raise. But an
honest, accurate framing is what lets a credible partner understand what SOST is
in the first place. I would rather earn that attention through a real use case —
the mining-asset marketplace above — than through hype. A note on how that world
works, for newcomers: serious investors fund traction and teams, not slogans, so
I treat this as a long game, not a shortcut.
What was done in three months — without complacency I do not want to fall into self-congratulation, but a lot has shipped:
- ConvergenceX memory-hard PoW with cASERT (bitsQ Q16.16, equalizer profiles)
- SbPoW signature-bound mining live since block 7,100
- V13 hard fork executed at block 12,000; V14 hardening at 15,000
- Public explorer, browser wallet, encrypted P2P, Protocol Registry, Beacon advisory layer
- Atomic-swap (HTLC) engine in development — gates safety-closed, nothing live yet
- GeaSpirit mining-intelligence platform — and, now in development, a mining-asset marketplace (connection-only,
on-chain anchored) - Research, not a shipped feature: applying established open-data geological prospectivity methods to rank regional
rare-earth favourability in GeaSpirit — spatially cross-validated and honestly reported as a weak-but-measurable signal; a
prioritization aid only, not a deposit detector, and not yet externally validated - SLIP-0044 coin_type registered, merged by SatoshiLabs (PR #2004)
Incidents and post-mortems are all public on this thread and in the repo.
What the project actually needs Not hype. What it needs is for one established, trustworthy actor in the crypto
world to take the project seriously and look at it properly. Everything else —
the code, the chain, the honesty record — is already on the table for anyone to
verify.
Honest criticism is welcome — it is more useful to me than praise.
SOST is experimental, unaudited software still in early operation. ConvergenceX
has not been audited by an external firm. GeaSpirit is an information and
connection tool — not a broker, custodian, or investment adviser; on-chain
anchoring proves a listing's integrity and timestamp, not ownership or quality.
The regional rare-earth favourability prior is an experimental research prototype
and a regional prioritization aid only — not a deposit detector, not subsurface
detection, and not a claim that rare earths exist, or their grade or value, at
any location; it is not externally validated and is not a live product feature.
The Gold Vault is a protocol-level reserve-accumulation mechanism, not redeemable
backing or any financial guarantee. SOST may never obtain market value or be
listed. And please remember that nothing here is financial advice. — NeoB
