The Civilization Protocol
Three pillars. One civilization. The Crust protects your identity. The Handshake enables trustless trade. The Harvest rewards everyone who builds.
Click “How it works” on any card for step-by-step mechanics.
Civilization Architecture
The Crust — Own Your Reputation
Your reputation is yours. Not on a platform — on the chain. Portable, undeletable, unsellable. Every successful Bake thickens your Crust.
- 1Soulbound identity created on-chain — cannot be sold or transferred
- 2Every completed Bake (trade/agreement) strengthens your Crust score
- 3Portable across every Oven (chain) SOUR deploys to
- 4Other protocols can query your Crust via API — composable trust
- 5No platform can erase your economic history — it's yours forever
The Handshake — Trade Without Walls
Two people, one Recipe. No middleman, no borders, no waiting. Code guards the deal, the Starter carries the payment.
- 1Smart contract (Recipe) defines terms — deliverables, deadlines, payment
- 2Both parties sign with wallets — immutable on-chain agreement
- 3Borderless instant settlement — seconds, not days
- 41-3% Pinch vs 15-20% traditional platform fees
- 5Community-set fee rates — the Bakers decide, not a corporation
The Harvest — Grow Together
Every Bake returns a Pinch to the Oven. 50% burns forever. 30% flows to Keepers. 20% to Commons. The network grows, everyone grows.
- 1Every Bake generates a Pinch (1-3% fee)
- 250% of the Pinch is burned — permanent supply reduction
- 330% distributed to Keepers — tier-weighted, in $SOUR
- 420% flows to Commons Bakery — community treasury for growth
- 5No inflation mechanics — real revenue from real protocol activity
Deflationary Burns
50% of all protocol fees buy $SOUR from market and burn it. Fixed supply. No minting. Your share grows automatically over time.
- 1Every Bake → 1-3% Pinch → 50% directed to burn
- 2$SOUR bought from open market → sent to burn address → gone forever
- 3Total supply: 1B. Burns only reduce — nothing mints
- 4Year 5 projection: ~600M supply → 0.10% holding becomes 0.167%
- 567% ownership increase — zero effort, just hold
Keeper Tiers
Hold longer, earn more. Four tiers based on hold duration. Higher tier = more Harvest weight + governance power. Sell = reset everything.
- 1Fresh Dough (Day 1): Community access, Baker identity
- 2Rising Dough (30 days): Harvest eligibility, reduced Pinch, DAO voting
- 3Golden Crust (90 days): 1.5x Harvest weight, Recipe proposals
- 4Eternal Starter (365 days): 2x Harvest weight, governance veto, Elder status
- 5Sell even once → tier resets to Fresh Dough, hold timer restarts from zero
Sell = Reset
The core loyalty mechanic. Sell your Starter → tier resets, Harvest stops, Crust thins. Diamond hands aren't a meme — they're the economic model.
- 1Any sell transaction triggers a full tier reset
- 2Hold timer restarts from zero — no shortcuts
- 3Harvest distribution stops immediately
- 4Crust score receives a penalty
- 5Reduces sell pressure → creates economic stability
Commons Bakery
20% of all protocol revenue flows to the community treasury. Quadratic voting ensures democracy. Reputation-gated proposals.
- 120% of every Pinch auto-fills the Commons — no vote needed to fund
- 2Spending decisions via quadratic voting: Power = √(tokens committed)
- 3Whale with 10,000 tokens gets 100 votes, not 10,000 — democracy first
- 4Only Keepers with active tier can vote — no sybil attacks
- 5Golden Crust+ can submit Recipe proposals for ecosystem grants
The Bakery DAO
Progressive decentralization toward full community governance. From multisig to DAO — the Bakers take control.
- 1Phase 1: Squads Protocol 3-of-5 multisig for treasury
- 2Phase 2: Community proposals + voting on spending
- 3Phase 3: Full on-chain governance — Bakery DAO
- 4Tier-gated participation prevents governance attacks
- 5Transparent — all movements visible on-chain, always
Security Architecture
Isolated contracts per Handshake. Multisig treasury. 48h timelock. Open source. Non-custodial. No backdoors.
- 1Each Handshake = isolated smart contract — no shared pool risk
- 2Squads Protocol multisig with 48h timelock on large transactions
- 3Mint authority revoked — no one can create new tokens
- 4Freeze authority revoked — no one can freeze your tokens
- 5Open source codebase — publicly auditable by anyone
Every Oven, Every Flame
SOUR starts on Solana but is designed for every chain. Wherever the flame burns, the Starter rises. Multichain is the endgame.
- 1Genesis on Solana — fast, cheap, battle-tested
- 2Architecture designed for multichain from day one
- 3Your Crust (reputation) travels across every Oven
- 4Same protocol, same Harvest — chain-agnostic value
- 5The Civilization doesn't depend on one chain's survival
The Harvest — Every Bake Powers the Civilization
HANDSHAKE
1-3% Pinch per Bake
50%
Burn
30%
Keepers
20%
Commons
No tokens minted. No staking inflation. All rewards in $SOUR. Real revenue from real Bakes.