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The current price of Sophon is $0.00179 with a 8.62% change in the last 24 hours.
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Sophon is a crypto consumer-product project whose direction changed substantially during 2026. It launched in December 2024 as a general-purpose ZK Stack blockchain aimed at entertainment and consumer applications, and it now describes itself in its own documentation as a technology studio that builds onchain consumer products on Base, with the original Sophon Chain in a planned wind-down.
SOPH is the project's token. It is an ERC-20 native to Ethereum at 0x6B7774CB12ed7573a7586E7D0e62a2A563dDd3f0 with 18 decimals. It was issued as the Sophon Chain's gas and staking asset, and its documented role is being rebuilt around product revenue rather than chain activity.
Anyone reading older material about Sophon should treat the "entertainment ZK chain" framing as historical. The current official documentation is explicit that the chain is being retired.
Official sources:
Sophon was built by a team associated with the ZKsync ecosystem and launched its mainnet in December 2024 as a ZK Stack chain. Individual founder attribution is not presented prominently in the current official documentation, so this page does not name individuals.
The documented history has three clear phases. The first is the pre-mainnet period, when an Ethereum mainnet farm accumulated deposits ahead of launch. The second is the chain era, with a Guardian node program, staking, gasless transactions through paymasters, and a consumer application layer. The third began in 2026, when Sophon disabled new deposits into its own chain on June 25, 2026, removed the chain from the LayerZero network, and announced that its applications would be built on Base instead.
The current model and the legacy model are different enough that they are worth separating.
Legacy chain architecture
Sophon v1 was a Validium built with the ZK Stack. Transaction data was kept off Ethereum with Avail used as the external data-availability layer, while validity proofs for batches were verified on Ethereum. The chain used native account abstraction and paymasters, so applications could sponsor gas and users could sign up with familiar login methods instead of managing a seed phrase from day one. The mainnet chain ID is 50104. A live JSON-RPC check in September 2026 confirmed the chain was still answering and still producing blocks, consistent with the documented wind-down rather than an abrupt shutdown.
The current product model Sophon says its applications are now built on Base. The first announced application is Pyre, a payment product whose stated revenue sources are card interchange, vault performance fees, and reserve yield from PYRUSD, its settlement stablecoin. Sophon has not published a replacement chain roadmap.
Token value linkage Instead of gas demand, the published model routes a portion of product profits into open-market SOPH purchases, with purchased tokens permanently burned rather than redistributed.
SOPH's utility is in transition, and the honest description is that one set of uses is being retired while another is being introduced.
SOPH launched with an original issuance of 10,000,000,000 tokens, allocated across seven buckets: 2,000,000,000 to node operators and Guardians, 2,500,000,000 to core contributors, 2,600,000,000 to an ecosystem reserve, 1,800,000,000 to seed investors, 600,000,000 to a pre-mainnet liquidity mining airdrop, 300,000,000 to a bonus airdrop, and 200,000,000 to post-mainnet liquidity mining. Sophon describes the original community share as 57 percent. There is no protocol issuance mechanism that adds to this, because the Ethereum token contract exposes no mint function.
The burn mechanism is verifiable rather than promotional. A direct read of the Ethereum contract confirms that burn(uint256) and burnFrom(address,uint256) exist, that no minting entry point exists, and that the contract's reported total supply is 9,953,500,000 SOPH, which is exactly 46,500,000 below the original issuance. That matches the first announced burn, funded by the unutilized staking-reward pool and node buybacks. Administrative ownership of the contract sits with a 3-of-5 multisig.
Compared with Layer 2 networks that continue to compete on throughput, fees, and ecosystem grants, Sophon has stepped out of that competition. Where a ZK rollup keeps transaction data on Ethereum, Sophon v1 used a Validium design that kept data with Avail, which lowered cost but placed data availability outside Ethereum. Where most token models depend on network usage, the current SOPH model depends on whether a small number of consumer products become profitable.
The practical difference for a reader is that evaluating Sophon today means evaluating a product company and a burn policy, not a blockchain's traffic.
Security has two layers today. The SOPH token itself is an Ethereum ERC-20, so it inherits Ethereum's settlement security, and its supply behavior is constrained by contract code that cannot mint. Administrative control over the token contract rests with a multisig, which reduces single-key risk but does not eliminate governance risk.
The legacy chain's security rested on ZK validity proofs verified on Ethereum, with data availability provided by Avail. Because the chain is winding down, that stack should be treated as a legacy system rather than an active security guarantee. Sophon publishes its audit and security references in its documentation.
Sophon is a useful case study in what happens when a funded chain concludes that operating infrastructure is not where its advantage lies. Rather than keep a lightly used chain alive, it published a migration plan, moved application work to Base, retired its light-node requirement, and rewrote its token model around revenue. Whether the new model works is unproven, but the transparency of the wind-down documentation is unusual and makes the project easier to evaluate than most pivots.
SOPH trades on centralized exchanges and on decentralized venues across the networks where official representations are deployed. Availability and trading pairs vary by jurisdiction. Before trading onchain, confirm the contract address for the network you are using against the official documentation, since SOPH has deployments on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Beam in addition to the legacy chain.
SOPH is often available on venues such as:
Pairs are commonly quoted against USDT where supported.
Because SOPH exists on several networks, always verify that the network and contract address match before depositing or withdrawing. Assets still sitting on the legacy Sophon Chain should be moved out through the official claim and withdrawal portal.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Sophon is $0.00179 with a 8.62% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $4,245,954 representing a 254.00% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Sophon is $8,933,608, ranking #677 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Sophon is $17,905,882, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 10,000,000,000 SOPH is in circulation.
Circulating: 4,989,202,842. Total: 10,000,000,000. Max: 10,000,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Sophon traded between a low of $0.001619 and a high of $0.002008.
SOPH/USDTTether USDT0.00179 USDT
Sophon plans to shut down its blockchain on November 30, but users have been told to withdraw their assets by November 25. Some of the websites and infrastructure needed to complete that work may start closing after the earlier date.…
Sophon sets November 25 as the deadline to withdraw SOPH, ETH, USDC and rewards before its planned November 30 blockchain shutdown, warning users to act early.
In June, Sophon’s developers said the costs of maintaining a standalone blockchain no longer justified its benefits and announced plans to focus on consumer finance and AI applications on Base.
Upbit flagged SOPH for review and halted deposits, while Binance will remove seven USDC spot pairs on Sept. 25 over liquidity and volume.
Binance adds GLMR, ICX, MOVR, RARE and SOPH to its Monitoring Tag list, placing all five tokens under closer review for potential delisting.
Sophon shutters its L2 to join Base, MIM drops to $0.53, and Synthetix moves to retire sUSD, as market forces reshape crypto infrastructure and stablecoin.
