SOV NETWORK

SOV Network (Self-Owned Value)

A sovereign network you actually own

One human, one wallet. Own your identity, your money, your messages, and your voice in how the rules are written — on a network no company controls and no government depends on.

SOV isn't a blockchain — it's a sovereign, proof-of-personhood mesh: self-contained nodes, one human one wallet, no central operator, no app store.

Free to join, nothing to buy. The first 10,000 citizens are each welcomed with 1,000 SOV.

Problems SOV solves

Real problems people search for every day, and what SOV Network does about them.

Lost your crypto key?

With most crypto, a lost key means the money is gone for good. SOV gives you 12 words, a backup file and up to five guardians who can move your account to a new key.

How you get back in →

Money for your family when you die

A built-in Vault: choose the amount, a release date and a beneficiary, with family keys as a fallback.

How inheritance works →

Private messages, no phone number

End-to-end encrypted, no phone number or email, and nodes keep no message content.

What is kept, precisely →

No bots, no fake accounts

One real person, one account, checked on your own phone. No bot farm can make a thousand of them.

How the check works →

What SOV is

Not a blockchain — a Sovereign Mesh. Self-contained nodes gossip peer-to-peer with no centre, and its one new idea is proof of personhood: one human, one wallet, proven by a palm and face check made on your own phone. Identity, messaging, justice, and governance on one protocol.

One human, one wallet

Your palm and face prove you are one unique person — the photos never leave your phone; only protected numeric fingerprints do. The network refuses a second enrolment, so nobody joins a hundred times. Everyone counts equally.

Your money, your rules

Send SOV in seconds. The fee is 0.1% of the payment, never more than 1 SOV, set by citizen vote, and it goes to the people running the network, not a bank. Fixed 50,000,000 supply.

Messaging & justice built in

Messages route through standard ports and work behind firewalls; nodes pass on only encrypted messages and keep none of them. Disputes are settled by randomly-selected citizen juries, not courts.

Owned by the people who run it

Self-contained nodes, no central operator list, no single switch to flip. Anyone can run one, and earn for keeping the network alive.

What Bitcoin left unfinished

Bitcoin proved money doesn't need a bank. SOV Network (Self-Owned Value) finishes the job.

With BitcoinWith SOV
Lose your key and your money is gone for everGet back in with your 12 words, a backup file, or guardians you trust
Huge mining farms burning energyNo mining. Ordinary computers keep the network running
One vote per coin, so the rich decideOne person, one vote on every rule
Bots and fake accounts everywhereOne real person, one account
Money onlyIdentity, money, private messages and votes in one network

How SOV stays secure without mining →

No app store. No company. No mining.

That is the point. A network that belongs to its users can't hang on one company's switch.

Not in any app store, on purpose

One company owns each app store and can remove an app for everyone overnight. SOV comes straight from this site, GitHub, IPFS and BitTorrent. Every release is signed, and once installed the nodes find each other by themselves.

No company, no owner

Nobody to pressure, buy or shut down, just like Bitcoin. Citizens run the nodes and vote on the rules, one person, one vote. You don't have to trust a face: the code is open, and every node proves the exact code it runs.

Secure without mining

Every node checks every rule, no money moves without its owner's signature, and a majority of nodes must approve every spend: the same 600 SOV sent twice at the same moment was paid once and refused once, live. One real person, one account, so no fake crowds and no energy-hungry mining.

Read the full answer: why SOV needs no app store, no company and no mining →

Watch it work

Recorded on the live network: joining with your palm, sending SOV, messages, the exchange, the vault, votes, running a node and Sign in with SOV.

SOV Network: watch it work, live

The full walkthrough (10 min)

Every part of the app, step by step, on the real network.

Watch on YouTube →
The Hard Questions: privacy, data and how SOV Network really works

The Hard Questions (14 min)

Every doubt people raise, asked straight and answered straight: Worldcoin, your palm and face data, the free 1,000 SOV, whether it was tested, why it is not on the app stores, scams, privacy and who sets the value.

Watch on YouTube →
SOV Network: your identity, money and voice, owned by you

What SOV Network is (3 min)

Identity, money, speech and law, owned by the people who use them.

Watch on YouTube →

Follow: YouTube · TikTok · Reddit. The videos open on those sites; this page loads nothing from them.

Watch them all in one playlist →

A quick look at the app

Real screens from the SOV app. The phone app and the desktop app look the same — only the desktop can also run a Full Node.

Scan your palm 1

Scan your palm

Phone (APK)
  1. Hold your open palm inside the frame until it locks (green corners)
Send SOV 1 2 3

Send SOV

Phone + Desktop
  1. Paste the recipient's SOV ID
  2. Enter the amount
  3. Tap "Send SOV" — it arrives in seconds
SOV Speak — encrypted messages 1 2

SOV Speak — encrypted messages

Phone + Desktop
  1. SOV Speak — private end-to-end encrypted chats
  2. Tap the pencil to start a new secure conversation
My Vaults 1 2

My Vaults

Phone + Desktop
  1. My Vaults — SOV you've locked away
  2. Create a vault — a family claim key + keyword, recoverable by a citizen jury if the key is ever lost
Constitution — vote protocols on or off 1

Constitution — vote protocols on or off

Phone + Desktop
  1. Vote protocols on or off — such as SOV Enclave and SOV Login

See the full tour, step by step (10 stages) →

Download

Self-contained apps for every platform. Verify the signature — no host is trusted.

Android APK

Install directly.
Download APK

Windows portable

Portable — also runs as a full node.
Download for Windows

macOS .app

Also runs as a full node. Unsigned/ad-hoc — first launch needs right-click → Open.
Apple Silicon · Intel

Linux

Run a node or the wallet.
All downloads & source

Verify

Every release ships a signed manifest (currently one release key; threshold signing comes later) — the signature is inside it (sigs, ed25519). Check it before installing.
signed manifest · checksums

GitHub down or blocked where you are? These files are also seeded over BitTorrent by a network node (with GitHub as a web seed) — no account needed. Get the magnet links →

Learn & run it

Everything is public — read before you install, and host a node yourself.

Knowledge Bank

Why SOV exists, how to use it, and the protocols behind it — identity, fees, governance, justice, SOV Link.

Read the Knowledge Bank →

Run a Node

Host a node on Oracle / Google / AWS or your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer — including the firewall rules that actually matter — and earn the operator payout.

Read the operator guide →