A visual tour of the app

One palm, one citizen

The onboarding explains it: your palm's crease pattern proves you are one unique person; your 12 words restore your wallet.

Begin enrollment

1. Tap "Begin Enrollment" to create your wallet

Allow the camera

1. Tap "While using the app" — needed for the liveness + palm scan

Prove you're a live person

1. Follow the on-screen challenge — turn, move sideways, come closer or move back — so no photo or video can fake it

Scan your palm

1. Hold your open palm inside the frame until it locks (green corners)

One human = one wallet

1. If your palm is already enrolled, tap "Recover My Wallet" instead of making a second account

Start on a new device

1. On a fresh install tap Recover My Wallet — not "Join the Network". Joining again would try to create a second account, which one human = one wallet refuses

Prove the wallet is yours

1. Seed phrase — your 12 words, or the .sov backup file you saved when you enrolled
2. Guardians — last resort, for when the words and the file are both gone

Words, or the file

1. Type the 12 words yourself
2. Or open the backup file. On some phones the file picker briefly closes the app — that is the system, not a crash. Reopen SOV and it carries on

Your 12 words

1. Paste all words fills every box at once if you copied them together
2. Tap Restore Wallet. The words never leave the device — they rebuild the key here

If you used the backup file

1. Enter the password you set when you saved the file. The file alone is not enough — it is encrypted, so a stolen copy is useless without this
2. Tap Restore Wallet

Back in

1. The app checks your restored key against the network and your balance and recent history come back. Messages live on devices, never on a node. Nothing was ever held for you by a company

Last resort: your guardians

1. A recovery code appears (blurred here). Send it to your guardians — it is useless to anyone who is not one
2. Your guardians approve from their own wallets (currently 2 needed, set by vote) before the recovery completes. No single person can do it for you

Home

1. Send SOV to anyone by their SOV ID
2. Receive — show a QR to get paid
3. Exchange SOV for cash or services

Send SOV

1. Paste the recipient's SOV ID
2. Enter the amount
3. Tap "Send SOV" — it arrives in seconds

Receive SOV

1. Your pay-to QR code — let anyone scan it to pay you
2. Copy your ID, share it, or request a specific amount

Exchange — browse offers

1. Browse citizens' offers and fill one — the seller's SOV stays in escrow until the seller confirms your payment arrived

Exchange — sell or offer a service

1. List SOV for sale at your price
2. Or list a paid service — a certification helps clients trust you

Exchange — order book

1. The live order book — open depth and recent fills, in the open

SOV Speak — encrypted messages

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

Contacts

1. Your saved citizens — message or pay them in a tap

SOV Enclave — the public town square

The Enclave has been on since genesis: any citizen can post and any citizen can flag spam — and citizens can vote to switch it off.

1. SOV Enclave — on since genesis; a citizen vote in the Constitution tab can switch it off

Groups

1. Group chats — many citizens, one encrypted thread

My Vaults

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

Claim a Vault

1. Claim a vault left to you — prove it with the family keyword

Justice Council

1. If chosen, you help a family recover a vault — citizens protecting citizens

Justice

1. Justice — cases you're a juror on
2. File a dispute with a 10 SOV bond — a random jury of 3 to 7 citizens judges it; each juror has 48 hours to respond

Constitution — vote protocols on or off

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

Votes

1. Every open vote — one enrolled human, one vote

Petitions

1. Start or sign a petition to force a network-wide vote

The live network — the nodes you're connected to

1. Every node you're connected to, live — a green dot means connected
2. The count of nodes carrying the network right now

Economy — the 50M cap, in the open

1. Pools + wallets always add up to the 50,000,000 cap — verify it yourself

How citizens reach your home node

Behind home internet? Pick how people reach you — the node handles the rest.

1. Automatic — router or circuit-relay through a public node (zero setup)
2. Tailscale Funnel — a free public address, no port-forwarding
3. Static IP / port-forward — if you run your own server

Academy — learn & certify

1. Take a track, pass the test, earn a certification you can charge clients for

Profile & security

1. Set or require a PIN so no one else can open your wallet
2. Proof of Life keeps your vaults sealed to you

Register a Platform

Profile → Register a Platform. Your registration is signed by your wallet; a yearly SOV fee (currently 10 SOV) goes to the node operator pool.

1. Enter your website's domain
2. Your callback URL — where the network sends the signed login result
3. Tap "Register & Pay Fee" — done. Citizens can now sign in to your site with their SOV ID

Signing in to a website — what the citizen sees

On the website they click "Sign in with SOV"; the wallet shows this. They type the 6-digit code from the site — one tap proves they are a real, unique human.

1. The website shows a 6-digit code — type it here
2. It proves your personhood ONCE — the site never sees your wallet, messages, or anything else
3. Tap Continue, then choose a password for this site only — you are signed in as a verified human