Question
Provide a concise narrative that clearly states each of (a)–(e) below.
Response
Sentient targets the centralization of AI development inside a small number of large proprietary companies. The project builds an open, community-owned AGI network that no single organization controls, and replaces a closed and fragmented AI landscape with shared open infrastructure.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch, SENT Tokenomics)
Operations center on expanding the GRID network of AI artifacts, routing user demand through Sentient Chat, and rewarding builders and stakers through programmatic token emissions and revenue shares from user payments. Sentient Foundation provides governance stewardship while Sentient Labs runs research and product development.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview, Sentient Foundation Launch)
Sentient operates the GRID, an open network of modular AI artifacts spanning models, agents, data sources, and tools. Users interact through Sentient Chat, and builders contribute artifacts into the network to earn a share of rewards.
(Source: Sentient Overview, SENT Tokenomics)
SENT is the economic coordination layer of the GRID. Holders stake on artifacts, delegate to elected network representatives, pay for ecosystem services across models, data, and agents, and participate in DAO-governed reward distribution.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
The control surface is governance-linked. The Sentient DAO sets the emission rate and distribution parameters, DAO-elected network representatives govern reward allocation, and holders stake with representatives or artifacts to shape rewards and governance. Sentient Foundation guides governance during the initial phase, and full DAO control activates in a later protocol phase.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Question
For each existing entity: Labs/DevCo (e.g., Founder, CEO, CTO, COO), Foundation (e.g., President, Executive Director, CFO, COO), and DAO / onchain governance leadership (if applicable) list the: (a) full names, (b) official titles, (c) and prior experience of key team members. For any non-existent entity, explicitly mention it does not exist. External links may be included but they will not factor into the score.
Response
Full Name | Entity | Official Title | Prior Experience |
|---|---|---|---|
Sandeep Nailwal | Labs | Co-founder | Co-founder of Polygon, one of the largest Ethereum scaling networks |
Pramod Viswanath | Labs | Co-founder | Forrest G. Hamrick Professor of Engineering at Princeton University and co-inventor of Flash-OFDM, the technology underlying the 4G wireless standard |
Himanshu Tyagi | Labs | Co-founder | Professor of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science and co-founder of Witness Chain |
Sentient Foundation is a global nonprofit incorporated in Singapore. It launched publicly on February 19, 2026 and stewards research, governance, grants, and open-source AGI alignment standards. The Foundation has not published a named officer roster in sources reviewed, and no individual officeholders are disclosed for the Foundation entity. | Foundation | ||
Sentient runs a liquid-democracy DAO in which SENT holders elect network representatives who govern reward allocation. No individual named leaders hold the governance layer, because representative seats are elected by tokenholders rather than appointed. | DAO | ||
Blockworks note: (Source: The Block Funding, CoinDesk, Wamda, Daily Princetonian, Sentient Foundation Launch, Forbes, SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview) |
Question
Provide a structured description of the DAO's governance, powers, and economic rights. If a DAO does not exist, state so. Address the lettered items below. Even if there is no DAO, there must be an answer to (d).
Response
The split of IP, codebases, trademarks, and brand assets between the Sentient DAO, Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd., and Sentient Foundation is not publicly disclosed.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
Sentient operates a liquid-democracy DAO in which every SENT token carries voting power. Holders vote directly on proposals or delegate voting power to elected network representatives, who form a council that governs reward allocation. Governance proposals are debated and executed onchain through smart contracts. Sentient Foundation guides the process during the initial protocol phase, and full DAO authority activates in a later phase.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Holders stake on artifacts, delegate to representatives, vote directly or by delegation, and participate in protocol parameter votes and community-fund allocation votes during the public rollout phases. Staking is the mechanism through which holders access governance influence and reward participation.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Holder rights are governance-linked and incentive-linked rather than dividend-based. Builders earn token emissions and a share of revenue from user payments, and holders stake and participate in reward allocation and governance. The Foundation treasury funds protocol operations, security, and market growth, with DAO control in a later phase. Sentient does not disclose any direct revenue-distribution right from treasury assets to holders.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
The holder of dissolution authority over the DAO and the mechanism for exercising it are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Question
For the Primary Foundation do the following independently. If an entity does not exist, state that explicitly. Items (a)–(f) apply only if that entity exists; state explicitly that the entity doesn't exist.
Definitions: The primary Foundation and DevCo can be explained as those entities which are directly involved in the issuance of the native token at launch.
Response
Sentient Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Singapore and operating globally.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
The IP, repositories, trademarks, brand assets, and any subsidiary entities that Sentient Foundation owns or controls are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
The Foundation's formal powers over DAO governance, treasury actions, protocol-controlled resources, token administration, and reward parameters, and the method and threshold for each, are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Whether the Foundation exerts direct or indirect influence over the decision-making of Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. is not publicly disclosed.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
The Foundation's pause, upgrade, or governance-executor authorities, and the method and threshold for each, are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
The governance-approved, contractual, or programmatic mechanisms by which protocol-controlled resources, treasury assets, fees, revenue, rewards, or token distributions are directed to the Foundation or its contributors are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Blockworks note: Sentient Foundation is the primary foundation. It is a nonprofit incorporated in Singapore and operating globally, and it launched publicly on February 19, 2026. Its mandate covers research, governance, grants, public advocacy, and alignment standards for open-source AGI, and it operates alongside Sentient Labs as the long-term steward of the ecosystem. The Foundation runs a 42 million dollar Open-Source AGI Grant and Investment Program.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch, Forbes)
Question
For the Primary DevCo do the following independently. If an entity does not exist, state that explicitly. Items (a)–(f) apply only if that entity exists; state explicitly that the entity doesn't exist.
Definitions: The primary Foundation and DevCo can be explained as those entities which are directly involved in the issuance of the native token at launch.
Response
Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. is an exempt private company limited by shares incorporated in Singapore.
(Source: The Block Funding, RootData)
The IP, repositories, trademarks, brand assets, and any subsidiary entities that Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. owns or controls are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: RootData)
Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd.'s formal powers over DAO governance, treasury actions, protocol-controlled resources, token administration, and reward parameters, and the method and threshold for each, are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Whether Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. exerts direct or indirect influence over the decision-making of Sentient Foundation is not publicly disclosed.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd.'s pause, upgrade, or governance-executor authorities, and the method and threshold for each, are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
The governance-approved, contractual, or programmatic mechanisms by which protocol-controlled resources, treasury assets, fees, revenue, rewards, or token distributions are directed to Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. or its equityholders are not publicly disclosed.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Blockworks note: Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. is the primary DevCo. It is an exempt private company limited by shares incorporated in Singapore, and it develops the software and applications behind Sentient. Sentient Labs conducts research in reasoning, alignment, and multi-agent coordination and builds the frameworks and models that power the GRID. Sentient Foundation describes Sentient Labs as working alongside it.
(Source: The Block Funding, RootData, Sentient Foundation Launch)
Question
Disclose launch and initial supply details in a single initial allocation schedule covering the token's launch.
Response
Total supply is 34,359,738,368 SENT, exactly 2 to the 35th power. Sentient published this figure in its official tokenomics release on January 16, 2026, and Binance confirmed it in the Prime Sale that offered 687,194,767 SENT, 2 percent of total supply, at a fixed price. An earlier draft referenced a 10,000,000,000 supply figure from an older whitepaper version, and the January 2026 tokenomics release supersedes it. (Source: SENT Tokenomics, Phemex, KuCoin, ICO Drops)
The Binance Wallet Prime Sale priced SENT at 0.01106 dollars per token on January 19, 2026 and raised 7.6 million dollars against a pre-sale valuation of 380 million dollars. SENT began exchange trading on January 22, 2026. (Source: BTCC Prime Sale, CoinCarp, ICO Drops)
SENT (Source: ICO Drops, DropsTab)
Total supply is 34,359,738,368 SENT. Sentient runs a 2 percent annual emission that flows into a dedicated Community Emission Pool, with unspent amounts locking at year-end and a fresh allocation set the following year. The Sentient DAO controls the emission rate and distribution parameters through governance. (Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Question
Address each of the following sub-items based on the project's airdrop status. If a sub-item does not apply to the project's situation, state that explicitly.
Response
Planned but not yet executed airdrop: Partially applicable. The initial TGE airdrop has been executed and the registration portal closed on November 29, 2025. However, the community incentives and airdrops allocation continues to release linearly over four years from the token generation event, with 70 percent of the allocation still unlocking through November 2029. Sentient has not published a schedule, eligibility criteria, or allocation methodology for distributions from the remaining unlocked portion, and has not committed to publishing recipient wallet lists for those distributions or providing them to Blockworks on a quarterly basis.
Executed airdrop: The airdrop has been executed. The community incentives and airdrops allocation of 44 percent of supply began distributing at the token generation event on November 22, 2025, with 30 percent unlocked at that event and the remaining 70 percent releasing linearly over four years.
Covered user segments: Community contributors to Sentient-related open-source efforts, active users of Sentient Chat, top voices and consistent contributors on social platforms, and external open-source researchers.
Allocation method: Not disclosed. Sentient has published participation requirements — linking multiple accounts and completing a one-time zero-knowledge selfie proof through the Billions protocol — but has not published the weighting, scoring, or tiering used to size individual allocations within or across the four segments.
Per-address source: None. No per-address airdrop file, Merkle dump, Dune table, GitHub repository embedding allocations, or RPC endpoint exposing claim/amount data has been identified in public sources.
Sources: ICO Drops, SENT Tokenomics
No airdrop planned or conducted: Not applicable. Sentient has conducted an airdrop, as described in (b).
Blockworks note: The 44 percent figure covers a combined "community incentives and airdrops" bucket rather than an airdrop-specific allocation. The portion of that bucket attributable to the TGE airdrop specifically is not broken out in the cited sources, so the airdrop's size cannot be stated independently of ongoing incentive programs.
Participation required identity verification through the Billions protocol, meaning eligibility was gated on a per-person proof rather than solely on wallet-level or onchain activity. This is a design choice that plausibly constrains what a per-address file could disclose, but it does not remove the disclosure gap — allocations still resolved to wallet addresses at distribution.
Question
Projects must disclose all material terms of market-making arrangements that affect token liquidity. If the project has no agreements or deals with market makers, state that explicitly; doing so earns full credit. For each market maker, include in a table:
If the project has no agreements or deals with market makers, state that explicitly; doing so earns full credit. If no native tokens were loaned or allocated to market makers, state that explicitly; cash/fiat retainers or fees are not required for this item.
Response
Blockworks note: No market-maker counterparties, token loan amounts, term durations, or agreement structures are publicly disclosed.
(Source: ICO Drops)
Question
Projects must disclose all material terms of centralized or decentralized exchange listings that affect token liquidity. For each listing, include in a table:
If the project has no agreements or deals with CEX or DEX, state that explicitly; doing so earns full credit; cash/fiat fee amounts are not required for this item.
Response
Blockworks note: SENT trades on multiple centralized exchanges. Binance listed SENT for trading on January 22, 2026, and Coinbase, OKX, and Upbit added SENT trading during 2026. No public source discloses token allocation commitments, listing lockup durations, liquidity program terms, or native-token listing fee amounts for any of these venues.
(Source: BTCC Prime Sale, ICO Drops, DropsTab)
Question
Disclose all prior token sales by the Project — including fundraising rounds, any material OTC sales to investors, and any discounted market-maker sales. For each sale, provide:
If no prior sales occurred, state that explicitly (e.g., "No prior fundraising, OTC, or discounted MM sales have occurred.").
Response
Blockworks note: Two fundraising events are documented. Sentient Labs closed an 85 million dollar seed round in May 2024, announced on July 2, 2024, co-led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, with participation from Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital, Hack VC, Delphi Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Foresight Ventures, Canonical Crypto, and Ethereal Ventures. Sentient then ran a Binance Wallet Prime Sale on January 19, 2026 that raised 7.6 million dollars.
(Source: The Block Funding, CoinDesk, Wamda, BTCC Prime Sale, ICO Drops, DropsTab)
Question
If any, list prior exploits or incidents that directly affected the token, token supply, tokenholder balances, token contract, minting controls, burn mechanics, or custody of token supply. This question is not asking about general protocol, application, or smart contract exploits unless the incident directly affected the native token itself.
If no prior incidents, state this explicitly (e.g., "No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds as of YYYY-MM-DD").
Response
No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds have been identified in public sources as of July 24, 2026.
No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds have been identified in public sources as of July 24, 2026.
No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds have been identified in public sources as of July 24, 2026.
No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds have been identified in public sources as of July 24, 2026.
No exploits affecting tokenholders or protocol funds have been identified in public sources as of July 24, 2026.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch, SENT Tokenomics)
Question
Describe material risk factors across the three categories below. Each category includes prompts to address at a minimum.
(a) Regulatory, Legal & Tax Risks — Describe how evolving laws and regulations could affect the project by answering, at a minimum, questions like:
Impact of Regulatory Change on TGE and Listings: (If applicable) How could evolving or conflicting laws and regulations affect your ability to complete the TGE, deliver tokens to purchasers, and list or maintain the token on trading venues in key jurisdictions?
Entity-Level Regulatory Impact: (If applicable) How could regulatory or legal changes impact your core entities (Foundation, DevCo, DAO, affiliated service providers), including enforcement actions, licensing requirements, or forced changes to structure or operations?
Tokenholder Tax Treatment: (If applicable) What uncertainties exist around how tokenholders may be taxed, and make clear that tokenholders are responsible for understanding their own tax obligations?
Jurisdictional & User Access Restrictions: (If applicable) If the project restricts access for certain jurisdictions or user types (e.g., U.S. persons, sanctioned countries, retail vs. professional), what are those restrictions and what risks do they create for users and for the project?
(b) Protocol, Technology & Security Risks — Describe risks to network and contract reliability, correctness, and safety by answering, at a minimum, questions like:
Bugs and Design Flaws: (If applicable) What bugs, design flaws, or implementation errors could exist in your core protocol code, smart contracts, and any bridges, rollups, or oracles that you depend on, and how could these lead to loss of funds or disruption of the protocol?
Security Measures & Their Limitations: (If applicable) What security measures have you taken (audits, formal verification, bug bounties), and what types of failures might these measures still fail to detect or prevent?
(c) Token Economics, Unlocks & Incentive Risks — Describe how the token's economic design and supply schedule could affect holders by answering, at a minimum, questions like:
Critical Economic Assumptions: (If applicable) Which economic assumptions (e.g., staking yields, fee revenue, liquidity incentives, MEV capture, demand for blockspace) are critical for protocol security, utility, and governance, and what happens if those assumptions fail?
Governance Control over Monetary Policy & Rewards: (If applicable) To what extent can governance change monetary policy, fee parameters, or reward allocations (e.g., inflation rate, treasury flows, incentive programs), and how could such changes adversely affect tokenholders?
Response
Impact of Regulatory Change on TGE and Listings
SENT is listed on Binance, OKX, Coinbase, and Upbit across multiple jurisdictions, and Sentient's terms bar users who are legally prohibited from access, are under 18, or are subject to sanctions restrictions. Regulatory shifts in a major jurisdiction, including tightened exchange licensing, token classification changes, or sanctions-list expansion, could produce delistings, trading restrictions, or an inability to distribute tokens to certain users. Sentient Foundation sits in Singapore and operates globally, so cross-border regulatory divergence creates ongoing compliance risk for both the Foundation and Sentient Labs.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch, BTCC Prime Sale)
Entity-Level Regulatory Impact
Sentient Foundation is a Singapore nonprofit and Sentient Labs Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore private company with United States operations. Changes in how Singapore or the United States treat crypto-linked nonprofits, software companies, or token issuers could force structural, operational, or licensing changes at either entity. The Foundation operates under evolving legal obligations across multiple jurisdictions and may need to respond to legal requests and cross-border data-transfer obligations.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch, The Block Funding)
Tokenholder Tax Treatment
The tax treatment of SENT varies by jurisdiction and is not determined by the project. Tokenholders carry responsibility for understanding and satisfying their own tax obligations arising from acquiring, holding, staking, or disposing of SENT.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics)
Jurisdictional & User Access Restrictions
Access is barred for users prohibited by applicable law or subject to sanctions programs, and the project has not published a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction access matrix. Users in restricted jurisdictions who access the protocol bear the risk that their participation violates applicable law.
(Source: Sentient Foundation Launch)
Bugs and Design Flaws
The GRID architecture spans multiple protocol layers, including artifact hosting, builder staking and commission controls, and onchain governance execution, so bugs or design flaws could distort routing logic, token emissions, monetization, or governance behavior across layers at once. Smart contracts on the GRID execute governance decisions onchain, which creates a surface for contract-level vulnerabilities. Sentient Chat outputs can be inaccurate or inappropriate, and users bear the risk of relying on those outputs.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Security Measures & Their Limitations
Sentient states that core protocol functionality underwent security audits before public launch phases. Audit reports are not publicly linked in the documentation set reviewed, and no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. The absence of published audit reports limits independent verification of the protocol's security posture.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Foundation Launch)
Critical Economic Assumptions
Sentient's incentive model depends on sustained builder contribution, user engagement, staking participation, and representative governance activity. Builders earn token emissions and a share of revenue from user payments, and holders influence reward flows through stake and governance. If builder or user participation falls below the level needed to sustain the incentive loop, emissions distribute to a smaller base and weaken the economic signal that attracts further contribution. Sentient sets annual emissions at 2 percent into a Community Emission Pool, and the DAO controls that parameter.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, Sentient Overview)
Governance Control over Monetary Policy & Rewards
The DAO controls emission rates and community-fund allocations through onchain governance, and changes to these parameters by governance vote directly affect supply distribution and alter incentive structures for builders, stakers, and delegates. The team allocation of 22 percent and the investor allocation of 12.45 percent both reach their cliff in approximately November 2026, which creates a known unlock event that increases circulating supply by a material amount roughly one year after the token generation event.
(Source: SENT Tokenomics, ICO Drops)
Question
Identify to the best of your ability the token's current deployments across chains, including project-issued deployments, project-endorsed representations, and, if possible, documented third-party wrapped or bridged representations.
For each entry, provide:
Multiple entries on the same chain are permitted.
Definition: A protocol-level asset is an asset whose balances and transfers are handled directly by the blockchain's core rules, rather than by a token smart contract. For protocol-level assets without a token contract address, enter "No contract address" and identify the asset and chain.
Response
This Token Transparency Filing is provided for general informational purposes only and does not verify or warrant the accuracy of individual answers.
