Sovryn Financial Report Q4 2024 - Q4 2025

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Financial Overview and Strategic Outlook

The financial report (which can be found here) outlines the Treasury expenditure for the Sovryn protocol, over the period of Q4 2024 - Q4 2025.

Historical Spend Trends

Across 2025, the organization operated with an average monthly burn of approximately $274K, reflecting a growth-oriented phase with significant investment in both development and adoption.

Two key drivers of elevated expenses during the year were:

  • Adoption (Q2 2025):
    Expenses were temporarily inflated due to the repayment of a $93K liability related to 2024 conference and marketing activities. This represents a non-recurring cost and should not be interpreted as indicative of steady-state adoption spend.

  • Development (Q4 2025):
    Development costs increased due to the recognition and settlement of liabilities for third-party development services delivered throughout 2025. Similar to the Q2 adoption spike, this reflects timing of payments rather than a structural increase in ongoing costs. Overall, 2025 was characterised by high development costs for the Origins platform, Sovryn Layer (and associated Money Market) and reduction of previous technical debt.

Taken together, these factors mean that reported 2025 expenses overstate the true ongoing operating baseline, as they include catch-up payments from prior periods.

Treasury Position and Cost Reset

As of December 31, 2025, the treasury balance stood at $736,430.

Recognizing the need to align costs with long-term sustainability, the organization underwent a series of headcount reductions between November 2025 and February 2026. These actions significantly reduced fixed operating expenses.

  • New steady-state monthly burn: ~$45-50K (effective April 2026 onward)

  • This represents an ~84% reduction from the 2025 average burn

This transition marks a clear shift from a growth-at-all-costs model to a disciplined, efficiency-driven operating structure.

Forward-Looking Runway and Outlook

With the reduced cost base in place:

  • The treasury is projected to reach approximately **$395,000 by the end of Q1 2026
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  • Despite lowering monthly burn, without additional revenue injection to the Treasury, runway will be reduced to 8-9 months. The implication is that the protocol will not be sufficiently capitalized to ensure operations beyond the end of 2025 at most.

Key Implications:

  1. Runway Extension
    The organization has effectively transitioned from a short runway profile to a multi-quarter (potentially multi-year) survivability horizon, depending on future protocol revenue or funding events and depending on revenue injection to the Treasury.

  2. Optionality and Strategic Flexibility

Lower burn coupled with protocol revenue injection to the Treasury enables:

  • Selective reinvestment into high-ROI initiatives

  • Reduced dependence on near-term fundraising

  • Greater negotiating leverage in partnerships or capital raises

Summary

While 2025 financials reflect a period of elevated spend, the actions taken in late 2025 and early 2026 fundamentally reset the cost structure.

The result is a leaner, more resilient organization with a significantly reduced burn rate, extended runway, and improved financial clarity, however without directing protocol revenue to the Treasury, Sovryn will not have sufficient capital to continue operations in the long term.

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen Armando — their last post was 1 year ago.

since you have been absent for so long, but still in control of exchequer it is time to answer why we have sent 2 million dollars worth of BTC from Exchequer into OKEx, there is a forum post detailing adresses involved

if you expect us to believe you have spent 4 million dollars on whatever you AI slideshow suggests you must be kidding, Sovryn has made no advances during this time period, built nothing of such value, in fact we were told that we should sit back and wait on BOS launching

If we were to burn all of our treasury in such a short time span, why would it not be presented by a SIP first?

This is ridiculous, it clearly states you have not even showed up to forums for over a year during this whole time period

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The embezzlement of funds in here is obvious, no one is retarded.
You boys could have been honest, saying “well soo.. we gonna fund BitcoinOS, Charms and LitVM, and god knows what more, under the table so we can have a shot at this, to bootstrap all this ecosystem that we want and dream about” and if you did that and were honest, meaning sovryn stakers would get at least 35% the BOS tokens WHICH YOU ALREADY ARE STAKERS SO YOU WOULD GET THEM ALSO! but NO! You greedy fuckers had to use everyone funds to pay for it and gives us 10% while you secured for yourselves and your friends and family a nice 25% BOS founders bag.
EFFECTIVELY SIPHONING THE MONEY FROM OUR POCKET INTO YOURS POCKET!

If BitcoinOS ends up being a meh project (most likely will), you had already won, using those 25% tokens alocation to bid over everyone else on the Bitcoin fees that BOS will produce, while most of us sovryn stakers will never reach the breakeven on this elaborate scam, only if BOS ends up being a massive success, is when we get the bread crumbs while making you fuckers billionaires.
And now using the tech that we all paid for, smart boy yago and his friends and family will secure another founder bag on LitVM and so on.
Let’s be honest here for once, I know that it’s difficult for your kind to put yourself in ours shoes, but just think this though, what if someone else has done that scheming deceiving shit to you, how would be reacting right now, and would you trust those scammers into control of the treasury funds and stakers fees?
Would you believe in them ever again on whatever financial report or anything else?
Please don’t be retarded into thinking that you can just put your head into a hole and this will pass, and that the world is a big place because is not.

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MEDIA!

I can not get to anyone, do not have the clout.

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