Sanaol ($SANA) - Whitepaper

The Philippines loses an estimated ₱700B annually to corruption and inefficiency. Citizens cannot easily track the ₱5T+ national budget and trust in public processes remains low.

Pilots on foreign networks show promise but raise sovereignty, resiliency, and governance concerns.

Sanaol ($SANA) is a sovereign Layer-1 (Rust, PoS) with a dual mission:

Transparency & Trust - budgets and subsidies on-chain with verifiable audit trails.
Innovation & Inclusion - a low-fee, open platform for Filipino builders and communities.

Mission

Make every budget peso traceable with cryptographic integrity.
Provide a sovereign Layer-1 for Filipino innovators and institutions.
Lower barriers with AI copilots for citizens and developers.
Enable payments, DAOs, remittances, and community finance.

The Problem

Annual waste and leakage across public spending.
Delayed, siloed, or inaccessible audits.
Dependence on non-sovereign infrastructure for critical systems.
High friction for local builders (costs, tooling, knowledge).
Millions remain outside the formal digital economy.

The Solution: Sanaol Chain

Transparency Layer

Immutable ledger for budgets, contracts, and disbursements.
Programmatic subsidies with milestone-based releases.
AI anomaly detection for ghost projects and overpriced bids.
Citizen Copilot Q&A on funds and deliverables.

Innovation Layer

Open platform for startups, DAOs, and communities.
Payments, NFTs, gaming, with ₱1-level gas fees.
AI Dev Copilot to scaffold, test, and deploy contracts.

How It Works - Budget Flow

Funds move from appropriation to milestone-based disbursements under programmatic control. Every step is recorded on-chain; citizens and auditors verify via the explorer.

Architecture

Rust-based PoS with deterministic execution and safe concurrency.
Validators: universities, LGUs, agencies, NGOs, and citizen operators.
Data availability and archival layers for auditability and research.
AI audit/dev copilots; optional ZK proofs to protect PII.
Explorer, SDKs, CLI, faucets, and grants to bootstrap builders.

Validation & Data Pipeline

Transactions propagate → validated by a diverse PoS set → finalized blocks → indexed for queries & analytics.

Subsidy Lifecycle

Eligibility proofs, escrow, oracle-verified milestones, and transparent release history.

Developer Toolchain

CLI/SDK + templates → local test → deploy → observe via logs, explorer, and metrics APIs.

Governance Flow

Proposal → discussion → vote (stake-weighted / delegated) → enactment → audit.

AI Blockchain

On-Chain AI Services

Inference marketplace where validators (or specialized AI operators) provide ML inference as a metered service with on-chain receipts.
Deterministic outputs committed via Merkle proofs; optional ZK-ML proofs to verify models/inputs without exposing sensitive data.
Use cases: anomaly detection for budget overspend, entity resolution for contractors, citizen Q&A on programs.

AI Oracles & ZK-ML

Oracle layer pulls data from official gazettes, procurement portals, and LGU dashboards; hashes and timestamps evidence on-chain.
ZK-ML pipelines publish succinct proofs of model integrity and bounded bias checks, enabling auditable AI decisions.
Grants for local models (finance, law, education) deployed to the marketplace with revenue share.

Principles: openness, explainability, and safety. AI augments human auditors, not replaces them.

Forum-Based Community

A public, moderated forum serves as the hub for governance, developer support, grant proposals, release notes, RFCs, and knowledge base articles. Threaded discussions are linked to on-chain proposals and treasury disbursements to preserve context.

Governance: proposal drafts, rationale, and impact assessments prior to on-chain voting.
Builder Support: tutorials, cookbook recipes, and code reviews by core devs and ambassadors.
Community Programs: bounties, mentorship, and regional meetups ("Barangay Builders").

Election Voting (Organizations & LGUs)

Sanaol provides rails for verifiable, privacy-preserving elections for universities, cooperatives, professional associations, and LGUs (where legally permissible).

Eligibility: allowlists anchored to ID registries; optional ZK age/residency proofs.
Ballot Secrecy: ElGamal/Paillier homomorphic tally or mixnets; results published with proofs.
Auditability: public bulletin board of commitments; end-to-end verifiability for independent observers.
Accessibility: mobile/web ballots with offline QR handoff and kiosk modes for underserved areas.

Note: Governance parameters for public-sector use will conform to applicable laws and COMELEC guidance.

Blockchain School

Curriculum & Certifications

Tracks: Web3 Foundations, Rust Smart Contracts, Validator Operations, ZK & Cryptography, AI-Blockchain.
Micro-credentials and stackable certificates jointly issued with partner universities.
Hands-on labs with local testnet, faucets, and graded deployments.

Grants, Hackathons, Careers

Seed grants (₱50k-₱1M) for student/faculty projects with public-good impact.
Quarterly hackathons; winners receive milestone-based grants and accelerator slots.
Validator apprenticeship and community ambassador programs.

Integrated Wallet

Web & Mobile: non-custodial wallet with keystore export/import, biometric unlock (mobile), and hardware wallet roadmap.
Phantom Support: seamless connect; in-browser wallet fallback with bs58 keystore.
Built-ins: address book, transaction notes, QR send/receive, fee estimator, and multi-network switch.
Security: E2E local encryption, phishing warnings, domain-binding for dApp permissions.

Networks: Testnet & Mainnet

Public Testnet

Open validator set with scorecards (uptime, liveness, governance participation).
Explorer, RPC (rate-limited), and faucet for developers.
Incentivized testing: bug bounties, testnet points convertible in airdrop windows.

Mainnet

Gradual decentralization targets and foundation exit timelines.
On-chain governance and parameter updates gated by audits.
Priority dApps: Budget Explorer, Subsidy Programs, Voting, and Community Grants.
BNB Chain: we will launch on BNB ASAP for its $SANA peg and liquidity bootstrapping (bridge and peg details to follow).

Airdrop: Tasks to Earn

A fair launch program aligning distribution with real contributions. Points convert to airdrop allocations during claim windows.

Developer Tasks: deploy sample contracts, submit PRs to SDK/docs, publish tutorials.
Validator Tasks: maintain uptime, participate in governance, run community endpoints.
Community Tasks: forum guides, Tagalog translations, verified meetups/workshops.
Civic Tasks: test the Budget Explorer, file issue reports with reproducible steps.

Sybil resistance: GitHub+wallet binding, signed forum accounts, device-risk scoring, and random audits.

Faucet

Rate-limited per wallet/IP/device with proof-of-humanity checks.
Developer boosts for merged PRs or verified bug reports.
Public API for CI pipelines to request small amounts for automated testing (with caps).

$SANA Tokenomics

Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 $SANA (1B)

30% - Community Incentives & Adoption Programs (incl. Airdrops & Learn-to-Earn)
20% - Validator Rewards
20% - Ecosystem Grants (Builders, Research, Public Goods)
15% - Partnerships & Strategic Programs
10% - Treasury (resilience, audits, emergency response)
5% - Foundation (vesting, operations)

Utility: gas, staking, governance, collateral in DAOs, and aligned incentives for auditors, developers, and validators.

Emissions and unlock schedules are time-locked on-chain. Treasury actions require on-chain governance with forum discussion links.

Phased Rollout

Phase 1 - Awareness

Launch $SANA coin and public vision.
Prototype explorer at sanaol.net.

Phase 2 - Testnet

Rust-based chain with university/LGU validators.
Citizen wallet + AI Copilot.
Builder grants and audits of pilot programs.

Phase 3 - Mainnet

Budgets & subsidies on-chain with milestone oracles.
Filipino DAOs, dApps, remittances, and local commerce.
AI + ZK-ML auditing for continuous assurance.

Use Cases

Government: budget tracking, procurement transparency, subsidy programs.
Citizens: payments, savings groups, barangay DAOs, transparent donations.
Startups: NFTs, games, fintech rails; open data for insights.
Institutions: research, compliance, and public dashboards.

Closing Notes

We present a sovereign, verifiable ledger for public finance and an open platform for innovation. Combining a Rust-based Proof-of-Stake protocol with programmatic transparency, zero-knowledge options, and citizen-grade tooling aligns incentives for accountability and growth.

The rollout is incremental: pilots -> public testnets -> mainnet with broad validator participation. Budget flows become auditable end-to-end, while builders gain low-fee rails for locally relevant apps.

The system functions without a central point of trust yet remains publicly inspectable - enabling citizens, institutions, and developers to cooperate on a durable digital foundation.

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