Risk Disclosure

01Read this before anything else

This page is a plain-language summary of Section 18 of the whitepaper, which is the authoritative version and should be read in full.

02Market and liquidity risk

SAPN has no trading history. Price may be highly volatile and may fall to zero. Early liquidity will be thin, meaning large orders can move the price significantly and exiting a position may be difficult or costly.

03Reward rates are caps, not guarantees

Every APY and yield figure published by this project is a cap calculated from a fixed emission pool of 40,000,000 SAPN, spent on a published schedule over roughly fourteen years. Rates decline as staking participation grows and as emission decays.

They are not, and must not be read as, promised or guaranteed yield. No reward is ever paid from new supply — the supply is fixed at 100,000,000 and the mint authority is permanently revoked.

Rewards are denominated in SAPN. Their value in any other currency moves with the token price, so a nominal yield can coincide with a loss in dollar terms if the price falls.

04Concentration risk

Until the treasury distribution described in Section 6.5 completes, the entire supply is controlled by a single wallet. Even afterwards, the founding team's influence over treasury and governance remains substantial for years.

The project currently depends on two named founders. The loss of either would materially affect execution. You are trusting a small, named team.

05Execution and funding risk

The roadmap spans a decade and depends on funding, partnerships, hiring and technology that are not yet in place. Milestones may be delayed, reduced in scope, or reordered.

The token sale targets $50,000 — a deliberately modest figure that funds the first phases, not the whole vision. Later phases depend on revenue streams, B2B verified offsetting in particular, that are planned but unproven. If those do not materialise, later tree targets are not reachable on the stated timeline.

Stewardship. Planting creates an obligation that outlives the emission schedule. Beyond roughly year ten, monitoring depends on recurring revenue rather than planting margin; if that revenue does not materialise, the scope of stewardship narrows to site-level reporting.

06Partner and verification risk

Trees are planted by third-party reforestation partners. Partners may underperform, misreport, or fail. Sapling mortality is real, and the 20% discount factor used throughout our figures is an estimate that may prove optimistic in a given region or season.

Verification reduces this risk. It does not eliminate it.

07Narrative and competition risk

The crypto footprint is shrinking. Ethereum's move to Proof of Stake removed over 99.9% of its footprint, efficient chains keep gaining share, and the Solana Foundation already purchases offsets against its network's emissions. A project positioned solely as “cleaning up crypto” would face a shrinking purpose.

The market is contested. Corporate tree planting has well-funded incumbents selling verified planting from roughly $0.43 per tree, and on-chain offsetting on Solana is already served by Sunrise Stake and ecoToken. We do not compete on price. If buyers do not value vendor-independent, on-chain proof enough to pay a premium for it, the B2B thesis does not hold.

08Regulatory and listing risk

Digital-asset regulation is evolving in every jurisdiction relevant to this project, including Türkiye and the EU. Future rules may restrict the sale, staking products, or the token's utility; may require restructuring; or may make some functions unavailable in some places. Environmental-claims regulation may also tighten the language the project is permitted to use.

No listing is guaranteed. Applications may be rejected, may carry costs the project cannot meet, or may impose terms the team judges to be against participants' interests. Nothing published by this project promises a listing on any venue.

09Technology risk

Solana network outages, third-party staking infrastructure failures, wallet compromises, or bugs in software the project depends on could affect the availability of funds or rewards.

SAPN itself uses the standard SPL Token program — no transfer tax, no blacklist, no rebase, no upgradeable logic — so token-level exploits are structurally absent rather than merely mitigated. That does not extend to the wider stack the project relies on.

10What we do not claim

We do not issue carbon credits, do not sell regulatory offsets, and do not claim compliance with any carbon-credit standard. Trees funded through Sapling Network are retired to our public ledger and are not resold into voluntary carbon markets.

Carbon figures are estimates with their methodology, assumptions and discount factors disclosed in Section 13. Where a target does not yet meet a benchmark, we say so — see Section 13.3.

11Your responsibility

You are responsible for your own decisions, your own key management, and compliance with the laws and tax rules of your jurisdiction. Verify the mint address 8hrr2aSkj4fCK57zuPn8BbCL2mqehENzbNvrSRSnBTSU before any transaction, and treat any channel not listed in Section 20 as not ours.

If you are unsure, seek advice from someone licensed to give it where you live.