Sophon Announces Mainnet Shutdown Schedule, Plans to Shut Down Mainnet on November 30, 2026
Sophon has announced the mainnet shutdown schedule, planning to finally close the mainnet on November 30, 2026, with the deadline for user asset withdrawals set for November 25.
Key infrastructure and related websites will begin shutting down after November 25, including cross-chain bridge relays, RPC nodes, and the official frontend. Assets remaining on the chain after this date may become permanently inaccessible.
Users should promptly withdraw SOPH, ETH, USDC, and other liquid assets via claim.sophon.com, and claim any unclaimed staking or Guardian rewards; users with unwithdrawn Sophon Farm assets must complete withdrawals through farm.sophon.xyz.
Sophon emphasizes that assets remaining on the chain after the deadline may become permanently inaccessible, and users should not wait until November 30 to take action, using only official links and being wary of counterfeit migration sites.
The project had previously stopped new deposits since June 25 and removed itself from the LayerZero network, shifting focus to building consumer applications on Base, with the mainnet gradually exiting operations.
Holders are accelerating the withdrawal of liquid assets and rewards, with funds flowing from the Sophon chain to Ethereum or other chains; addresses that do not act in time face the risk of asset locking, benefiting migrated users while putting pressure on node operators and holders with unwithdrawn assets.
Source: Public Information
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Sophon announced the gradual shutdown of its own chain on June 25, stopping new deposits and shifting focus from general chain operations to developing consumer applications on Base (such as Pyre). The formal confirmation of the mainnet closure on November 30 and the withdrawal deadline on November 25 marks the final implementation of the previously phased exit plan.
The project is reallocating resources from maintaining mainnet nodes and cross-chain infrastructure to product-side revenue and a SOPH token buyback and burn mechanism, motivated by the desire to avoid further investment in a low-activity chain, while guiding users to withdraw assets through the official portal to reduce on-chain residual risks.
Similar cases can be seen in other modular or application-specific chains that choose to shut down and migrate to more mature L2s (like Base or Optimism) after experiencing insufficient liquidity; currently, Sophon is in a contraction phase transitioning from a self-built chain to the application layer, with the mainnet exit becoming a clear milestone.
This represents a restructuring of the industry chain: the project is shifting control points from verification and liquidity maintenance on its own chain to application development and token value capture on Base, balancing infrastructure costs with user migration costs, thus reallocating resources from general chain operations to vertical consumer scenarios, changing the asset storage and value realization paths for holders.
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Chains can be shut down, and the asset withdrawal window determines final ownership.
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