Sophon Gives Users Until Nov. 25 to Exit Its Mainnet Before Nov. 30 Shutdown

Five Days Between Withdrawal and Shutdown

Sophon has given users until Nov. 25, 2026 to pull their funds off the Sophon mainnet, five days before the network stops operating on Nov. 30. In a Monday announcement on X, the project’s final shutdown timetable states that infrastructure and related websites will begin closing after the Nov. 25 deadline, and balances left on the chain at that point risk becoming permanently inaccessible. The notice appeared as the final post in a four-part thread and covers liquid token balances, unpaid staking and Guardian rewards, and assets still held in Sophon Farm. Assets at risk therefore include everything left on the chain, from tokens to unclaimed rewards, and the team gave no figure for how much value that represents. The thread confirmed the complete closing schedule rather than leaving the June decision to stand on its own.

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The project’s final shutdown timetable.

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The instructions direct users to the project’s official claims portal to withdraw liquid assets and collect outstanding staking and Guardian rewards, and to the farming platform for Sophon Farm positions; those are the only two official routes the announcement named. “Nov 25 is the date to act, not Nov 30,” the team wrote. The five-day buffer carries real weight, because Sophon did not promise that withdrawals would stay possible until the chain itself stops, and it warned that key websites and network infrastructure would start going dark after Nov. 25, potentially removing the services a holder needs to move funds. The team also cautioned against fraudulent migration websites that imitate withdrawal portals to trick users into connecting wallets or approving malicious transactions, and told users to rely exclusively on official Sophon links, the kind of caution blockchain security audits routinely emphasize. No extension beyond Nov. 25 has been specified for anyone who misses the window.

From Standalone Chain to Base Apps

The wind-down completes a retreat the project announced in June, when it concluded that running a standalone network cost more than it delivered. In a June 25 statement, founder and CEO Seb framed the decision bluntly: “We paused nine months ago and asked the basic question: was our own chain doing anything that justified spending millions a year on infrastructure? It wasn’t.” The team redirected its work toward consumer finance and artificial intelligence applications built on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, a shift that places the project in the territory covered by blockchain and AI synergy. Sophon raised $60 million through a node sale in 2024 after a separate $10 million round, and its zero-knowledge-powered network originally served gaming and entertainment applications. Under its token transition plan, SOPH’s uses for transaction fees and staking are being phased out in favor of buybacks and burns funded by consumer product revenue, with the finance app Pyre named as a potential source, a model examined in how networks actually make money. Crypto exchange Binance had already moved ahead of the announcement, saying on July 28 that it would discontinue SOPH deposits and withdrawals on the Sophon network from Aug. 4 and migrate the token to Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard at a 1:1 ratio, a token migration rather than a network fork. Its notice kept spot, margin and futures trading and Earn services unaffected, so the chain’s closure does not by itself end the token. In August, Binance placed SOPH under a Monitoring Tag carrying additional reviews and possible delisting risk, and Upbit later put the token under investment caution. The closure also follows Abstract, the consumer-focused Ethereum layer-2 backed by Igloo, Pudgy Penguins’ parent company, which said on Oct. 6 that it would shut down on Dec. 15 after losses in the tens of millions.

Why Nov. 25 Is the Real Cutoff

The operative date in this sequence is Nov. 25, not Nov. 30. The project’s own wording has infrastructure and websites closing before the chain stops, which shortens the practical exit window to the earlier figure and turns the five-day gap into the stretch where holders lose their options. SOPH technical analysis readers are working from a tape that already reflects the news, with SOPH trading 17.8% lower over the past 24 hours. What happens after the shutdown depends on the ERC-20 migration exchanges completed in August and on a buyback program that remains a plan, since Sophon has disclosed no revenue figures from Pyre. On the question holders actually ask, whether withdrawals stay open past Nov. 25, the company’s statement makes no promise, only the instruction to act on the earlier date.