SVRN | Sleeping Natives
SVRN | Sleeping Natives is an active Cardano DRep with ₳273K of voting power from 16 delegators. Voted on 46 of the 62 governance actions of the last six months.
- Status
- Active
- Voting power
- ₳272,649
- Delegators
- 16
- Votes, last six months
- 46 of 62 governance actions
- Explains their votes
- 0 of 122 votes came with a published rationale
- Registered
- 6 Nov 2024
- DRep ID
- drep1yfrpcln42j0f6p6zzt5863xn8pz4kkgfkvswlp88klyy4acjdju2k
Objectives
SVRN is the only NPO-operated, Cardano Mission Driven Stake Pool at time of writing (December, '24), gifting 80% of its rewards to the publicly registered, environmental non-profit organization, Sleeping Natives Productions, which seeks to inspire, inform, and accelerate the adoption of decentralized, alternative energy & financial technologies. We've been involved with Cardano as an SPO since October of 2020 and it's our ongoing mission to educate how critical the adoption of decentralized finance is for certain highly suppressed, truly alternative energy technologies to emerge.
Motivations
Alternative financial technologies are essential for the liberation of truly alternative energy technologies. Only a flourishing, fully decentralized and permissionless financial system can alter the current landscape. Our goals as a Cardano SPO align with our mission to promote these inventions world-wide and our actions as a DRep will always reflect this drive towards decentralized energy and finance.
Qualifications
Relevant experience to support governance as a DRep for the Cardano community comes from our operator's (Philip de Souza's) daily profession as a Data Management & Governance Specialist for the official stock exchange of the EU & Germany, Deutsche Börse Group, where he most recently headed the definition of the exchange's group-wide, Data Domain Model. Governance being a deceptively difficult topic for any large scale organization, his approach to the subject comes with great care and methodical attention to detail. Philip also consistently makes efforts to drive the adoption of permissionless technologies within the legacy financial system so as to help shape the regulatory framework as it develops. As presenter of the EU exchange's monthly 'CTO Knowledge Exchange', he recently hosted Midnight's CFO, Fahmi Syed, to introduce cryptographically secure, selective disclosure to the group.
Links
Latest votes
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada, 23 Sept 2026
- Yes on Should stakePoolTargetNum (k) be raised from 500 to 1000? (SPO poll), 23 Sept 2026
- No on Governance Incentives Framework 2026, 17 Aug 2026
- Yes on Update Constitutional Committee 2026, 17 Aug 2026
- Yes on Name the Protocol Version 12 hard fork “von Bergen“, 17 Aug 2026
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2), 17 Aug 2026
- Yes on IO: Hydra, 8 Jul 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 1,193,000 ada for Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support, 1 Jul 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 1,310,960 ada for Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026, 1 Jul 2026
- No on Withdraw 3,961,538 ada for Bringing Real-World Payments to Cardano with Wirex, 1 Jul 2026