Project and Team
Description of Project
A narrative description of the purpose of the project and its operation in layman's terms is provided.
Spark is the capital allocation layer of the onchain economy, harnessing some of the best risk adjusted returns across defi, cefi, and tradfi to power seamless omnichain savings accounts.
Disclosure of Revenue Streams
A narrative description of the Project's primary sources of revenue is provided, broken out by entity (e.g. Foundation, Labs, DAOs, or other).
Spark earns revenue from 3 primary sources: SparkLend, Spark Savings, and the Spark Liquidity Layer. SparkLend functions as a traditional borrow-lend market, and Spark earns a percentage of interest paid by borrowers (known as a reserve factor) accruing in various tokens such as ETH and USDS. Spark Savings is an omnichain savings product currently powered by the Sky savings rate and sUSDS, and Spark earns a rate spread on each unit of Sky savings it distributes to end users and partners. Spark’s primary revenue driver is the Spark Liquidity Layer, where Spark sources wholesale liquidity from Sky at the Sky base rate and reinvests it in higher yielding opportunities, retaining the net margin.
Equity-Token Relationship
The Project must clearly disclose the rights, value accrual mechanisms, and distinctions between token holders and DevCo equity holders. Any value allocated specifically to equity holders must be communicated separately from value accruing to token holders.
All revenue from Spark protocol activities accrues to the Spark DAO treasury, which is under the ultimate control of SPK token holders. The Spark Foundation is a Cayman non-profit organization intended to help steward and support the Spark protocol and ecosystem. Spark Foundation holds a share of SPK tokens from the token generation event, and receives periodic transfers of USDS from the Spark DAO to cover operating expenses, with both funding sources used exclusively for the benefit of the Spark ecosystem, not for profit-seeking purposes. Phoenix Labs is a private company that acts as a service provider to the Spark Foundation, providing technical and operational support for the Spark protocol and ecosystem. There is no value accrual from the Spark DAO to Spark Foundation or Phoenix Labs other than from publicly disclosed operational expenses and SPK token grants. Please refer to item 2b for details of the token allocations to Spark Foundation and Spark contributors. Spark Foundation has received 2.4 million USDS during the period from Spark DAO launch in June through September to cover operating expenses, with a majority of this transferred to Phoenix Labs as service provider. From October, Spark Foundation is planning to request 1.1 million USDS in funding per month from the DAO, and transfers from the DAO to Spark Foundation occur onchain. Protocol cashflows will not accrue to Phoenix Labs equity.
Disclosure of Advisory Billings to the Foundation
If core team members are compensated by any Tokens allocated to the Foundation through advisory services or similar agreements, or by any other payment method, these payments must be disclosed. Foundation team members known and exclusively compensated by the Foundation are excluded.
There are no advisory token allocations from the Foundation other than the disclosed 12% of SPK allocated for Spark contributors. These contributor tokens are subject to 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff from TGE.
Known Project Team
The identities of key team members (e.g. founders, CEO, CTO, COO of Labs, President of Foundation, etc.) are publicly disclosed.
Identities of key team members are publicly disclosed. They include CEO Sam MacPherson, COO Nadia Alvarez, CTO Kris Kaczor, and Head of Smart Contracts Lucas Manuel. The Phoenix Labs team has no anonymous contributors.
Token Supply and Allocation
Governance & Token Documentation Provided
The Project must provide publicly accessible documentation covering the Token's governance rights, rights to value accrual, any additional utility, and the mechanism by which token governance is implemented.
General details about the SPK token including governance and utility/staking are available in the Spark documentation. The formal governance mechanisms of the Spark DAO are recorded in the Spark Artifact, a subsection of the Sky Atlas (an overarching governance document similar to a constitution). SPK token holders can make changes to the Spark protocol and SPK token characteristics such as value accrual mechanisms via governance, which is primarily mediated by updating the Spark Artifact.
Initial Allocation
Disclosed information explaining the launch and initial supply that includes the total number of tokens issued, recipient category, total supply and cap status, and initial vesting schedule.
Full details on the SPK token allocations and distribution schedule are listed in the Spark documentation. The SPK token has a 10 billion total supply, with 65% allocated to Sky farming, 23% allocated to the Spark ecosystem, and 12% allocated to the team. Sky farming tokens are distributed to users staking either USDS or SKY tokens to earn Spark, with distribution following a declining, halving style schedule over the course of 10 years. Spark ecosystem tokens are 17% unlocked at TGE, with the remaining 6% unlocked after 1 year. The team allocation of 12% is subject to 4 year linear vesting with a 1 year cliff (25% unlocks after 1 year, with remainder unlocking linearly over the following 3 years).
Vesting Insider Tokens
All Insider Token allocations (team, investor, foundation) must be transparent, per the disclosed Initial Allocation. If vesting occurs at a custodian, clearly disclose the employee categories and associated vesting schedules.
Vesting terms for contributors and the Spark Foundation are publicly disclosed in the documentation. Contributor allocations are subject to 4-year linear vesting with a 1-year cliff from TGE. For contributor grants issued after TGE, the standard vesting schedule is 4-year linear vesting with a 1-year cliff from the token grant date. The foundation token allocation is partly unlocked at TGE (17%), with the remainder (6%) unlocking after 1-year.
Labelled Unissued Token Wallets
Addresses that hold any Unissued Tokens must be publicly labelled and held in distinct wallets. This includes the foundation allocation. The party that controls the funds must also be disclosed.
All wallets holding unissued tokens are clearly segregated and documented. Tokens under the Sky farming allocation are held in the Sky DAO treasury. Other tokens for Spark ecosystem and contributor allocations are held in the Spark DAO treasury (controlled by SPK governance, with execution managed by SKY token holders), or the Spark ecosystem multisig (4 of 7 multisig with signers from multiple entities).
Airdrop Process
The project must disclose all airdrop eligibility criteria clearly and provide a full CSV list of recipients, including addresses and amount received.
Details of the Spark initial airdrop including qualification criteria are listed in the Spark documentation. A full list of qualifying addresses is listed in github here. We summarize the distribution criteria below. Prefarming: addresses who supplied USDS on Aave, supplied ETH on SparkLend, or borrowed DAI and/or USDS on SparkLend within the relevant periods before TGE qualify for the prefarming airdrop, with allocations calculated proportional to users share of the relevant pool(s). Qualifying supply and borrow amounts are subject to anti-cheat mechanisms, where addresses supplying and borrowing the same or substantially equivalent asset (eg. supplying sDAI and borrowing USDS) in the same protocol have their qualifying balances reduced proportionally to the looped amount. Ignition: addresses meeting various token holding or usage criteria across ecosystem projects and stablecoins qualify for the ignition airdrop. Qualification metrics include holding USDS, sUSDS, sUSDC, sDAI, xDAI, or SAI tokens above a $1,000 value threshold on a snapshot date (15 April of 2023, 2024, and 2025), holding $10,000 or more DAI on one of the above snapshot dates, depositing at least $100 into SparkLend on or before 15 April 2025, lending at least $5,000 of a major stablecoin on Aave, Morpho, or Fluid across Spark supported networks, holding $5,000 or more in PT, YT, or LP of a top 3 Pendle market, in Ethena USDe and/or sUSDe, in Curve 3pool LP tokens, or vePENDLE, on 15 March 2025 snapshot date. Each method of qualifying counts as one unit, and addresses receive airdrop proportional to their number of units they qualify under. Overdrive: addresses that stake their entire airdrop amount received from the Ignition portion of the initial airdrop by 29 July 2025, and remain staked until at least 11 August 2025, qualify for an additional airdrop sourced from unclaimed ignition airdrop tokens. The airdrop amount is an addresses pro-rata share of unclaimed tokens proportional to their ignition airdrop, limited to 10x the ignition airdrop amount. Social campaigns: users who participated and met required qualifications for Spark’s Layer3 and Cookie3 campaigns may qualify for airdrops, which were distributed by the relevant partner organization according to their criteria. Users who completed all four Spark Quests on Layer3 qualify for a small pool, and the Cookie/SNAPS campaign rewards top participants in the Spark SNAPS campaign on Cookie.fun. Note that addresses were filtered via compliance screening software before inclusion in the final airdrop lists.
Locked Staking Reward to Insiders
Disclose information on insiders (Team, Investors, Foundation, Advisors) tokens that are locked and can earn rewards.
Locked SPK tokens cannot be staked or receive any rewards.
Future Token Issuance
The project commits that any future token issuance outside scheduled vesting will be publicly disclosed and justified on an official platform.
Future token issuance, if any, is at the discretion of the Spark DAO via tokenholder governance. All currently planned and authorized issuance and emissions are listed in the vesting schedule.
Future & Related Token Launches
The team discloses all tokens launched by its key team members in the past and explicitly lays out its philosophy around launching new tokens, related to the project or otherwise.
Phoenix Labs and contributors do not plan to launch any additional governance or protocol tokens. Contributors may launch additional deposit receipt or LP tokens as part of Spark products under the existing SPK governance token.
Transactions & Market Structure
Insider & Related Person Transactions
The project commits to disclosing any material Related Party & Insider Transaction within 30 days and includes the nature of the transaction, the Related Person, the basis on which the person is a Related Person, and the number of tokens involved.
Spark commits to disclosing all related party transactions within 30 days.
Prior Token Sales & Fundraising
Disclosed information of previous fundraising rounds, material OTC rounds to investors, or discounted market maker sales involving the Project and its Token that includes the date of sale, number of tokens sold, and vesting schedule. The Project commits to disclosing any material OTC deal involving token sales and purchases by the foundation within 30 days.
Spark was incubated by the MakerDAO / Sky ecosystem and as such does not have private investors or any prior OTC sales.
Transparent Market Maker Deals & Exchange Listings
Projects must disclose key details of market making and centralized exchange agreements affecting token liquidity, including names of all market makers and centralized exchanges involved, token allocation for each as percent of total supply, and duration of each agreement.
SPK Company Ltd. has entered into agreements with reputable market makers to provide liquidity in both CeFi and DeFi at standard market terms.
Financial Disclosure
Disclosure of Assets and Cash Flow
The Project commits to providing updates to token holders on a quarterly basis via forum posts, live dashboards, or reports that cover core project KPIs, changes to Token supply or allocations, and disclosure of top line revenue and expenses. The Project may engage third-party contractors to prepare and deliver these updates.
Phoenix Labs plans to publish Spark’s first quarterly report after the end of Q3. Spark may engage external professionals to prepare quarterly reports. Spark also provides various live dashboards covering protocol KPIs and financial results, including the Spark Data Hub, [SparkLend dashboard](https://spark.block analitica.com/v1/ethereum), and Spark Dune page.
Public Token Holder Relations Reports
The foundation's assets or working capital are held onchain and publicly labelled, providing the ability to track asset holdings, revenue, and expenses. Or, the foundation publishes a quarterly, publicly available financial report of its assets, working capital, revenue and expenses.
Substantially all of the Spark DAO and Spark Foundation’s assets are held onchain, in the form of SPK tokens per the disclosed token allocation as well as stablecoins granted by the Spark DAO and Sky ecosystem. Spark DAO transfers governance approved operational expenses to the Spark Foundation on a monthly basis. The Spark Foundation makes periodic transfers to service providers such as Phoenix Labs to cover ongoing operational expenses. The Spark DAO treasury is held in the following address controlled by governance: 0x3300f198988e4C9C63F75dF86De36421f06af8c4. The Spark Foundation holds operations funds pending disbursement in this wallet: 0x92e4629a4510AF5819d7D1601464C233599fF5ec. The Spark TGE Operations wallet which handled TGE related transfers as well as Spark airdrop claims is located at this address: 0x6FE588FDCC6A34207485cc6e47673F59cCEDF92B.
This Token Transparency Filing is provided for general informational purposes only. Blockworks reviews completeness only and does not verify or warrant the accuracy of individual answers. Spark is solely responsible for the content, accuracy, and legality of its disclosures.