483 questions, answered plainly — including the ones with uncomfortable answers. If something here is unclear or missing, check our work or write to us.
The Tide is a global kindness movement built around a simple idea: individual acts of kindness can become something much bigger when we act together. $STARFISH and blockchain technology are tools that help make our collective impact more transparent, measurable, accountable, and open to people around the world.
The Tide is a global kindness movement first. $STARFISH and blockchain technology are simply tools that help power certain parts of the ecosystem and make our collective impact more transparent and measurable.
Our mission is to inspire people around the world to perform, recognize, and share acts of kindness while turning individual participation into measurable collective impact.
One small act can inspire another. One person creates a ripple, ripples become waves, and together those waves create The Tide.
A tide is made up of countless movements of water acting together. The name represents our belief that individual acts of kindness can combine to create something much larger than any one person could accomplish alone.
The starfish represents the timeless idea that helping even one individual matters. The Tide expands that idea by asking what could happen if millions of people each chose to pick up their own starfish.
Our starfish represents kindness, participation, hope, and the belief that every person has the ability to make a difference.
The Tide is a global kindness movement and ecosystem operated by The Tide Global LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. The Tide Global LLC is not itself a charity. Wave Partners are independent verified organizations, and their charitable or nonprofit status is separate from The Tide Global LLC.
No. Money is only one way to create impact. Performing an act of kindness, helping another person, nominating a worthy cause, sharing an act that inspires others, voting, volunteering, and spreading kindness can all be part of The Tide.
Absolutely not. Many of the most meaningful acts of kindness cost nothing.
No. The Tide is built around the opposite idea: seemingly small acts can matter.
Because individual acts are powerful, but seeing millions of people acting together can inspire even more participation and demonstrate the collective impact ordinary people can create.
No. We intentionally designed The Tide with crypto newcomers in mind.
No.
No.
No.
You can upload acts of kindness, nominate future Wave Partners, directly support Wave Partners, share The Tide with others, and participate in the broader movement.
Voting for the Monthly Wave Partner requires an eligible wallet holding at least 1 $STARFISH.
Yes.
Yes. Several major parts of The Tide require no wallet at all.
Yes. We would love for nearly anyone, anywhere in the world to be able to participate. Availability of certain crypto-related features will always depend on local laws, regulations, sanctions, wallets, exchanges, and third-party service providers.
No. The Tide is intended to bring people together around kindness and positive impact rather than partisan politics.
No. The Tide is intended to welcome people from many cultures, backgrounds, beliefs, and walks of life.
It means looking at what happens when millions of individual acts, votes, donations, and other contributions are viewed together instead of as isolated actions.
To demonstrate what can happen when ordinary people around the world choose to make a difference together.
$STARFISH is the digital token that connects people to The Tide community and helps power participation in the movement.
$STARFISH is short for Starfish, reflecting the starfish at the heart of The Tide story.
$STARFISH is built on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network.
$STARFISH provides a digital layer that can connect community participation, voting, public blockchain records, and The Tide's Return to the Sea mechanism within one ecosystem.
No. This is an important distinction. Many of the most meaningful ways to participate in The Tide require no cryptocurrency whatsoever.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No guaranteed interest or return is associated with simply holding $STARFISH.
No.
No.
Yes. $STARFISH can increase or decrease in market value.
Yes. Anyone acquiring $STARFISH should understand and accept that possibility.
No.
No. The Tide does not promise or predict future $STARFISH prices.
$STARFISH is intended as a participation and utility token within The Tide ecosystem and is not offered or promoted as an investment product.
Because $STARFISH is being built around participation, purpose, community, transparency, and positive impact rather than promises of financial returns.
If your only interest is short-term speculation and not the mission or purpose behind The Tide, $STARFISH may not be the right fit for you.
No. The purpose of The Tide is to build something positive and meaningful rather than attract people solely through speculative hype.
Once a token is traded on permissionless markets, The Tide cannot control every person's reason for acquiring or selling it. What we can control is how we build, communicate, and operate The Tide.
Current utility includes participation in The Tide's monthly Wave Partner voting process, use within the Return-to-the-Sea Proof of Impact system, and economic participation through the 1.0% IMPACT Fee applied to every $STARFISH buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC market.
No.
No.
No.
Yes. An eligible wallet must hold at least 1 $STARFISH.
No. Every $STARFISH buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market is intended to include a 1.0% IMPACT Fee that supports the current Wave Partner, but acquiring $STARFISH itself is not a charitable donation.
No. Simply holding $STARFISH does not create a charitable donation or generate an IMPACT Fee. The IMPACT Fee applies when $STARFISH is bought or sold through the official $STARFISH/USDC market.
Liquidity / Public Launch: 50% (500,000,000 $STARFISH)
Founder & Team: 15% (150,000,000 $STARFISH)
Tide Operations & Growth: 15% (150,000,000 $STARFISH)
Community Wallet: 10% (100,000,000 $STARFISH)
Kindness Wallet: 10% (100,000,000 $STARFISH)
No. The current $STARFISH structure does not impose a hard maximum-wallet percentage or anti-whale ownership cap.
No. Wave Partner voting is not token weighted. An eligible wallet receives one vote whether it holds 1 $STARFISH or a much larger amount.
15% of the total supply, or 150,000,000 $STARFISH.
No. The 150,000,000 $STARFISH Founder & Team allocation will be placed into an on-chain vesting contract at launch, with a 12-month cliff. No scheduled Founder & Team tokens vest during the first 12 months.
Following the 12-month cliff, the Founder & Team allocation vests evenly over the next 36 months.
Approximately four years from launch: a 12-month cliff followed by 36 months of even vesting.
The purpose is long-term alignment rather than immediate access to the Founder & Team allocation.
Yes. The Founder & Team vesting schedule is intended to be enforced on-chain, and The Tide will publish the relevant contract and wallet information so the community can independently inspect it.
No. They are separate 15% allocations with different purposes in the published tokenomics.
It is The Tide's name for permanently removing designated $STARFISH from active circulation.
Because it connects the technical action to the starfish story at the heart of The Tide.
The designated $STARFISH is permanently burned through the ERC-20 burn mechanism. Burning removes the tokens from circulation and reduces the contract-reported total supply.
No. Returned means Returned to the Sea Forever. A completed on-chain burn permanently removes those $STARFISH and reduces total supply.
Yes. Return-to-the-Sea burn activity is publicly visible on Base and can be inspected through explorer resources linked from The Tide website.
No. The burn mechanism permanently destroys the designated tokens rather than transferring them into a Tide-controlled wallet.
Up to 200,000,000 $STARFISH.
20% of the original 1 billion $STARFISH.
Up to 100 million $STARFISH can be Returned through verified acts of kindness, and up to another 100 million can be Returned through qualifying contributions benefiting Wave Partners, including verified IMPACT Fee proceeds and community donations.
No. It is a goal and maximum under the current program, not a guaranteed result.
Under the current program, the Return-to-the-Sea goal would have been achieved.
It creates a measurable connection between community activity and permanent activity inside The Tide's digital ecosystem.
Each verified act of kindness causes 1 $STARFISH to be Returned to the Sea Forever, up to the 100 million $STARFISH allocation for verified acts.
No.
No.
No. The token action goes in the opposite direction: $STARFISH is Returned to the Sea.
The Tide wants to encourage genuine kindness rather than give people a financial reason to manufacture or exaggerate acts simply to earn tokens.
One million $STARFISH would be Returned to the Sea under the acts-of-kindness program, assuming the program limit had not already been reached.
People can continue performing and sharing acts of kindness, but the current 100 million $STARFISH Return allocation for that category would have been completed.
No. Current beta submissions and test totals will be reset to zero before public launch. Official public act counting and the associated Return-to-the-Sea activity begin from zero when The Tide goes live.
No.
Every $STARFISH buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market is intended to include a 1.0% IMPACT Fee, charged as that pool's own trading fee. It creates a direct connection between official-market trading activity and support for the current Wave Partner.
The intended launch architecture uses a plain Uniswap v4 pool on Base for the official $STARFISH/USDC market, where the 1.0% is the pool's own trading fee rather than logic inside the token, and The Tide's liquidity position is locked permanently with UNCX. The fee applies to swaps through that official market. $STARFISH itself is intended to remain a standard ERC-20 rather than a general fee-on-transfer token.
100% of IMPACT Fees, less unavoidable direct third-party costs required to collect, convert, process, transmit, or deliver those funds, are committed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide Global LLC retains 0% of IMPACT Fees as revenue, profit, founder compensation, team compensation, or operating income.
Almost. The Tide's liquidity is locked permanently with UNCX, the locking service, which keeps 2% of the trading fees each time they are collected. That is an unavoidable third-party cost, along with Base network gas and the cost of converting and sending the money.
On a $1,000 trade through the official $STARFISH/USDC market, Uniswap first takes its own 0.1% ($1.00), which the trader pays on top of the IMPACT Fee. The pool's 1.0% on the remaining $999 is $9.99: UNCX keeps $0.20 when the fees are collected, and $9.79 goes to the Wave Partner.
The Tide Global LLC, the Founder, and the team keep 0% of it.
Fees collected from buys arrive as USDC. Fees collected from sells arrive as $STARFISH, which has to be sold before it can be sent to a charity.
Once a month, that $STARFISH is sold for USDC in one batch and paid out with the rest. Each sale pays the pool's own fee and moves the price a little, so one monthly conversion costs the Wave Partner less than selling after every collection.
Uniswap pools are open to anyone. Other people can add their own liquidity to the official $STARFISH/USDC pool, and if they do they earn a share of the same 1.0% in proportion to what they added.
The Tide commits 100% of the fees its own locked position earns, less unavoidable direct third-party costs. At launch that position is the whole pool, so all of the fee goes to the Wave Partner. If outside liquidity joins later, that share belongs to whoever provided it, and The Tide's commitment continues to cover every cent its own position earns.
No. The Tide Global LLC, the Founder, and the team retain 0% of the IMPACT Fee as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income. Only unavoidable direct third-party delivery costs may reduce the amount ultimately received by the Wave Partner.
No. A $STARFISH trade is not a charitable donation. The IMPACT Fee is an ecosystem-generated fee that The Tide directs to the current Wave Partner.
The 1.0% IMPACT Fee is the official pool's own trading fee, so that one is the IMPACT Fee rather than a cost on top of it. Everything around it is separate: Uniswap's own 0.1% on each trade, Base network gas, swap or conversion costs, payment-processing charges, bank or wire fees, and other third-party costs. The Tide does not keep those costs.
For every verified $1 USD of qualifying value delivered or designated to a Wave Partner through IMPACT Fee proceeds, and for every verified $1 of gross community contributions benefiting Wave Partners, 1 $STARFISH is Returned to the Sea Forever, up to the 100 million $STARFISH contribution-category limit.
Yes, provided the applicable Return-to-the-Sea limit has not been reached.
Absolutely not.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Because this is an impact-accounting formula, not a market-price formula.
No.
Yes.
No.
For the IMPACT Fee, The Tide Global LLC retains 0% as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income. 100% of IMPACT Fees, less unavoidable direct third-party costs of collection, conversion, processing, transmission, or delivery, are committed to the current Wave Partner. Community donations go directly to Wave Partners through their donation systems; The Tide takes 0% of those donations, although independent payment processors may charge their own fees.
Liquidity is what allows a token to be exchanged in a market without every transaction requiring a specific buyer and seller to find one another directly.
A liquidity pool contains assets that allow a decentralized exchange to facilitate swaps between them.
The Tide Global LLC intends to fund the official launch pool. The full 500,000,000 $STARFISH Liquidity / Public Launch allocation is intended to enter the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap pool at launch together with the project-provided USDC side of the pool.
No. The official launch structure is intended to use permanently locked, full-range liquidity so the designated launch position cannot be withdrawn by The Tide Global LLC.
It provides stronger assurance that the designated official launch liquidity cannot simply be removed later by the project. Full-range positioning is also intended to keep that permanently locked position active across the full price range rather than requiring discretionary repositioning.
No. Permanent locking of the designated initial liquidity does not guarantee price, trading volume, market depth, or future market conditions.
No. Wave Partner support generated by trading through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market comes through the separate 1.0% IMPACT Fee.
The Tide intends to publish the official Uniswap pool, liquidity-lock information, relevant Base explorer links, and associated contract information so the launch-liquidity structure can be independently inspected after launch.
Every $STARFISH buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market is intended to include the 1.0% IMPACT Fee. The fee is the pool's own trading fee. It is collected from the pool, converted or processed as needed, and then delivered to the current Wave Partner after unavoidable direct third-party costs.
No. The Tide Global LLC retains 0% of IMPACT Fees as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income. 100% less unavoidable direct third-party costs is committed to the current Wave Partner.
The Tide intends to make relevant wallets, blockchain activity, and distribution information publicly inspectable wherever practical.
Yes. Transparency is a foundational goal of the system.
The exact operational frequency may depend on Base gas, conversion costs, banking or payment rails, the selected Wave Partner's receiving method, and other practical considerations. The Tide Global LLC does not retain IMPACT Fees as revenue or profit.
The intended process is to convert or otherwise deliver IMPACT Fee proceeds in USDC or a USD-equivalent form that the Wave Partner can practically receive, with the final method documented.
Yes. The objective is a transparent chain from IMPACT Fee generation through delivery to the Wave Partner.
Yes. Each verified $1 of qualifying value ultimately delivered or designated to a Wave Partner from IMPACT Fee proceeds counts toward the contribution-based Return-to-the-Sea category, subject to the applicable 100 million $STARFISH program limit.
Yes. The exact implementation, relevant addresses, and on-chain components will be published through official Tide channels as they become operational.
It is a voluntary contribution made by a community member in support of a current or previous Wave Partner.
No.
No.
No. The Tide is intentionally designed so that community donations do not pass through a Tide-controlled bank account.
No. The Tide does not take a penny of its members' community donations.
Yes. Independent payment providers may charge processing or service fees.
No.
The Tide works with each Wave Partner to use the best practical verification method available, such as transaction-level reporting, secure server-to-server confirmations, payment-processor records, webhooks, campaign attribution, or equivalent verified records.
Because worthy organizations vary greatly in size, location, technology, and available payment systems. The Tide does not want to exclude a deserving Wave Partner simply because it does not use one specific provider.
The Tide intends to handle the required Tide-side technology and integration at The Tide's expense rather than making a Wave Partner pay to participate.
The goal is to avoid unnecessary burden on the organizations we are trying to support.
The Tide can work with the available system to create the most accurate and transparent attribution method practical.
The Tide intends to count verified donation activity rather than relying simply on a donor saying they donated.
No. Where technically possible, The Tide will rely on confirmed transaction records rather than a webpage visit.
Verified accounting should reflect reversals and corrections rather than artificially leaving invalid donations in the impact total.
Where the available payment system provides both figures, The Tide can transparently distinguish the gross donation from the net amount reaching the Wave Partner.
The gross verified contribution amount should determine the Return-to-the-Sea count. For example, a verified $100 community donation counts as 100 $STARFISH Returned to the Sea even if an independent payment processor later deducts a processing fee before the Wave Partner receives the net proceeds.
Yes.
Yes.
It is The Tide's way of allowing people to continue supporting a current or previous Wave Partner.
No.
A Wave Partner is a legitimate, verified, qualified organization selected by The Tide community to receive featured support.
Each organization represents a wave of positive impact within the larger Tide.
It begins with a community nomination, goes through verification and eligibility, may become one of five monthly finalists, and ultimately must be selected by the community through voting.
Under the normal process, no. The community chooses from the finalists.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
The Tide is designed to consider legitimate organizations working across a broad range of causes, including humanitarian, health, education, poverty, children, animals, environment, community support, disaster relief, and many other forms of positive impact.
No.
Yes.
No.
No. Community Interest is one factor in a broader automated selection process.
No.
No.
No.
Yes. An organization must be legitimate, verified, and qualified before entering the eligible pool.
It remains in the eligible nomination pool until it is selected as a Wave Partner or otherwise becomes ineligible.
No.
No. Eligible nominations remain available for future cycles.
No. Once selected as a Wave Partner, the organization is no longer eligible to be selected again under the current Wave Partner rules.
The goal is to continually expand the number of worthy causes benefiting from The Tide.
Yes.
Not necessarily. Receiving support from The Tide community should not automatically be interpreted as an organization's endorsement of cryptocurrency or $STARFISH.
Five.
Four of the five finalists are determined automatically using The Tide's predefined technology and selection criteria. The calculation is intended to occur off-chain, with relevant records or proofs published or anchored to Base for transparency and auditability. The fifth position is the Wild Wave.
No.
No. The ordinary process is designed to apply predefined automated criteria without discretionary human selection of the four criteria-based finalists.
The Tide's automated selection technology evaluates predefined factors that include Community Interest, Global Representation, Cause Quality, legitimacy, eligibility, and related objective inputs.
It reflects genuine interest shown by The Tide community while using safeguards intended to reduce artificial nominations and manipulation.
It helps The Tide remain a genuinely global movement instead of consistently favoring one geographic area.
It considers available information relevant to legitimacy, reputation, stewardship, real-world impact, and organizational quality.
No. The technology applies predefined criteria and metrics rather than giving an AI system unlimited subjective discretion.
No. Relevant methodology, selection records, and verification data are intended to be published transparently, with appropriate records or proofs anchored or referenced on Base where practical.
Yes. The Tide website is intended to provide access to relevant Base explorer records and published selection documentation.
The ordinary finalist process is designed so no human interaction is used to influence or manipulate the resulting four automated finalists.
It reduces favoritism, bias, manipulation, and dependence on any one person's preferences.
The methodology may be improved over time, but material changes should be publicly disclosed and auditable rather than quietly changed behind the scenes.
The Wild Wave is the fifth monthly finalist.
It is selected randomly from the legitimate, verified, qualified organizations in the applicable eligibility pool.
Yes. As long as an organization is legitimate, verified, qualified, and eligible, it has the same opportunity as the other organizations in that Wild Wave pool.
It ensures that a worthy organization does not need to be enormous, famous, wealthy, or heavily promoted to have an opportunity to appear on the ballot.
Yes.
No.
No. The Wild Wave process is intended to be random, documented, and auditable.
No. It simply becomes one of the five finalists. The community still decides the winner.
The Tide community.
A wallet meeting the published $STARFISH eligibility requirement.
At least 1 $STARFISH.
One.
No.
No.
It keeps voting easy to understand and prevents large $STARFISH balances from automatically creating proportionally greater voting power. The formal rule is One Vote Per Eligible Wallet.
Voting is one of $STARFISH's defined participation utilities and creates a simple connection between the token and community governance of the monthly Wave Partner.
The voting system should include an eligibility check that prevents the same token balance from being repeatedly reused to create multiple valid votes. An eligible wallet should still satisfy the minimum $STARFISH requirement at the final voting eligibility check.
Yes. Automated anti-bot and anti-Sybil controls can operate behind the scenes to identify suspicious patterns without making legitimate voting unnecessarily complicated.
The goal is no. The normal experience should be as simple as connecting a compatible wallet, verifying eligibility, choosing a finalist, and confirming the vote.
The goal is to keep ordinary voting simple and welcoming while using technology to reduce abuse wherever practical.
No.
No. Once a vote has been submitted, it is final.
It keeps the process simple, auditable, and resistant to strategic switching based on later information.
No.
No.
No.
No.
It reduces bandwagon effects and encourages people to choose the cause they genuinely want to support rather than simply following whoever appears to be winning.
No. The restriction applies during the active voting period. Final results and relevant verification records can still be made publicly auditable after voting closes.
The Tide is not charging $STARFISH as the price of casting a vote. Blockchain interactions may still involve ordinary network costs depending on the final technical implementation.
Normal voting eligibility should not require giving ownership of your $STARFISH to The Tide.
They both win.
No.
No.
The IMPACT Fees received by The Tide for that month are divided equally: 50% to one co-Wave Partner and 50% to the other.
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Both become part of Our Waves of Impact Partners and remain available for continued community support.
All tied winners share the month. IMPACT Fee proceeds for that month are divided equally among the tied Wave Partners: two-way ties split 50/50, three-way ties one-third each, four-way ties 25% each, and so on.
It is the repeating schedule through which nominations, finalist selection, voting, and monthly Wave Partner support operate.
Yes.
At 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time on the 24th.
It enters the eligibility pool for the following monthly finalist cycle.
At 12:00 AM Pacific Time on the 25th.
At 12:00 AM Pacific Time on the 25th.
At 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time on the final day of the month.
At 12:00 AM Pacific Time on the first day of the new month.
One published official time zone provides a consistent global cutoff.
Yes. Nominations never close, but submissions after the monthly cutoff apply to a future cycle.
For its designated calendar month.
IMPACT Fees received by The Tide from $STARFISH trading activity during that Wave Partner's designated calendar month are committed to that Wave Partner.
Yes, but it is intentionally narrow.
No automated system can responsibly ignore confirmed fraud, legal restrictions, sanctions issues, or a major technical failure that threatens the integrity of the process.
No. The emergency mechanism is intended to be controlled through a multi-party multisignature structure so that no one individual has unilateral power.
The intended structure is a multi-party multisignature approval mechanism requiring more than one authorized signer. The final signer count and threshold will be published when the structure is operational.
Only exceptional situations such as confirmed fraud, a legal or sanctions prohibition, or a material technical or integrity failure.
No.
No.
No.
No. Its purpose is to protect the integrity and legality of the process, not determine the community's preference.
The action, reason, authorization, and relevant blockchain record should be publicly disclosed.
No. The transparency requirement is fundamental to the mechanism.
The invalid organization can be removed under the published eligibility rules and the vacancy filled using the applicable automated process.
The emergency mechanism can protect the integrity of the election, but any action must follow predefined rules, require multisig authorization, and be publicly documented.
The goal is not to ask the community for blind trust. The mechanism is intentionally limited, multi-party controlled, publicly visible, and prohibited from being used merely to influence the outcome.
It becomes part of Our Waves of Impact Partners.
It is the collection of organizations previously selected by The Tide community that remain active parts of the movement.
Yes.
Because creating impact should not stop when the calendar changes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. Each one remains part of The Tide's ongoing story and collective impact.
It is an authentic act of kindness performed or witnessed by a community member and shared through The Tide.
No. You may share an act you performed or one you recently witnessed, subject to the submission rules.
The Tide intentionally uses the word “recently” rather than imposing an unnecessarily rigid timeframe.
Yes. The current submission process includes an image.
The planned flow includes a title, image, brief description, country, authenticity confirmation, and permission to display the material.
Up to three acts per member within a 24-hour period.
To reduce spam, automation, duplicate submissions, and attempts to manipulate impact totals.
No.
The system can use duplicate-image detection and other anti-abuse technology.
Automated systems can examine authenticity signals, duplication, submission patterns, content, and other available information.
Yes. AI and automated technology can assist with verification, moderation, abuse prevention, and other parts of the ecosystem.
No. Technology is a tool, and ambiguous situations can require additional review.
It allows the community to see how kindness is spreading around the world.
No.
No. The public Act of Kindness submission flow uses country-level location rather than city or a precise personal location.
The website may use approximate IP-based country detection for convenience and allow the user to confirm or correct it.
You should only submit material you have the right and appropriate permission to share.
No. Users should avoid unnecessary private, confidential, or sensitive information.
The current model does not pay users for uploading acts.
Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network designed to provide lower-cost, faster on-chain activity while remaining connected to the broader Ethereum ecosystem.
Base offers broad EVM compatibility, a large wallet and developer ecosystem, relatively low network costs, and access to established decentralized infrastructure such as Uniswap. Those characteristics fit The Tide's goal of making $STARFISH accessible to crypto newcomers while maintaining public on-chain transparency.
A blockchain is a shared digital ledger that records transactions in a way that can be independently inspected and verified.
Because trust matters more than ever.
It gives The Tide a public, verifiable record that can help show how $STARFISH moves, what is Returned to the Sea, how relevant project wallets and vesting operate, how official-market IMPACT Fee activity is recorded, and how measurable parts of the ecosystem develop over time.
Yes, but then the public would largely have to trust The Tide's own database and reporting. Blockchain allows important records to be independently verified.
No. It reduces the amount of blind trust required for certain claims.
No. A blockchain can verify what occurred on-chain. Real-world verification still requires reliable processes.
No. Some information is more appropriately kept off-chain, especially photographs, personal data, and other information that should not be permanently public.
Yes. Verification records or cryptographic proofs can be anchored or referenced on-chain without necessarily putting private content itself on-chain.
No. Finalized public blockchain activity cannot simply be rewritten inside a private Tide database.
Yes. The official website will provide links to relevant Base explorer records.
No.
ETH is the native asset used to pay network transaction costs on Base.
$STARFISH is The Tide's ERC-20 token operating on Base.
Certain on-chain actions may require a small amount of ETH to pay Base network gas, depending on the wallet, transaction, and final user experience.
No.
No.
No.
Yes. No blockchain or technology platform should be treated as incapable of congestion, outages, software problems, or other technical risks.
A wallet is software or hardware that lets you control blockchain assets and authorize transactions.
No. $STARFISH exists on the blockchain. Your wallet provides the credentials that allow you to control the assets associated with your blockchain address.
It is the public blockchain address associated with a wallet.
No.
Generally, yes.
Not necessarily. Blockchain addresses are public, but an address does not inherently display a person's legal identity.
It is extremely sensitive cryptographic information that can provide control over blockchain assets.
A seed phrase is sensitive recovery information that may provide complete control over a wallet.
No.
No legitimate Tide representative should ever need your seed phrase.
No.
Any compatible wallet that supports Base and ERC-20 tokens.
The Tide intends to make the beginner path as simple as possible and expects to provide step-by-step instructions using the Uniswap app/wallet experience. Base App, Phantom, MetaMask, and other compatible Base wallets may also be used. Availability and features can vary by jurisdiction and provider.
No.
No.
The Tide generally cannot recover a self-custody wallet for you.
They may be able to take control of assets in the wallet. Protecting private keys and recovery information is extremely important.
The official Token page will link to the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market on Base and provide current instructions once trading is live.
Verify the official $STARFISH contract address and official Uniswap pool through The Tide's official website before connecting a wallet or making a swap.
Anyone can potentially create a token using a similar name, symbol, or logo. The contract address uniquely identifies the official $STARFISH token on Base.
Yes. The official $STARFISH contract address and official Uniswap pool will be published through The Tide's verified channels.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
That depends on the wallets, exchanges, on-ramp providers, payment methods, jurisdiction, and services available to you.
Some third-party providers may offer card or fiat on-ramp services, but The Tide cannot guarantee availability in every location.
No.
No.
Once it is available on open cryptocurrency markets, $STARFISH may be exchanged through supported markets and liquidity pools.
Yes. Every buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market is intended to include a 1.0% IMPACT Fee, charged as that pool's own trading fee.
100% of IMPACT Fees, less unavoidable direct third-party costs required to collect, convert, process, transmit, or deliver the proceeds, are committed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide Global LLC, the Founder, and the team retain 0% as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income.
No. Buying or selling $STARFISH should not be treated as a charitable donation, even though the IMPACT Fee generated by the trade supports the current Wave Partner.
No.
No. People should make their own decisions rather than being pressured by The Tide.
Market activity, buyers, sellers, available liquidity, and broader market conditions.
Liquidity describes how easily an asset can be exchanged without causing unusually large price movement.
It is the effect a particular trade can have on market price, especially if the trade is large relative to available liquidity.
Slippage is the difference between the expected trade price and the price at which the transaction actually executes.
Yes.
It is a valuation calculation based on token price and an applicable supply figure.
No. Market capitalization is not the same thing as cash reserves or liquidity.
No.
Yes.
Trades through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market are intended to include a 1.0% IMPACT Fee. Transfers or trades through unrelated third-party markets do not pay the official pool's fee.
No. The Tide Global LLC, the Founder, and the team retain 0% of IMPACT Fees as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income. Only unavoidable direct third-party delivery costs may reduce the proceeds ultimately received by the Wave Partner.
No. Under the published commitment, IMPACT Fees are not a source of Tide operating income. The Tide Global LLC funds operations separately.
Tide Operations & Growth is a separate 15% token allocation in the published tokenomics. The Tide Global LLC does not fund operations by retaining IMPACT Fees.
The Founder & Team allocation is 15% of total supply, or 150,000,000 $STARFISH. Its market value is not guaranteed, and the allocation is intended to be locked in an on-chain vesting contract with the published schedule.
A 12-month cliff beginning at launch, followed by even vesting over the next 36 months through the published on-chain vesting structure.
No. No scheduled Founder & Team tokens vest during the first 12 months.
Yes. The Tide intends to publish the on-chain vesting contract, relevant project wallets, and vesting information so the community can independently inspect important parts of the structure.
The Tide intends to obtain independent pre-launch audit review of the critical $STARFISH smart-contract components, including the token contract, the Founder & Team vesting arrangement, and other material on-chain components, and to publish the resulting reports or links through official Tide channels. The IMPACT Fee is the official Uniswap pool's own trading fee rather than a separate fee contract, so there is no fee hook to audit.
The Tide intends to publish verified contract source code and official Base explorer links for material deployed contracts.
Where practical, material Tide-controlled wallets and administrative mechanisms are intended to use Safe or comparable multi-party multisignature controls rather than relying on a single private key.
It means making important information visible and independently verifiable rather than simply asking people to trust what The Tide says.
Examples include $STARFISH fixed-supply contract properties, Return-to-the-Sea burns and declining totalSupply, Founder & Team vesting, relevant project wallets, official Uniswap pool and liquidity-lock information, IMPACT Fee records, voting records where applicable, finalist-selection proofs or published records, and other on-chain activity used by The Tide.
The official Tide website will provide Base explorer links and other verification resources for relevant blockchain information.
Blockchain explorers allow users to inspect current public blockchain activity as it is recorded and finalized by the network.
No.
The Tide cannot simply rewrite finalized public blockchain history the way an administrator might edit a private database.
Because transparency is strongest when people can verify important claims independently.
No. It means mistakes should be acknowledged, corrected appropriately, and documented rather than hidden.
Corrections should be made transparently while preserving any blockchain records that cannot or should not be altered.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Use The Tide's official website and official channels, verify the $STARFISH contract address, carefully review transactions, and never share your seed phrase or private key.
No.
Do not provide it.
Legitimate wallet verification should never require blindly sending tokens to a stranger who contacts you.
Yes.
A logo alone does not prove an account is official.
Be extremely cautious. Fake giveaways and wallet-draining websites are common crypto scams.
It is safer to navigate independently through verified official resources.
No. The Tide can provide official channels, verification information, education, and reporting procedures, but it cannot prevent every third party from attempting fraud.
Never share your seed phrase or private key.
Not necessarily. Wallet addresses are public even when the real-world identity behind them is not immediately apparent.
Yes.
Not inherently. Third-party exchanges, payment providers, or local laws may impose their own requirements.
No.
No.
Anti-spam and anti-abuse technology may use signals such as IP, device information, or submission patterns to reduce bots, duplicate submissions, fraudulent votes, and manipulation.
No.
Country-level information can help illustrate the global reach of The Tide without unnecessarily exposing a precise personal location.
No. Only submit information appropriate for public display and for which you have appropriate permission.
That is not how The Tide is being built. The movement, acts of kindness, Wave Partners, community participation, measurable impact, and transparency form the ecosystem. $STARFISH is a tool designed to help power that ecosystem.
Because The Tide is not simply a donation platform. $STARFISH and blockchain allow the movement to connect voting, participation, public records, token activity, and measurable impact in ways that a conventional charity website does not.
You do not have to. If your goal is simply to support a Wave Partner, you can donate directly without purchasing $STARFISH.
Yes, through the current fee design. Every $STARFISH buy through the official $STARFISH/USDC market includes a 1.0% IMPACT Fee that supports the current Wave Partner. The purchase itself, however, should not be confused with a charitable donation.
No.
Because the mission is bigger than the token.
Absolutely.
Yes.
No.
No. No price outcome is guaranteed or promised.
It creates a permanent and measurable representation inside the $STARFISH ecosystem of the community's growing collective impact.
The goal is not for you to rely solely on personal trust. Blockchain records, a token with no owner, no way to create more, and no freeze, public explorer access, Founder & Team vesting disclosures, IMPACT Fee transparency, automated selection processes, published rules, public Return-to-the-Sea activity, and auditable voting are intended to let people verify important claims for themselves.
No. The Tide should not claim to be completely decentralized while real-world administration, technology, legal responsibilities, verification, and limited emergency safeguards still exist.
Not necessarily. The goal is to remove unnecessary human control and make the remaining areas of responsibility clear, limited, and transparent.
The normal process requires automated finalist selection followed by community voting. No human simply appoints the winner.
They are determined by predefined automated criteria, with relevant metrics and records made publicly verifiable.
The Wild Wave gives every legitimate, verified, qualified organization in the applicable pool a genuine chance at one finalist position.
$STARFISH holdings do not determine the number of votes. One eligible wallet receives one vote.
No. The Tide uses anti-abuse technology, transparent rules, blockchain records, and a narrowly limited emergency mechanism to make manipulation more difficult and detectable.
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
The Tide does not encourage people to borrow money, overextend themselves, or take financial risks they do not understand in order to acquire $STARFISH.
No. Information about The Tide and $STARFISH is provided to explain the ecosystem and should not be treated as personalized investment, financial, legal, or tax advice.
The Tide is operated by The Tide Global LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, with a registered business address at 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, Sheridan County, WY 82801 US.
No. The Tide Global LLC is not itself a charitable organization. Wave Partners are independent verified organizations selected through The Tide community process.
$STARFISH is intended to function as a participation and utility token within The Tide ecosystem and is not offered or promoted as an investment product. Digital-asset classification depends on applicable law, jurisdiction, facts, circumstances, structure, offering, and use; nothing in these FAQs is intended to assign $STARFISH a definitive legal classification.
Because the legal and regulatory treatment of digital assets depends on applicable law, jurisdiction, facts, circumstances, and how a token is structured, offered, and used.
Digital-asset laws and regulations continue to evolve. The Tide intends to make good-faith efforts to stay informed, operate responsibly, and comply with applicable requirements as the regulatory environment develops.
No. Our goal is not to create a pump-and-dump environment. The Tide exists to create participation, transparency, community, and positive real-world impact.
Yes.
No.
We would love for nearly anyone, anywhere in the world to be able to participate in The Tide, but crypto availability is ultimately affected by each country's laws and regulations as well as third-party service availability.
Many parts of The Tide do not require $STARFISH, including acts of kindness, nominations, direct Wave Partner support where available, and participation in the broader movement.
No.
No. Acquiring $STARFISH should not be treated as a charitable donation.
That depends on the recipient organization, donation method, donor's jurisdiction, and applicable tax law.
No. Donors should rely on information and receipts provided by the applicable organization or payment provider and consult an appropriate tax professional when necessary.
Potentially. Tax treatment varies by jurisdiction and circumstances.
No.
Absolutely.
No.
$STARFISH is the digital token connected to The Tide ecosystem. You do not need it for many forms of participation, but it powers certain functions such as monthly Wave Partner voting.
It is the Ethereum Layer 2 public network on which $STARFISH operates.
It is the tool that lets you control your blockchain assets and demonstrate control of your public wallet address.
It is a public digital record that can be independently verified.
When qualifying measurable impact happens, designated $STARFISH is permanently removed from active circulation.
It is the 1.0% fee included in every $STARFISH buy and sell through the official $STARFISH/USDC market. 100% of IMPACT Fees, less unavoidable direct third-party delivery costs, are committed to the current Wave Partner.
No.
No.
No.
At a minimum, understand how to protect your wallet, never share your seed phrase, verify the official $STARFISH contract address, understand that $STARFISH can rise or fall in value, and never acquire more than you are comfortable risking.
Base.
1,000,000,000.
Yes. The fixed original supply is 1,000,000,000 $STARFISH.
No. The intended deployed ERC-20 contract does not include an administrative function that allows The Tide to create additional $STARFISH beyond the fixed original supply.
No. The intended contract does not include an administrative freeze or pause function for ordinary $STARFISH wallets and transfers.
The intended contract has no administrative function that can expand the fixed original supply after deployment.
Liquidity / Public Launch 50%; Founder & Team 15%; Tide Operations & Growth 15%; Community Wallet 10%; Kindness Wallet 10%.
No. The current token structure does not impose a hard maximum-wallet percentage or anti-whale ownership cap.
Trades through the official $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap market are intended to include a 1.0% IMPACT Fee. Transfers or trades through unrelated third-party markets do not pay the official pool's fee.
100% of IMPACT Fees, less unavoidable direct third-party delivery costs, are committed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide Global LLC, Founder, and team retain 0% as revenue, profit, compensation, or operating income.
A 12-month cliff beginning at launch followed by 36 months of even vesting.
No. The full 500,000,000 $STARFISH Liquidity / Public Launch allocation is intended to enter a full-range $STARFISH/USDC Uniswap position at launch, and the designated launch position is intended to be permanently locked and nonwithdrawable by The Tide Global LLC.
Yes. Return-to-the-Sea burn transactions and the resulting reduction in contract-reported total supply are publicly inspectable on Base.
No. One eligible wallet receives one vote regardless of $STARFISH balance above the minimum requirement.
At least 1 $STARFISH in an eligible wallet.
No.
Yes. The objective is for relevant verification information to be publicly auditable.
No. Four finalists are determined automatically from the eligible pool using predefined criteria, while the fifth is the randomized Wild Wave.
No.
Only a narrowly defined, multisig-controlled emergency mechanism for exceptional fraud, legal, sanctions, or major technical/integrity issues.
No.
No.
A global community needs clear expectations concerning scams, impersonation, harassment, misleading financial claims, fundraising, independent events, and use of The Tide brand.
No.
No.
That is inconsistent with The Tide's mission and messaging.
Potentially, subject to the applicable Community Guidelines.
No.
Yes.
No.
No.
Report it through the applicable platform and through The Tide's official reporting process.
$STARFISH is intended for participation and utility within The Tide ecosystem and is not offered or promoted as an investment product. Nothing in these FAQs is intended to assign $STARFISH a particular legal classification. Its market value may rise or fall significantly and could lose most or all of its value. There are no guarantees of price appreciation, liquidity, returns, future utility, or regulatory treatment. If your only interest is short-term speculation and not the mission or purpose behind The Tide, $STARFISH may not be the right fit for you.
To show what can happen when ordinary people around the world choose to make a difference together.
One person creates a ripple. Ripples become waves.
Together, we create The Tide — rising together and creating positive impact around the world.
The technical descriptions in this FAQ describe the intended launch architecture. Final deployed behavior will be governed by the deployed smart contracts, official contract addresses, published Uniswap pool information, and other launch documentation. If there is any conflict, users should verify the deployed on-chain implementation through The Tide's official channels.