Frequently asked questions
474 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 that supports independent Wave Partners. The legal structure and status of The Tide itself should not be confused with the charitable or nonprofit status of individual Wave Partners.
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, a public blockchain network built on Ethereum.
$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 Tide's liquidity pool.
No.
No.
No.
Yes. An eligible wallet must hold at least 1 $STARFISH.
No. Every $STARFISH buy and sell through The Tide's liquidity pool includes 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 Tide's liquidity pool.
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 Founder & Team allocation is subject to a 12-month cliff beginning at token launch. 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.
The Tide intends to publish relevant project wallets and vesting information so the community can verify important parts of the token structure.
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.
It is sent to a publicly identifiable burn address designated by The Tide.
No. Returned means Returned to the Sea Forever.
Yes. Return-to-the-Sea activity is publicly visible on the Base blockchain and can be inspected through the explorer resources available from The Tide website.
No. The purpose of the burn address is to permanently separate those tokens from usable circulation.
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 Tide's liquidity pool includes a 1.0% IMPACT Fee. It creates a direct connection between $STARFISH trading activity and support for the current Wave Partner.
Almost. UNCX, the service that holds The Tide's permanent lock, keeps 2% of the fees each time they are collected. The other 98% of what The Tide's permanently locked position earns is directed to the current Wave Partner.
On a $1,000 trade through The Tide's pool, the IMPACT Fee is $10.00. While The Tide provides all of the pool's liquidity, its locked position earns all $10.00; UNCX keeps $0.20 when the fees are collected, and $9.80 supports the Wave Partner.
Trades on pools The Tide did not create do not generate the IMPACT Fee. Uniswap may add a small protocol fee of its own on top; the trader pays it, and it is not part of the IMPACT Fee.
100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are directed to the current Wave Partner.
No. Under the published commitment, The Tide, the Founder, and the team retain 0% of the IMPACT Fee.
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.
No. Third-party and Base network fees are separate. The Tide can only commit the IMPACT Fees it actually receives or controls.
For every verified $1 USD attributable to qualifying IMPACT Fee proceeds and community donations benefiting Wave Partners, 1 $STARFISH is Returned to the Sea Forever, up to the 100 million $STARFISH allocation for that contribution category.
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 retains 0% and directs 100% of the IMPACT Fees it receives to the current Wave Partner. For community donations, The Tide takes 0%; donations go directly to Wave Partners through their donation systems, subject to any independent third-party processing 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's initial liquidity is being funded by the project rather than asking the community to provide the original pool.
No. The launch structure is designed so the designated initial liquidity will be permanently locked and non-withdrawable by The Tide.
It provides stronger assurance that the designated launch liquidity cannot simply be removed later by the project.
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 $STARFISH trading comes through the 1.0% IMPACT Fee, which is the trading fee the locked liquidity keeps earning. Collecting those fees never withdraws the liquidity itself.
The Tide intends to publish relevant blockchain information and official explorer resources so the designated launch-liquidity structure can be independently inspected after launch.
Every $STARFISH buy and sell through The Tide's liquidity pool includes the 1.0% IMPACT Fee. IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are tracked through the applicable project wallets or technical mechanisms and are then directed to the current Wave Partner.
No. 100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are 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 practical considerations such as transaction costs and the selected Wave Partner's receiving method, but all IMPACT Fees received by The Tide remain committed to the current Wave Partner.
They may need to be converted or handled appropriately before reaching a Wave Partner, depending on the organization's capabilities and the final operational process.
Yes. The objective is a transparent chain from IMPACT Fee generation through delivery to the Wave Partner.
Yes. Each verified $1 of qualifying IMPACT Fee proceeds benefiting Wave Partners 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 Tide's goal is to use the most defensible verified contribution data available through the selected Wave Partner's donation system.
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, qualified organization or cause 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 causes across a broad range of areas, 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 fifth position is the Wild Wave.
No.
No. The system is designed specifically to eliminate human influence from ordinary finalist selection.
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 metrics and selection records are intended to be publicly verifiable through The Tide's blockchain records.
Yes. Explorer access is available through The Tide website.
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 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.
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.
The same philosophy should apply: The Tide should not arbitrarily break a legitimate tie. Any truly equal winning result should be handled transparently and equitably among the tied winners.
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 should be controlled through a multisignature structure so that no one individual has unilateral power.
The intended structure is a multi-party approval mechanism, such as a 3-of-5 multisig, requiring multiple authorized parties to approve an emergency action.
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.
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 a public blockchain network, built on Ethereum, on which digital assets and blockchain applications can operate.
Base lets $STARFISH trade on Uniswap, which people in the United States can use, while keeping network fees to a few cents, making it suitable for an ecosystem intended for broad participation.
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 what happens, how $STARFISH moves, what is Returned to the Sea, how voting and selection activity is recorded, and how our collective impact grows 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 on-chain without necessarily putting private content itself on-chain.
No. The point of using a public blockchain is that finalized activity cannot simply be rewritten inside a private Tide database.
Yes. Explorer access is provided from the official website.
No.
ETH is the native asset used to pay network fees on Base.
$STARFISH is The Tide's token operating on Base.
Certain blockchain transactions may require a small amount of ETH to pay the Base network fee.
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.
A wallet that supports the Base network.
Yes. MetaMask is one example of a wallet that supports Base, but The Tide does not require everyone to use one particular wallet 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 provide current information about legitimate ways to acquire $STARFISH once trading is live.
Verify the official $STARFISH mint address through The Tide's official website.
Anyone can potentially create a token using a similar name, symbol, or logo. The mint address uniquely identifies the actual $STARFISH token.
Yes.
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 $STARFISH buy and sell through The Tide's liquidity pool includes a 1.0% IMPACT Fee.
100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are directed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide, Founder, and team retain 0% of the IMPACT Fee.
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.
Yes. Every $STARFISH buy and sell through The Tide's liquidity pool includes a 1.0% IMPACT Fee.
No. 100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are directed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide, Founder, and team retain 0% of the IMPACT Fee.
Not under the published 100%-to-Wave-Partner commitment.
Tide Operations & Growth is a separate 15% token allocation in the published tokenomics. Under the current model, The Tide does not fund operations by retaining a percentage of the IMPACT Fee.
The Founder & Team allocation is 15% of total supply, or 150,000,000 $STARFISH. Its market value is not guaranteed, and the allocation is subject to the published vesting schedule.
A 12-month cliff beginning at launch, followed by even vesting over the next 36 months.
No. No scheduled Founder & Team tokens vest during the first 12 months.
Yes. The Tide intends to publish relevant project wallets and vesting information so the community can independently inspect important parts of the structure.
It means making important information visible and independently verifiable rather than simply asking people to trust what The Tide says.
Examples include $STARFISH supply information, token authorities, Return-to-the-Sea activity, Founder & Team vesting, relevant project wallets, IMPACT Fee distributions, designated launch-liquidity information, voting and finalist-selection records where applicable, and other on-chain records used by The Tide.
The footer of the official Tide website provides explorer access to 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 mint 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 Tide's liquidity pool 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 and no way to create more, 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.
$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 public digital 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 Tide's liquidity pool. 100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are directed 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 mint 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.
No. All 1 billion $STARFISH are created once, at launch; the token program has no owner and no function that can create more.
No. The token program has no pause switch and no blacklist.
No. The token program has no way to create more $STARFISH, and it cannot be changed after it goes live.
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.
Yes. Every buy and sell through The Tide's liquidity pool includes a 1.0% IMPACT Fee.
100% of the IMPACT Fees received by The Tide are directed to the current Wave Partner. The Tide, Founder, and team retain 0%.
A 12-month cliff beginning at launch followed by 36 months of even vesting.
No. The designated initial launch liquidity is designed to be permanently locked and non-withdrawable by The Tide.
Yes. The designated burn address and associated blockchain activity are publicly inspectable.
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.