Sanctum's CLOUD-7 Passes on MetaDAO, Triggering 15M Token Final ASR Distribution

Sanctum CLOUD$0.053+5.3% Sanctum's CLOUD-7 governance proposal passed on MetaDAO META$5,212.20-1.7% MetaDAO's futarchy decision markets on August 14, approving a distribution of 15 million CLOUD CLOUD tokens to stakers before the Active Staking Rewards program closes permanently. Sanctum Investor Relations confirmed the outcome at 06:20 UTC and said claiming instructions will follow shortly.

Distribution Details: 15M CLOUD, Staking Score Pro-Rata, January 2027 Claim Deadline

The 15 million CLOUD tokens will be distributed pro-rata to Staking Score for the eleven-month period from August 24, 2025 through July 28, 2026. According to the CLOUD-7 proposal, a holder who staked for the full window earns approximately 0.234 CLOUD per CLOUD staked, equivalent to about 25.3% annualized. The tokens come from Sanctum's Community Reserve.

Stakers have until January 1, 2027 to claim, per the CLOUD-7 proposal. After that date, the claim window closes and unclaimed rewards are forfeited. Sanctum has not yet published the claiming interface but has said details are coming.

sCLOUD, the staked form of the token, will have no purpose once ASR ends. Holders can convert sCLOUD to CLOUD at a 1:1 ratio at any time; the conversion unlocks over 30 days.

CLOUD carries a market cap of $21.6 million and 79,169 holders as of August 14, per Solana Compass. The CLOUD-7 decision market generated $501,150 in total trading volume over the three-day period, per the proposal page.

How MetaDAO's Futarchy Markets Resolved the Vote

MetaDAO governs through conditional prediction markets rather than a standard token vote. For each proposal, the platform creates separate PASS and FAIL token markets, each pricing what the outcome would mean for the project's token. Whichever implied market cap is higher at market close determines the result.

For CLOUD-7, the PASS token settled implying a CLOUD market cap of $23.0 million, above the spot price of $21.6 million and the FAIL token's implied cap of $19.7 million, per the proposal page. With the PASS implied cap clearing above the FAIL cap at close, the proposal resolved as approved.

Why Sanctum Is Ending Active Staking Rewards

Sanctum introduced CLOUD staking in February 2025. An initial round distributed 30 million CLOUD across roughly 2,000 addresses at annualized yields of around 200%, and a second round followed before closing in August 2025, after which Staking Score continued accumulating for eleven months with no further distributions, per the CLOUD-7 proposal.

The CLOUD-7 proposal explains the reasoning for ending ASR:

Sanctum also states that token dilution from staking rewards has not reduced sell pressure in the past year. The final round carries a lower annualized rate than previous ones deliberately, the proposal describing the prior 200% yield as "highly unsustainable." Staking ends regardless of the vote outcome; the CLOUD-7 decision determined only whether the final distribution would happen at all.