Intellectual property
365 pages describing a financial system that lives in orbit.
SovereignSky's international patent application, published as WO2021030288A1, sets out the architecture for a space-based blockchain and the satellite-delivered payment and aid network built on top of it.
In plain language
What the filing describes.
A summary for readers who are not patent attorneys. The published document is the authoritative text.
Blockchain nodes carried on satellites
Distributed ledger processing hosted on orbiting spacecraft rather than on terrestrial servers, with transactions validated and signed in space.
Satellite-linked wallets on the ground
Portable modem devices and connectivity units that let a wallet transact during satellite passes, without fixed internet or a bank branch.
Currency issuance and transfer
Mechanisms for issuing and moving digital value across the space segment, including separate humanitarian and commercial flows.
Direct humanitarian distribution
Routing donated value to identified recipients and their spending instruments with minimal intermediation.
This page is an informal summary provided for context. It is not legal advice and does not define, extend or limit the scope of any claim. Refer to the published application for the full and controlling text.
365 pages
A filing that describes an entire financial system in orbit.
Space-based nodes, satellite-linked wallets, offline settlement and orbital notarisation — claimed end to end.
Why it matters
Being first is only useful if it is defensible.
Filed before the field existed
The application predates the current wave of orbital compute and direct-to-device satellite services.
Backed by a working demonstration
The December 2020 in-orbit signature on AprizeSat-5 turned the concept into a recorded technical result.
A base for what comes next
Modern AI, confidential compute and post-quantum signing extend the same architecture rather than replace it.
Filed before the rest of the world started looking up.
WO2021030288A1 — published, public, and the foundation of everything on this site.