2025-11-17T17:22:49-08:00 2022-12-31 263084697 Lapidos Leung & Francis Inc 2424 Pine St San Francisco CA 94115 990 2022-01-01 880622815 The Symbol Syndicate SYMB 11335 NE 122nd Way 105 Kirkland WA 98034 Kristy-Leigh A Minehan President & CEO 2025-11-17 true true Mark Francis P00219854 4152922424 2022 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X 11335 NE 122nd Way 105 Kirkland WA 98034 1996291 false X N/A X 2022 DE The Symbol Syndicate is dedicated to designing, developing, and maintaining mission critical, open-source software, and improving public education on artificial intelligence, blockchain and other emerging technologies. In addition, the organization maintains clients and supporting code and products for multiple cryptocurrency protocols and DeFi projects, including (but not limited to) Bitcoin, Solana, NEM and Symbol. 3 2 6 0 1996243 0 48 0 1996291 0 0 984211 0 0 2614 986825 1009466 1009540 74 1009466 X The Symbol Syndicate is dedicated to designing, developing, and maintaining mission critical, open-source software, and improving public education on artificial intelligence, blockchain and other emerging technologies. In addition, the organization maintains clients and supporting code and products for multiple cryptocurrency protocols and DeFi projects, including (but not limited to) Bitcoin, Solana, NEM and Symbol. false false 490029 Most of 2022 was spent in finding the organizations voice and defining its mission; building the organization's brand identity; learning the rules and ropes with regards to a non-profit organization; setting up internal structure and operations; maintaining two cryptocurrency clients (NIS, for the NEM blockchain; and Catapult, for the Symbol blockchain); product improvements; and improving general education and awareness. At this time, the organization has six defined programs. Education and Awareness (shortened to Education): A program centered around increasing the general awareness of our products, and improving public education for emerging technologies. We also define any social media activity, assets, or asset creation not directly related to fundraising as education and awareness. Research: A program centered around high-quality research and data-driven reports. Research may be (but has not yet been) requested by a donor, a university, or another organization; or it may be internal research we undertake. All research created and undertaken with this program is available publicly, or will be available publicly (once completed and presented in accordance with our usual quality standards). Products: A program centered around development, design and maintenance of high quality open-source products used by the general public, such as cryptocurrency wallets or trading infrastructure. We define a product as anything that has a defined consumer - that is, a human or AI user that ingests our product in order to perform a specific function. Client: A specialized program for the development, design and maintenance of cryptocurrency clients, networking clients, and other types of clients as defined by the client-server model. Due to the specialized nature of this software, this is considered a separate program to the products category.Tooling & Infrastructure: Any software or scripts for small tools and infrastructure that the public may use in collaboration or connection with products produced by the organization (either our organization, or another), but software that does not have a large enough scope to be defined as a product. An example could be a Python script that helps the general public collect and correctly categorize their cryptocurrency transactions for reporting purposes to their local tax agency, and outputs these transactions in a format to be ingested by Lukka (a third party software used in partnership with the IRS for ingestion of cryptocurrency reporting). Other (Program): Any other program that does not yet have a defined category - usually experimental. Generally, the work byproduct of these programs is not public by default, as the result may not meet our quality standards and not be fit for general public consumption in its current form.Key Accomplishments for 2022 include:Education and Awareness: We created digital avatars (2D art, character sheets, and in some cases 3D models) and a CC0-licensed t-shirt series to recognize key contributors in open-source and cryptocurrency communities, rewarding their work in non-financial, creative ways. We also continued to develop and refine the organizations brand identity and voice. 201285 Tooling & Infrastructure: The organization overhauled their public software presence across GitHub; improved documentation; streamlined repositories for code storage and cleaned up any link rot (a term used to denote a dead hyperlink or a hyperlink that no longer points to its originally targeted web file, page, or server). 28826 Products: The organization primarily released security and bug fixes to their products. Beyond this, there were no notable achievements. Post-mortem reports on patched security issues were made publicly available on HackMD, an open-source repository for markdown format documentation. 36456 756596 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 6 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 3 2 false false false false false false false true true false false true true false true true true true false false DE X Kristy-Leigh Minehan 4256280997 11335 NE 122nd Way 105 Kirkland WA 98034 Kristy-Leigh A Minehan President & CEO 40.00 0.00 X 26372 0 0 26372 0 false false false 0 1996243 1996243 0 48 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996291 48 0 0 0 0 26372 13186 13186 0 809514 626450 183064 0 148325 114928 33397 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Payroll Processing Fees 2032 2032 Office Expense 472 472 Dues 95 95 Bank Charges 15 15 0 986825 756596 230229 0 1009540 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1009540 74 0 74 X 1009466 0 1009466 0 1009540 1009466 X false false false X 1996244 1996244 0 0 1996244 1996244 0 1996244 0 0 0 1996244 X 0.00000 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Client: The organization released multiple security and bug fixes to their client(s). There were no notable achievements. Post-mortem reports on patched security issues were made publicly available on HackMD, an open-source repository for markdown format documentation. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Tooling & Infrastructure: The organization overhauled their public software presence across GitHub; improved documentation; streamlined repositories for code storage and cleaned up any link rot (a term used to denote a dead hyperlink or a hyperlink that no longer points to its originally targeted web file, page, or server). Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The President and CEO of the board, the treasurer (where applicable), external legal and financial counsel, as well as at least one Member review the 990 for errors (both grammatical as well as factual) before it is filed. Copies are provided to the Board of Directors upon request, and may be provided to the public upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organizations internal policy requires employees to disclose any conflicts of interest with their manager or an executive director. We define a conflict of interest as any situation in which an employee, member or person of the organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. An example may be an employee holding another full-time (or part-time) position while also working at The Symbol Syndicate. If a conflict of interest is found, an employee may be immediately terminated. If the conflict of interest can be managed within reason, or the conflict of interest can be removed, the employee may remain, subject to the Board of Directors discretion. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a Review and approval of any executive directors compensation must be determined by an independent committee (the Compensation Committee), as well as cross-referenced with industry-specific sources of payroll data. As of 2022, The Symbol Syndicate did not have an independent compensation committee - thus, any executive director is paid according to their states minimum compensation laws. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 At this time, governing documents and financial statements are only made available to the public upon request. The organizations intention is to allow these governing documents and financial statements to be accessible via a public website, but as of 2022 a public presence has not yet been established.