# Bean Sprout {% hint style="info" %} Bean Sprout is currently inactive. {% endhint %} Bean Sprout is a Beanstalk accelerator program to facilitate rapid development on and around Beanstalk in a decentralized fashion. Bean Sprout is responsible for the incubation of [Root](https://roottoken.org/). ### Funding Like Beanstalk Farms, Bean Sprout does not have a treasury and has historically been minted a a budget by the Beanstalk DAO via BIP. Budget funds are custodied by the [Bean Sprout Multisig (BSM)](/almanac/archives/bean-sprout/bsm-dashboard.md). Past BIPs that funded Beanstalk Sprout: * [BIP-8: Beanstalk Q1 2022 Budget](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Governance-Proposals/blob/master/bip/bip-08-beanstalk-budget-q1-2022.md) (included Beanstalk Farms and Bean Sprout) * [BIP-23: Bean Sprout Q3 2022 Budget](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Governance-Proposals/blob/master/bip/bip-23-bs-budget-q3-2022.md) * [BIP-27: Bean Sprout Q4 2022 Budget](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Governance-Proposals/blob/master/bip/bip-27-bs-budget-q4-2022.md) Monthly reports on how Bean Sprout spent its budget can be found [here](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Farms-Operations/tree/main/bean-sprout). ### Spending {% hint style="info" %} Currently, Bean Sprout is not actively funded. The last Bean Sprout budget was the Q4 2022 budget. Past BSPs can be read [here](https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Beanstalk-Governance-Proposals/blob/master/bsp). {% endhint %} Bean Sprout Proposals, or BSPs, are proposals to use the Bean Sprout budget. Anyone with 0.1% of the Stalk supply or [BSM](/almanac/archives/bean-sprout/bsm-dashboard.md) signers can propose a BSP. BSPs are voted on by Stalkholders. BSPs that propose to spend less than or equal to 25,000 Beans are optimistically approved unless a quorum of 10% of the Stalk supply is reached, after which the majority vote determines the outcome of the vote. BSPs that propose to spend more than 25,000 Beans must reach a quorum of 10% of the Stalk supply and a majority vote For in order to pass. A BSP is not required for the BSM to send payments valued at under 4,000 Beans. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.bean.money/almanac/archives/bean-sprout.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.