# Bean Sprout

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Bean Sprout is currently inactive.
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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)](https://docs.bean.money/almanac/archives/bean-sprout/bsm-dashboard).

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

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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).
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Bean Sprout Proposals, or BSPs, are proposals to use the Bean Sprout budget. Anyone with 0.1% of the Stalk supply or [BSM](https://docs.bean.money/almanac/archives/bean-sprout/bsm-dashboard) 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.