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under the hood

Keeping games alive costs real money. Here is how it pays for itself.

Servers, storage, and bandwidth are not free, and a preservation project that depends on one company footing the bill is one bad quarter away from the same dark screen it set out to prevent. So underneath Forked.gg sits an economy and an infrastructure layer, owned and run by the community, that keeps the whole thing standing on its own. None of it is required to play. All of it is here in the open if you want to see it.

what we learned

Web3 gaming made promises it could not keep. We are rebuilding the part that broke.

Early web3 games collapsed under fragile economics, short-sighted leadership, and token designs built for extraction instead of durability. Speculation drowned out gameplay. Central control quietly replaced the decentralization those projects claimed to stand for. Players were left disillusioned and communities walked away.

Forked.gg starts from what actually worked and what actually failed. The goal goes past the next launch cycle to durable infrastructure that lets real game ecosystems survive market swings, outlast their founders, and stay owned by the people who play and run them.

the ecosystem

One connected platform, assembled from proven parts

Forked.gg unifies several technology stacks into one architecture. Each piece does one job, and together they cover ownership, distribution, governance, and recovery.

FORKcast

Skill-based prediction markets on live in-game and on-stream outcomes, settled with a full audit trail and a dispute path. Live now, free, points only.

Node Network

200,000 capped node licenses, each an NFT, carrying hosting, content delivery, and earnings for the verified work the node performs.

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Marketplace

Asset exchange and player-driven economies powered by Rarible. Web2 studios enable trading straight from existing databases, no full on-chain migration.

Game Integration SDK

Embed ownership and on-chain logic into existing games with no rewrite. In-game triggers map to on-chain actions while gameplay stays familiar.

Content Marketplace

Gameplay becomes a monetizable asset. Capture, package, and distribute your best plays. Value is earned by the quality of what you contribute rather than your follower count.

Aegis Governance

One node, one vote. On-chain proposals backed by economic commitment, directing a community grant pool funded by daily emissions.

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DAO Launchpad

A recovery framework for abandoned games. Communities take ownership through on-chain coordination and keep promising titles alive.

infrastructure

A network owned by the people who run it

The node ecosystem is the foundation under every core service. Operational responsibility is spread across thousands of independent operators, which is what keeps the platform resilient, available, and resistant to capture.

200,000 node licenses, fixed supply
NFT each license is on-chain and verifiable

Broad distribution

Issuance favors long-term operators and aligned stakeholders over short-term speculation, reinforcing reliability.

On-chain from day one

Participation rights are minted on-chain. Transfers are restricted during a stabilization period, then freely transferable.

Real infrastructure work

Nodes carry distributed hosting, content delivery, and redundancy for games and marketplace services.

Rewarded for uptime

Operation is decoupled from transaction execution. Rewards track service quality: availability, consistency, reliability.

4+ coresCPU
8 GBRAM
60 GBStorage
Win · Mac · Linux64-bit OS
StableInternet

Base requirements to run a node on a standard VPS or a capable home machine, expected to rise as the network grows, so operators should plan for headroom. Setup follows the LFG Node CLI guide. The reward formula is still being defined.

license pricing

Price rises as the network fills

$500 → $10,000 per license, by claim order

200,000 licenses in total. The price starts at $500 and rises $25 for every 100 licenses claimed, up to a $10,000 ceiling. The price is the cost to claim a license, not a promise of return.

$500 $10,000 ceiling 0 200,000 licenses
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aegis governance

One node, one vote. Decisions backed by skin in the game.

Aegis is the decentralized decision layer for the ecosystem, first proposed by founding advisor Jason Brink as open, permissionless tooling free for any project to use. Forked.gg runs it that way. Even Forked itself follows the same proposal, burn, and voting rules as everyone else.

20%

Community grant pool

Governance is initially scoped to a grant pool equal to 20% of daily token emissions, funding developers, infrastructure, and ecosystem initiatives. No one has unilateral access.

1 vote

Per operational node

Voting power is not weighted by stake or balance. Influence is held by operators actively sustaining the network, verified online in real time.

250

Nodes to start a vote

A network-wide vote needs at least 250 operational nodes to signal support, each committing an economic burn. Spam and low-quality proposals get priced out.

51% · 25%

To pass

A simple majority with at least 51% approval, and a quorum of at least 25% of active nodes on a rolling 30-day average. Thresholds are themselves governable.

Node identity is NFT-verified, votes are recorded on-chain and immutable, and every action carries a mandatory economic commitment. Together that makes governance attacks economically irrational rather than merely discouraged.

the $fork token

$FORK: a working currency, built to last

$FORK is designed as fuel, access, and an integrity bond for the ecosystem, not a passive-yield instrument. The model below is a proposal for review. Figures are provisional and are not a promise of value. See the risk and legal notes.

Token migration: $LIX is now $FORK

As part of the rebrand from Helix Games, and to meet naming and copyright requirements, the token is being re-issued under a new ticker, $FORK. A snapshot of all $LIX balances has already been taken. Snapshotted $LIX will be swapped to $FORK automatically at 50 : 1 (50 $LIX to 1 $FORK), so holders do not need to take any action. $LIX is officially no longer supported. Do not buy, sell, or transfer $LIX. The snapshot is complete, so trading it now will not change your $FORK allocation.

Fair launch

No insider pre-allocation. Emission and allocation rules are enforced by publicly verifiable contracts, with safeguards against excessive accumulation.

Controlled emissions

A deterministic, contract-governed issuance schedule, released from a capped reserve on a declining curve. Predictable for planning, with protection against runaway inflation.

Earned, never printed for holding

There is no "stake your tokens and the protocol prints you more" yield. Operators earn for verified service; contributors earn through governance-approved grants.

Chain-flexible

Core logic is decoupled from any single chain. The first deployment target for $FORK is BNB Chain, and the system is not bound to it.

1,000,000,000 $FORKFixed maximum supply. No function can mint beyond the cap. Every emission is a scheduled release from a pre-allocated reserve, never new inflation on top of it.

Emissions

Daily emissions are drawn from the Emissions Reserve and split 90% to node operators and 10% to the DAO Grant Pool governed through Aegis. The company takes 0% of emissions. The rate declines on a published schedule as the reserve draws down.

No team allocation

The team holds zero $FORK. The only upside for the team is equity in the operating company, so there is no founder bag to unlock and no insider supply waiting to sell. No cheap private or VC rounds.

Proposal for review. Supply, allocation, and the emission curve are provisional and subject to legal review before any external use. Nothing here is an offer or a promise of profit.

roadmap

Shipping in phases, saying plainly what is built

Target windows are still being set. The phases below reflect the actual build state rather than a wish list.

01

FORKcast MVP in progress

Cred-only, points-only streamer prediction market: accounts, markets, staking, manual resolution with an audit log, brand UI. A working, auth-gated app with data that survives a restart.

02

Public beta

Hardened auth, hosted deployment, the dispute flow, and the net-worth leaderboard in front of real users.

03

Token and node groundwork

$FORK design finalized with counsel, the node-license model and economics defined, and independent security audits commissioned.

04

Ecosystem expansion

The Marketplace, the Game Integration SDK, and the DAO Launchpad come online on top of the node network.

risk & legal

What can go wrong, said plainly

Participating in digital assets and tokens carries real risk, including total loss. This is a summary of the main ones, and it is not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice.

Regulatory

Tokens, node licenses, and prediction markets are regulated differently across jurisdictions, and the rules are changing. Features here, especially any cash on-ramp or cash-out, may be restricted, delayed, geofenced, or changed to comply.

No promise of value

$FORK and node licenses may lose value or become worthless. Burns, emissions, and other mechanics manage supply. They are not promises about price.

Technology

Bugs, exploits, and smart-contract failures can cause loss. Audits reduce this risk but do not eliminate it.

Execution

The project depends on its team and may not deliver the roadmap on time, or at all.

Third parties

Some capabilities depend on third-party platforms and partnerships that may change.

Liquidity

Assets may be illiquid or volatile.