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the white paper · version 1

Everything we are building, written down where you can check it.

Version 1 of the Forked.gg white paper is finished and public. It covers the node network and how operators get paid for verified work, the $FORK token model in full, Aegis governance, the DAO Launchpad, FORKcast, the marketplace and the roadmap. It also says plainly what is still unfinished, because a paper that only lists the good parts is not worth reading.

Both files are around 6 MB. The PDF is the one to save or print.

version 1 published 18 August 2026 58 pages status Community Draft for Public Review

Version 1 is the only version. Every earlier draft that circulated privately is superseded and should not be quoted. If a figure you have seen somewhere does not match this document, this document is the one that counts.

what is inside

Sixteen sections, and the page each one starts on

If you only have ten minutes, read the executive summary on page 2, then section 6 on the node network and section 13 on the token model. Those three carry most of the design.

Executive Summary02
From the Chief Advisor03
01Introduction06
02Picking Up Where Helix Left Off07
03The Forked Team08
04Core Tenets09
05What Makes Forked Different10
06The Node Ecosystem11
07What Runs on the Network19
08Aegis Governance Platform22
09The DAO Launchpad23
10FORKcast, the Predictive Engine28
11The Forked.gg Marketplace31
12Roadmap33
13The $FORK Token Model35
14Go-to-Market & Adoption51
15Risk Factors53
16Conclusion55
the parts people ask about first

Four things the paper commits to in writing

0%

No team token allocation

The team holds no portion of $FORK. Its upside is equity in the operating company, so no insider is ever a structural seller of the token. Section 13 sets out what that costs us and why we took the trade.

1:1

One node, one vote

Binding governance votes are cast per node and never weighted by holdings. Aegis runs the proposal and voting machinery, and smart contracts execute the outcome once a threshold is met. Sections 4 and 8.

65%

Service revenue to operators

Node service revenue splits 65 / 23 / 10 / 2 across the operators who did the work, the company, a buyback leg and the network. Operators take the largest share because they carry the hardware. Section 13.

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FORKcast pays in points

The first version of FORKcast is points only, with no way to buy in with cash and no way to cash out. That is a wall in the ledger rather than a setting. Section 10.

No token price appears anywhere in the paper. Every figure is stated in the unit it is actually denominated in, and the document converts between them nowhere. There is no worked example and no payback period, by decision, because a projected price is the easiest thing in the world to write down and the hardest to stand behind.

what is still open

The unfinished parts, listed here as well as in the document

The paper states each of these plainly in its own pages. We are repeating them here so nobody has to go looking, and so the list sits on the public site rather than at page 53.

Found something wrong, unclear, or too good to be true? That is what a public review draft is for. Bring it to the Discord and we will answer it in the open, and if you are right it goes into the next version with the correction visible.

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