FORUM Token Genesis 1
The FORUM token is a digital asset whose main purpose is to let the ForumOnline community make collective decisions about the future development of the project. To receive it and to use it you need a V2 account: register, open your wallet, and complete the migration to V2.
FORUM is not for sale.
FORUM is not currently for sale, and no offer, solicitation, or sale of the token is being made by ForumOnline or any authorized representative at this time. ForumOnline does not sell tokens directly to individuals, and there is no official sale, presale, or private offering underway.
If any individual, website, social media account, or other third party claims to be selling FORUM, requesting payment in exchange for it, or offering early access or allocations — it is a scam. Do not send funds or share personal information with anyone claiming to sell the token.
Any official information regarding token distribution will be communicated exclusively through the project's official communication channels.
420,000,000 FORUM for the community and the machines that keep it running.
Every slice is a group of people, not a line item. Hover to see the share.
- New registrations80,000,00019%One payment for proving you are a unique human
- Node operators105,000,00025%Run the infrastructure that publishes votes
- Community programs151,000,00036%Referrals, the one-time claim for people who were here first, community prizes, and the votes and posts programmes as they open
- Testnet contributors84,000,00020%The first and largest public testnet takes the biggest share
Three programs, live from day one.
Not a giveaway. Every token is attached to something a person or a machine actually did.
New registrations
Paid once, for proving you are a unique human with an NFC passport. The amount falls as the network fills, so verifying early is worth more. 40% arrives when you claim, 60% once you have taken part in anything.
| Verified humans | Each |
|---|---|
| 1 – 10,000 | 1,000 |
| 10,001 – 50,000 | 500 |
| 50,001 – 150,000 | 250 |
| 150,001 – 400,000 | 100 |
400,000 verified humans exhaust this pool exactly. After that, verifying earns nothing here — only on the other programmes.
Node operators
Stake FORUM, get paid for verified work: publishing votes, uptime, catching faults. Priced per unit of work.
- 105,000,000 spread over 36 months — about 2,916,667 a month across every operator
- Stake to join: 50,000 to watch, 250,000 to publish batches or relay, 1,000,000 to coordinate
- Paid per verified unit of work each epoch, not for the size of the stake
- Half of every reward locks for six months
- No operator takes more than 15% of a month; proven faults are slashed
Testnet contributors
For the people who broke the network before real users could. The first testnet is paid backwards, from a snapshot of what people actually did.
- Season 0 draws 8,400,000 from this pool; the rest waits for the seasons ahead
- 2,000 for verifying a passport and registering
- 5,000 if you also posted or voted — at least 10 posts or 5 votes
- 10,000 if you did a lot of it — at least 50 posts or 20 votes
- Paid to v2 wallets. Without one your share is held, not given away
Community programs
One pool: referrals, the one-time claim for people who were here before the token existed, community prizes, and the votes and posts programmes when they open. The rules for each are announced separately.
That was the first genesis. It is not the last.
FORUM was issued by one genesis event. Two more things follow it, and only the first of them is already decided.
Community and the infrastructure that sustains the network
Rewards participation and pays for the infrastructure that keeps the network running.
Those who created and financed the project
For the team, early contributors and backers. This is also when the token becomes the governance mechanism and the remaining supply questions are settled by governance.
So how are tokens created after this one?
The second genesis makes FORUM a governance token and adds the programmes for founders, early contributors and backers. Every genesis after that is decided by token holders together, and each one can widen the existing programmes or open new ones. The supply story does not end at a number we picked in advance.
The balance we intend to hold
Taking every genesis together, the aim is for at least 70% of the eventual supply to sit with the community, the node operators and public goods, and for no more than 30% to sit with the team, backers and advisors. This first genesis is entirely on the community side of that line. The second is where the other side gets funded, and this balance is the ceiling it has to fit under.
Because the platform should answer to its users.
We believe that the communities who build, sustain, and contribute to ForumOnline should be the ones who govern the platform. Decisions about what content is promoted, what rules are enforced, and how the platform evolves should be aligned with the users. By distributing governance rights as on-chain tokens, control over the platform is transferred from a central authority to its participants. No single entity — including the founding team — can unilaterally alter the rules, extract value from the community, or take the platform in a direction its members oppose. Governance becomes transparent, auditable, and resistant to capture.
ForumOnline is built on the conviction that public discourse deserves public ownership, and the FORUM token is the mechanism through which that ownership is exercised.
In future, FORUM holders will be granted the capacity to propose, deliberate on, and vote for changes to protocol parameters, smart contract upgrades, treasury allocations, and other matters of protocol policy, with voting power proportional to the number of tokens held or delegated.
A nonprofit legal entity established to serve the interests of the protocol. The management of this entity will remain subject to the protocol's governance process, ensuring that token holders retain ultimate authority over its direction. The nonprofit will hold assets, enter into contracts, manage any off-chain relationships and operational matters, acting as a real-world interface for the protocol.
Four things FORUM is deliberately not.
The FORUM token is not a financial instrument, security, investment product, or investment offering. It is intended solely as a governance mechanism to enable participation in the decision-making process of the project.
- 01Never paid for a vote direction.Participation and verifiable work earn rewards. Choosing “yes” does not.
- 02One verified human, one claim.The same check gates every program. A second wallet earns nothing.
- 03Every program has a cap.Unspent budget never moves to the team, to backers, or anywhere else.
- 04Nothing is sold.The only way to get FORUM is to take part.
Program sizes are governance parameters, not commitments to any individual. They can change, and every distribution is published.
The register.
- Token standard
- ERC-20 · ERC20Votes delegation · EIP-2612 permit
- Network
- Ethereum mainnet
- Contract address
- 0x47c85c05304745580ac1b077c215eef1810603d2
- Decimals
- 18
- First genesis allocation
- 420,000,000 FORUM to community and infrastructure
- Second genesis and further issuance
- Set through governance, not fixed in advance
The address above is the only FORUM contract. Anything else offered as FORUM is not ours.
This page describes the intended design of the FORUM token. It is not legal, tax or investment advice, and not an offer to sell anything.
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