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Introducing FORUM token

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. It is a way for the founders of ForumOnline to gradually transfer control of the project to its community. Instead of a small group making all the decisions forever, decision-making power can increasingly be shared with the people who use, contribute to, and support the project. Over time, the community can take a larger role in deciding how the project evolves.

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.

What it isn't

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.

Not a financial instrument
Not a security, not an investment product.
Not a claim on profit
No dividend, no yield, no price support.
Not a vote in public polls
Polls stay one verified human, one vote.
Not required to participate
Reading, posting and voting never require it.
Why

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.

Distribution

Two genesis events.

FORUM is introduced through two genesis events.

First

Community and the infrastructure that sustains the network

Rewards participation and pays for the infrastructure that keeps the network running.

Second

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.

Who it goes to

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.

420MFORUM
  • Participation126,000,00030%
    Registration, votes and posts
  • Node operators105,000,00025%
    Run the infrastructure that publishes votes
  • Community programs105,000,00025%
    Referrals, the claim for people who were here first, community prizes, and new programs as we add them
  • Testnet contributors84,000,00020%
    The first and largest public testnet takes the biggest share
Programs

Three programs, live from day one.

Not a giveaway. Every token is attached to something a person or a machine actually did.

Participation

126,000,000 FORUM

Three ways to earn: verify as a unique human, take part in initiatives, and write posts that other people engage with.

Registration
80,000,000 FORUM

1,000 FORUM for the first 10,000 verified humans, then 500, then 250, then 100. 40% on claim, 60% once you have taken part.

Votes
30,000,000 FORUM

Counted per distinct initiative, not per vote, and only once an initiative passes a participation threshold. Never for voting a particular way.

PostsOpens later
16,000,000 FORUM

Nothing is earned for posting. A post earns only after at least 10 distinct verified humans engage with it, sharing a fixed pool each period.

Paid when
You verify, you take part, and other people engage

Node operators

105,000,000 FORUM

Stake FORUM, get paid for verified work: publishing votes, uptime, catching faults. Priced per unit of work.

How you earn
  • 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
Paid when
Verified infrastructure work, every epoch

Testnet contributors

84,000,000 FORUM

For the people who break the network before real users do. The first and largest public testnet takes the biggest share; later seasons are smaller.

How you earn
  • Paid retroactively once a season closes
  • Scored on valid work, uptime and accepted bug reports
  • Per-person caps published before each season opens
Paid when
A testnet season closes and is scored

Community programs

105,000,000 FORUM

One pool: rewards for bringing others in, the one-time claim for people who took part before the token existed, community prizes, and new programs as we add them. The rules for each are announced separately.

Rules that hold across every program
  1. 01
    Never paid for a vote direction.
    Participation and verifiable work earn rewards. Choosing “yes” does not.
  2. 02
    One verified human, one claim.
    The same check gates every program. A second wallet earns nothing.
  3. 03
    Every program has a cap.
    Unspent budget never moves to the team, to backers, or anywhere else.
  4. 04
    Nothing 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.

Technical

The register.

Token standard
ERC-20 · ERC20Votes delegation · EIP-2612 permit
Network
Ethereum mainnet
Contract address
To be announced
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 appears here once the contract is deployed and verified. Until then, any address presented 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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