ForgePad Whitepaper

Executive Summary

ForgePad is a token launchpad. It covers the whole path a project takes — deploy the token, open a curve or a presale, seed liquidity, lock it, airdrop it, and prove the result on-chain — instead of leaving a founder to stitch four disconnected tools together and trust each one separately.

The chain is Robinhood Chain, because that is where launches are actually happening. On the day this was written, Uniswap v4 on that chain carried $142M of 24-hour volume across 125 pairs, and every memecoin pair created in the previous two days was a v4 pair. The BNB Smart Chain deployment and the Forge Primals collection stay where they are; nothing new is being launched there.

What separates this from a token factory with a nice front-end is where the fees go. 30% of every fee goes to the creator who produced it, through a single on-chain policy with a hard 50% ceiling on the shared portion written into the contract rather than into a document. And a graduated pool is not burned: it is locked in a contract that cannot give it back, and its trading fees keep paying the creator for as long as the pool trades.

Status, plainly: the full Robinhood Chain stack is deployed on testnet and rehearsed end to end — a curve launch, a stock-paired launch, graduation into a real Uniswap v4 pool, a trade on that pool and the fee collected from it. Mainnet is next. FORGE has not launched and will not until there is real liquidity behind it; holder rewards switch on when it does.

• Bonding-curve launches that graduate into a Uniswap v4 pool whose liquidity is locked forever.
• Direct launches with your own tokenomics, at an address you see before you sign it.
• Stock-paired launches: pair a token against tokenised TSLA, NVDA or GME instead of the native coin.
• Locker, multi-send, airdrop, vesting, token manager and on-chain certification, in one place.
• 30% of every platform fee to creators, capped in immutable code; on graduated pools a 1% trading fee split half to the creator, half to the platform — forever.

1. Why Robinhood Chain

Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Orbit L2 settling to Ethereum. Gas is paid in ETH, not BNB, and at the gas prices measured while writing this a full deployment of the ForgePad stack costs about $22 — 26 million gas at 0.34 gwei.

The reason to be there is not the technology, it is where the activity is. Tokenised equities trade on that chain with real depth: USDG at $290M of daily volume, AMC at $73M, SPY at $50M, NVDA at $30M. And the memecoins launching alongside them are quoted against those equities rather than against a stablecoin — CAT/AAPL, DOGE/HOOD, MOON/RKLB. That pairing is a product nobody else has built properly, and ForgePad has the contracts for it already.

Choosing Uniswap v4 over v3 was decided by measurement rather than preference. v4 carries roughly three and a half times the volume, every new memecoin pair is on it, and — decisively — the Robinhood testnet carries the same v4 contracts at the same addresses as its mainnet while carrying no v3 at all. That means the entire graduation path can be rehearsed for free before a single real transaction.

• Arbitrum Orbit L2, fully EVM, gas paid in ETH.
• Uniswap v4: 125 pairs, $142M of 24-hour volume, and every new memecoin launch.
• Tokenised equities with genuine depth, used as pairing assets rather than as a novelty.
• Identical v4 addresses on testnet and mainnet, so the rehearsal is real.

2. The Problem

Launching a token is not one problem. It is five, and each is currently solved by a different platform with its own fees, risks and failure modes.

Meanwhile the people who make a launchpad worth using — the creators who bring projects and the holders who bring liquidity — usually receive nothing from the fees that activity produces. The revenue accrues entirely to whoever holds the deploy key.

• Fragmentation — factories, DEXes, lockers, airdrop tools and presale platforms are separate products with separate trust assumptions.
• No standard for trust — buyers judge a launch on a Telegram group, because there is no verifiable baseline to judge it on.
• Liquidity is where launches quietly break — anti-whale limits block the pool seed, unlocked LP invites a rug, and a slippage mistake is discovered after the funds are gone.
• Creators bring the projects that make a launchpad worth visiting and are paid nothing for it.
• Platform revenue is captured entirely by the operator, so the community producing the volume has no claim on it.

3. The Solution

ForgePad puts creation, curves, presales, liquidity, locking, airdrops and trust verification behind one interface and one set of contracts, then routes the fees back to creators and holders automatically.

It is permissionless. Any wallet can create a token, open a curve or manage liquidity without KYC or registration. We do not gatekeep launches, and we do not pretend that listing here makes a project safe — the certification registry exists precisely because that claim would be worthless.

• One platform — curve, direct launch, presale, liquidity, locker, airdrop, vesting, manager, certification.
• One fee policy — a single revenue router every fee passes through, with the shared portion capped in immutable code.
• No waiting to launch — the address is computed, not searched for, so the wallet opens the moment you confirm.
• Two chains, one product — Robinhood Chain and BNB Smart Chain run the same contracts.

4. Three ways to launch

The three paths suit genuinely different projects, and the choice is asked first rather than buried in step five of a wizard.

A bonding curve costs a small fee and no liquidity: the token trades from the moment it exists, buyers move along a constant-product curve with virtual reserves, and when the curve fills, everything it collected becomes a real pool. The creator gives up control in exchange — no taxes, no premine, no ability to change anything afterwards, and an opening buy capped at 2% bought at the same price as everyone else.

A direct launch is the opposite trade. You choose the taxes, the limits and the liquidity, deploy and seed the pool in one flow, and hold trading closed until you open it. Buyers can see you hold the LP and the switches, which is why locking the liquidity is how a direct launch earns trust rather than asking for it.

A presale raises a fixed amount before trading opens, seeds the pool from the raise, and locks the LP for 180 days inside the finalize transaction itself rather than leaving it as a step someone might skip.

• Ignition (curve) — no upfront liquidity, fixed tokenomics, liquidity locked forever at graduation.
• Direct launch — your tokenomics, your liquidity, lockable for 180 days.
• Presale — raise first, open after, LP locked in the same transaction that finalises it.
• Stock-paired curve — the same curve priced in tokenised TSLA, NVDA, GME or USDG instead of ETH.

5. Graduation, and what locked liquidity means

When a curve fills, the ETH it collected and the tokens it reserved become a Uniswap v4 pool. The pool is created at the price the deposit implies, a full-range position is minted across it, and that position is minted directly to ForgeLockedLiquidity — not minted and then transferred, so there is no block in which anyone could have withdrawn it.

ForgeLockedLiquidity has no function that moves a position or its principal. It has one public function: collect, which anyone may call, and which withdraws nothing but the trading fees the position has earned and pays them out on the spot — half to the creator's wallet, half to the platform, both sides of every trade. No claim step. Earlier drafts burned the position instead, which locked the liquidity just as well but threw its fees away. Locking keeps the guarantee and keeps the fees.

The graduation path is not asserted, it is tested. The opening price, the encoded action stream, the two-step Permit2 approval that v4 requires, and the fee collection are each verified against the real Uniswap contracts on a fork of Robinhood Chain and again on its testnet — a mock would accept all of those being wrong.

• The pool opens at the price the deposit implies, verified by reading it back on-chain.
• Full range, so the pool has liquidity at every price rather than going dry when price leaves a band.
• The position is minted straight into a lock with no withdraw function; nobody, including us, can take it out.
• The pool charges 1% per trade — the same rate as every launchpad on this chain — and half of it is the creator's, forever.

6. Where the fees go

Every fee the platform collects — token creation, curve trades, presale finalisation, locks, multi-sends, certification, promoted placement — passes through one contract with one policy.

30% of every fee is credited to the creator of the token the fee came from, claimable by them at any time. The rest funds the platform. The contract enforces a hard ceiling of 50% on the shared portion, so no future configuration can promise more than the platform can pay.

Creator earnings are a pull, not a push. The router credits a balance the creator claims rather than sending on every trade, because one creator with a reverting wallet must not be able to stop everyone else from trading.

One thing has to be said plainly. Holder rewards are a setting on the router and on the locker, and today that setting is zero: FORGE has not launched, so there is nobody to pay. When FORGE launches, a holder share is switched on — it comes out of the platform's half, never the creator's — and this document is updated to say what it is. Until then, claiming that holders earn would be a lie, so the site does not claim it.

• 30% of every fee to the creator of the token that produced it.
• Half of every graduated pool's trading fees to its creator, collected on-chain by anyone, pushed straight to the creator's wallet.
• A 50% ceiling on the shared portion, immutable in the contract.
• Creator earnings are claimed, not pushed, so one bad wallet cannot halt trading.
• Holder rewards are zero on-chain until FORGE launches. They start the day it does.
• Promoted placement is paid, escrowed until the slot is served, and labelled as paid everywhere it appears.

7. The rest of the toolkit

A launchpad that stops at deployment leaves a founder to find four more tools for the week that follows. These exist so they do not have to.

Airdrop and vesting share one recipient list and differ only in where it lands: straight out, or locked on a cliff and a linear schedule. Vesting schedules cannot be revoked, cancelled, or redirected — a revocable schedule proves nothing to the person it exists to reassure, which is the entire reason to publish one.

The token manager shows an owner everything they can still change, and the list is short on purpose. Taxes and limits are fixed at deployment on a ForgePad token; there is no function to raise them, which is a fact a buyer can verify rather than a promise they have to accept.

• Token locker — lock liquidity or team tokens to a date anyone can check.
• Multi-send — pay thousands of wallets in one transaction.
• Airdrop and vesting — one list, sent now or released on a cliff and a schedule.
• Token manager — open trading, drop the limits, renounce ownership.
• Certification — a review of liquidity, contract, team and sellability, written on-chain.

8. Certification

A Forge Score is a review of four things: whether liquidity is locked or burned, what the contract can still do, whether the team is reachable, and whether the token can be sold at all.

The result is written to a public registry on-chain. That is the only part that matters: a badge rendered from a database is a badge the site can change quietly, and nobody should trust one. Anyone can read the registry directly and ignore our interface entirely.

It is a review of what could be checked at the time it was written. It is not a guarantee, it does not make a token safe, and it says nothing about price. Saying otherwise would be the most damaging sentence on the site — the first certified token that rugs would take the platform's word with it.

• Four components: liquidity, contract, team, sellability.
• Written to a public on-chain registry, readable without trusting our front-end.
• A honeypot flag is shown as prominently as a pass.
• A review, not a guarantee — and the interface says so on the page.

9. FORGE

FORGE is the platform's token, and it launches the way every other coin here launches: on ForgePad's own bonding curve, on Robinhood Chain. One billion fixed supply, no team allocation, no taxes, no admin functions. 800 million are sold on the curve; 200 million go into the Uniswap v4 pool at graduation and are locked there forever.

The creator of FORGE is the platform treasury, so the creator's share of its fees — 30% on the curve, half of the 1% pool fee after — is platform revenue rather than somebody's payday. The only tokens the treasury holds are the opening buy every creator may make: 2% of the curve supply, bought at the same price as the first public buyer, capped in the contract.

What the platform does with FORGE is buy it back. Revenue from every launch, every trade and every tool goes to the treasury, and the treasury spends part of it buying FORGE on the open pool and sending it to the burn address — one on-chain transaction each time, from the wallet everyone can read, logged in the repository. That is the same mechanism the largest launchpad on this chain runs, and it is the honest one: the token's value comes from revenue that exists, not from emissions.

Holder rewards — a share of platform fees paid to FORGE holders — are a setting on the router and the locker that is zero today. A distributor contract for a plain ERC20 is the next piece of work after launch, and when it goes live the share is switched on from the platform's half and this document says what it is.

• 1,000,000,000 fixed supply, launched on ForgePad's own curve, no team allocation, no admin.
• The treasury is the creator: FORGE's own fees are platform revenue.
• Buyback and burn from real revenue, on-chain, from the treasury wallet.
• Holder rewards switch on when the distributor exists — zero until then, and the site says so.
• Liquidity locked forever at graduation, like every coin here.

10. Forge Primals

Forge Primals is a 500-piece collection on BNB Smart Chain whose holders claim a share of the same platform revenue.

It stays on BNB Smart Chain and is not mirrored to Robinhood Chain. Bridging a collection to chase a second chain splits its holders across two contracts and two sets of token ids, and every generation of that mess has to be read forever afterwards.

Rewards accrue per token id and are claimed by the holder, so a transfer moves the future claim with the NFT rather than stranding it with a previous owner.

• 500 pieces on BNB Smart Chain, and staying there.
• 10% of every platform fee, claimable per token id.
• Claims follow the NFT when it is sold.

11. Architecture

Solidity 0.8.24 with OpenZeppelin v5. Tokens are minimal-proxy clones of a registered implementation, which is what makes a launch cost a fraction of a full deployment.

Clones bind to their implementation at creation. Registering a new implementation therefore affects only future launches — holders of an existing token never agreed to new code, and a test asserts that a live token keeps the implementation it launched with after the registry moves.

The same contracts run on both chains. Only the liquidity manager differs: BNB Smart Chain graduates into a PancakeSwap pool and burns the LP token, Robinhood Chain graduates into a Uniswap v4 pool and locks the position in ForgeLockedLiquidity, which collects its fees. Ignition calls both through the same interface, so the curve itself did not have to change.

• Solidity 0.8.24, OpenZeppelin v5, minimal-proxy clones.
• CREATE2 addresses known before signing, with the salt bound to the creator so it cannot be front-run.
• A live token keeps the implementation it launched with, permanently.
• One curve, two liquidity managers, one interface between them.
• Every contract read back on-chain after deployment rather than assumed.

12. Risks

These are the things most likely to go wrong. A whitepaper that lists none of them is not being careful, it is being quiet.

None of these are hypothetical padding. Each one is either a known limitation of the current state or a mistake this project has already made once.

• No independent third-party audit. The contracts are tested and analysed with the usual open-source tooling, which is not the same thing.
• Uniswap v4 is new and the graduation path is the most intricate code here. It is proven against the real contracts on a fork, which is the strongest evidence available short of an audit.
• Locked liquidity is permanent. There is no undo, for the creator or for us.
• Ownership of the deployed contracts sits behind a single key until a multi-signature wallet replaces it. That is the largest standing risk in the project and it is not a code problem.
• Tokenised equities are issued by third parties, can be frozen or blocked by their issuer, and several different contracts on Robinhood Chain answer to the same ticker. Quote assets are allow-listed by address for exactly that reason, and a symbol is never trusted.
• A permissionless launchpad will be used to launch bad tokens. Certification measures what can be measured; it does not prevent that.

13. Roadmap

Deploy to Robinhood Chain mainnet. Earn fees. Move ownership to a 2-of-3 multi-signature wallet. Launch FORGE once there is real liquidity to launch it into, and switch holder rewards on. Pursue an independent audit once revenue can pay for one.

• Foundation (Q2 2026) — Shipped: The full launchpad, deployed and verified on BNB Smart Chain testnet — every contract readable on BscScan.
• Revenue engine and governance (Q3 2026) — Shipped: One fee policy for the whole platform, and a governance token that pays holders from it.
• Ignition — curve launches (Q3 2026) — Shipped: A second way to launch, for projects that would rather prove demand than raise a round.
• FORGE presale (Now — BSC testnet) — In progress: The public round for the governance token. One price for everyone: no private sale, no team discount, no vesting cliff that only insiders clear.
• Robinhood Chain (Now) — In progress: The launchpad moves to where launches are actually happening, without abandoning anything already on BNB Smart Chain.
• Mainnet (When the blockers clear) — Next: Deliberately gated. We would rather be late than move real funds through an unrehearsed path.
• Beyond (Post-mainnet) — Later: Wanted, not promised. Sequenced after mainnet is stable and funded.

14. In short

ForgePad is one platform for the whole life of a token launch, on the chain where launches are currently happening, paying the creators who produce the activity — on the curve, and on the pool after it, forever.

Everything above that is a claim about code can be checked against the code. Where something is not finished, this document says so.