ForgePad Whitepaper

Executive Summary

ForgePad is a token launchpad on BNB Smart Chain. It covers the full path a project takes — deploy the token, raise a presale, seed liquidity, lock it, and prove the result on-chain — without hopping between four disconnected tools and trusting each one separately.

What separates it from a token factory with a nice front-end is where the fees go. Every fee the platform collects passes through a single on-chain policy that pays 10% to Forge Primals NFT holders and 10% to FORGE governance token holders before the remainder reaches the treasury. That split is enforced in code with an immutable 20% ceiling — not a promise in a document.

Status, stated plainly: the complete stack is deployed and verified on BNB Smart Chain testnet, and the FORGE governance presale is running there now. Mainnet is deliberately gated behind a treasury multisig and a slippage decision. Solana is switched off in the product, and this paper does not count it as shipped.

• Token factory with CREATE2 vanity addresses ending in ffff, with the salt bound to the creator so an address cannot be front-run.
• Presales that seed the pool and lock the LP for 180 days in the finalize transaction itself.
• Forge Score — a 0 to 100 trust rating written to a public registry, verifiable without trusting our interface.
• FORGE — a fixed-supply governance token with checkpointed votes that pays BNB dividends from platform revenue.
• Forge Primals — 500 NFTs whose holders claim a share of the same revenue.

1. The Problem

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

Meanwhile the people who fund a launchpad's growth — early holders and community members — usually receive nothing from the fees that growth produces. Revenue accrues entirely to whoever holds the deploy key.

• Fragmentation — factories, DEXes, lockers and presale platforms are separate products with separate trust assumptions.
• No standard for trust — buyers evaluate a launch on vibes and a Telegram group, because there is no verifiable baseline.
• Liquidity is where launches quietly break — anti-whale limits block the pool seed, unlocked LP invites a rug, and slippage errors go unnoticed until funds are gone.
• NFT collections promise utility and deliver a picture, with no mechanism turning platform activity into holder income.
• Platform revenue is captured entirely by the operator, so the community creating the volume has no claim on it.

2. The Solution

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

The platform is permissionless. Any wallet can create a token, open a presale or manage liquidity without KYC or registration. We do not gatekeep launches, and we do not pretend that listing on ForgePad makes a project safe — that is exactly what Forge Score exists to measure.

• One platform — factory, presales, liquidity, locker, score, multi-send and dashboard.
• One fee policy — a single Revenue Router contract every fee passes through, with the holder split capped in immutable code.
• Verifiable trust — scores and locks live in public registries, readable by anyone, independent of our front-end.
• Aligned ownership — FORGE holders receive BNB from platform revenue and hold the votes that steer it.

3. Platform Features

Seven surfaces make up the product. Each is a deployed contract on BNB Smart Chain testnet, verified on BscScan, with addresses published on the status page.

• Token Factory — deploy a BEP20 with buy/sell/transfer taxes, anti-whale limits, anti-bot blocks and a Forge Badge. Standard and dividend-paying token types. Creation fee 0.05 BNB.
• Instant Launch — create the token and seed its pool in one guided flow, with trading held off until you choose to enable it, and an optional 180-day LP lock in the same sequence.
• Presale System — softcap and hardcap, per-wallet limits, optional whitelist, refunds if the softcap is missed, and automatic LP creation plus a 180-day lock on successful finalize. Listing fee 0.1 BNB plus 2% of the raise.
• Liquidity Manager — add and remove liquidity on PancakeSwap without leaving the site, including the router exclusion that anti-whale limits otherwise block.
• Token Locker — time-locked LP and token storage with a public registry. Fee 0.02 BNB per lock.
• Multi-Send — airdrop BNB or tokens to up to 200 addresses per batch. Fee 0.05 BNB per batch.
• Explorer and Dashboard — every ForgePad token with its score and liquidity, and a per-wallet view of tokens, presales, LP positions, locks and claimable revenue.

4. The Forge Score System

Forge Score is a 0 to 100 rating across four dimensions, each worth 25 points: liquidity, contract, community and team. Tokens scoring 75 or above carry the FORGE CERTIFIED badge.

The score is written to ForgeScoreRegistry on-chain. Anyone can read it directly from the contract — the badge on our site is a rendering of that data, not the source of it. A score you can only see on the issuer's website is marketing; a score in a public registry is evidence.

Authorised scorers can set a honeypot flag, which forces the total to 0 and leaves a permanent on-chain warning regardless of the other dimensions.

• Liquidity (25) — pool exists on a DEX, LP is locked, and the lock runs six months or longer.
• Contract (25) — verified source on BscScan, ownership renounced, no mint function after deploy.
• Community (25) — website, Telegram and X presence, plus real holder distribution.
• Team (25) — vesting configured, and KYC where the project has completed it.

5. FORGE — the governance token

FORGE is the platform's own token. It does two things: it carries the votes that decide how ForgePad develops, and it pays BNB to the people holding it, funded by what the platform actually earns.

Supply is fixed at 100,000,000, minted once in the constructor. There is no mint function afterwards — not a disabled one, not an owner-gated one. It does not exist in the bytecode.

The design constraint was simple: no owner function may take holder dividends. Trading fees are optional, capped at 10% in immutable code, and currently set to zero. The only path for BNB to leave the dividend pool is a holder claiming their own share.

Dividends use claim-based magnified-per-share accounting, the pattern already proven in the NFT revenue share. You claim when you want and pay only your own gas — nothing is force-pushed, so one reverting address cannot stall distribution for everyone else.

• 100,000,000 fixed supply — 40% public presale, 30% liquidity locked 180 days, 30% treasury and operations.
• No separate team or marketing wallet, and no private round at a better price than the public one.
• ERC20Votes checkpoints and ERC20Permit — Snapshot voting works today, and an on-chain Governor can be added without migrating holders.
• Hold 1,000 FORGE or more to accrue dividends; the floor stops dust wallets from bloating distribution.
• Optional trading fees on FORGE itself are currently 0%. If they are ever switched on, 70% of what they raise goes to holders and 30% to the treasury — separate from, and on top of, the platform fee split above.

6. Forge Primals and NFT revenue share

Forge Primals is a collection of 500 pixel primates on BNB Smart Chain. Holders claim a proportional share of 10% of all platform fees, in BNB, with no staking and no lockup.

Distribution uses an accumulator model, so a claim costs the same whether the collection has ten holders or five hundred. Claim from the NFT Rewards page whenever a balance has accrued.

The collection is an ERC721Enumerable with ERC-2981 royalties and collection-level metadata, so explorers and marketplaces index it correctly rather than showing a blank listing.

• Revenue reaches holders from token creation, LP locks, presale listings, presale success fees and multi-send batches.
• Per-NFT income scales with platform activity and is not guaranteed — a quiet month pays close to nothing.
• Mint price 0.1 BNB, maximum 5 per wallet, 500 total.

7. Revenue Model

Every fee the platform charges passes through ForgeRevenueRouter, a single contract that splits it before the treasury sees anything. There is no manual step, no off-chain accounting and no discretionary payout.

The split is 10% to Forge Primals holders, 10% to FORGE holders, and 80% to the treasury. The owner can adjust the two holder shares, but their combined total can never exceed 20% — that ceiling is a constant in deployed code and cannot be raised by any transaction.

• Token creation — 0.05 BNB.
• Presale listing — 0.1 BNB, plus 2% of the amount raised on successful finalize.
• Token or LP lock — 0.02 BNB.
• Multi-Send — 0.05 BNB per batch of up to 200 recipients.
• Forge Score request — 0.01 BNB.
• Every one of the above: 10% NFT holders, 10% FORGE holders, 80% treasury.

8. Technical Architecture

Contracts are Solidity ^0.8.24 on OpenZeppelin v5: ForgeToken and ForgeDividendToken behind a factory type registry, ForgeTokenFactory, ForgeLiquidityManager, ForgeTokenLocker, ForgePresale and ForgePresaleFactory, ForgeScoreRegistry, ForgeReferral, ForgeMultiSend, ForgeRevenueRouter, ForgeNFTRevenueShare and ForgeGovToken.

Front-end is Next.js App Router with TypeScript, Tailwind, wagmi and RainbowKit, deployed at forgeprimals.xyz. Contract addresses are compiled into the client statically, so a misconfigured environment fails loudly rather than silently reporting a working platform as unavailable.

Token addresses are mined with CREATE2 so every ForgePad token ends in ffff. The salt is bound to the creator's address inside the contract, so a watcher cannot observe a pending creation and steal the vanity address.

• ReentrancyGuard plus checks-effects-interactions on every path where BNB leaves a contract.
• Presale finalize requires the full claimable allocation to already be deposited, so buyers can never pay into a presale they cannot claim from.
• Buyers can self-refund 30 days after a presale's end time if it was never finalized.
• Emergency withdrawals, where they exist, are restricted to the treasury behind a 48-hour timelock and cannot reach holder dividends.
• No independent third-party audit has been performed. The code is verified on BscScan and open to inspection; treat that as the honest state, not as an audit.

9. Roadmap

The live roadmap, with current status on every phase, is published at forgeprimals.xyz/roadmap. Summary below.

• 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.
• 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.

10. Risks

We would rather state these plainly than have you discover them later.

ForgePad is permissionless. A token launched here is not endorsed by us, and Forge Score measures observable properties — it cannot detect intent. A project can score well and still fail.

• No independent security audit has been carried out. This is a deliberate decision, not an oversight, and it means undiscovered contract bugs are a real possibility.
• A token that distributes revenue to holders may be treated as a security in your jurisdiction. FORGE has not been registered anywhere and no legal review has been completed.
• Dividends depend entirely on platform activity. Low volume means low or zero distributions, and past distributions predict nothing about future ones.
• Liquidity operations currently accept any execution price. At testnet volumes this is immaterial; it is listed as a mainnet blocker for exactly that reason.
• The platform runs on BNB Smart Chain testnet. Test BNB has no monetary value, and testnet state can be reset by the network operators at any time.

11. Community

ForgePad aligns four groups through one revenue mechanism: the people building the platform, the NFT holders, the projects launching on it, and the FORGE holders who vote on its direction.

Builders get launch infrastructure plus a credibility signal buyers can verify. Buyers get registries they can read without trusting anyone's marketing. Holders get a claim on the fees that all of that activity produces.

• Website — forgeprimals.xyz
• Telegram — @ForgePadCommunity
• X — @ForgePad_

12. Conclusion

Most launchpads are a token factory with a fee switch pointed at one wallet. ForgePad is built on the opposite assumption: that a launchpad should be owned by the people who use it, and that ownership should mean a verifiable on-chain claim on revenue rather than a governance forum nobody reads.

The contracts are deployed and the mechanism works end to end on testnet today. What comes next is the unglamorous part — a multisig on the treasury, a decision on slippage, and only then real money. That order is the point.