The Infrastructure Layer to Define, Launch, and Monetize Tokenized Economies
The Forte Protocol is the customizable, end-to-end infrastructure layer for tokenized economies. It addresses key barriers faced by developers – risk management, fragmented liquidity, and secure value transfer – by providing a set of adaptable solutions that work together as a unified system: the Rules Engine, Liquidity Engine, and Forte Pay. Collectively, these products enable projects to define, launch, and monetize complex, diverse tokenized economies with built-in risk management, liquidity, and payment services.
$FORTE is the native utility token that powers the Protocol. It is used across all core modules, creating organic demand and high-frequency usage from developers, liquidity providers, and users transacting within the ecosystem.
Importantly, $FORTE will be the first native protocol token deployed with integrated Rules Engine controls, allowing transfer conditions and compliance logic to be enforced on-chain from day 1. This not only validates the Rules Engine in production – it ensures governance and economic controls are prioritized by design.
$FORTE Token Utility
Access: Developers pay in $FORTE to use services such as complex rules deployment via the Rules Engine, custom liquidity pool creation through the Liquidity Engine, and enabling seamless value rails via Forte Pay. Since these services are essential for launching and operating token economies, $FORTE usage is tightly coupled to Protocol adoption.
Rewards: $FORTE is distributed as a reward to liquidity providers, rule template creators, and ecosystem contributors. These incentives drive recurring buy pressure as participants acquire $FORTE to stake or unlock additional protocol functionality.
Governance and Staking: $FORTE holders govern protocol upgrades and grant funding. Staked tokens are locked for added governance rights, reducing circulating supply while increasing long-term alignment.
Unlocking Tokenized Economies
The rise of distributed ledger (or blockchain) technology has opened up tremendous economic potential. The ability of the blockchain to tokenize diverse types of assets and to connect a broadly dispersed set of participants using verifiable, tamper-resistant records makes new types of digital economies possible, unlocking new opportunities to create and exchange value.
Tokenization transforms trillions in traditionally unavailable or illiquid assets, including not just digital assets but also real estate, securities, and fine art, into tradeable, accessible markets. Further, fractional ownership breaks down barriers, allowing virtually anyone, anywhere to invest in high-value assets, democratizing wealth creation and expanding global liquidity.
Tokenization unlocks new economic possibilities.
These decentralized digital economies face many of the same foundational challenges as traditional economies. Participants need to feel that their transactions are compliant with applicable laws and protected from bad actors, that their personal information is secure but private, and that the economies they participate in are safe and stable, with consistent payment processing and minimal volatility.
These challenges have acted as a barrier between blockchain technology and its full potential, deterring participation from cautious users and major institutions. Despite showing growing interest in tokenized assets, with institutional investors expecting digital assets to constitute 7.2% of their portfolios as early as 2027 (The Economist x OKX), according to reports from EY and BNY Mellon, a lack of trusted and compliant partners has held these institutions and their clients back. Digital economies need to be able to meet these challenges to unlock their full value.
The decentralization that opens opportunities for digital economies can also exacerbate the challenges faced by these economies in meeting the needs of their participants, particularly at their earliest and most vulnerable stages. In centralized digital economies, the developer has the control needed to gather information about participants and restrict access to the economy for bad actors; however, this power is exclusively held by the centralized developer and remains opaque for users. The developer of a centralized digital economy, because they retain complete control of supply and price, is also able to provide theoretically infinite liquidity and consistent pricing to their users, even at early stages when supply and trade volume are low. However, liquidity is one-sided, and pricing is dictated entirely by the owner of the platform, rather than the market.
In order to meet these challenges without the control that centralization provides, developers of decentralized digital economies need new tools. In particular, they need mechanisms to manage tokenized assets and on-chain environments, to safeguard users while preserving their privacy, and to facilitate the exchange of tokenized assets. These tools are necessary to provide a stable basis of compliance with global regulations, safeguards for users and their privacy, and strong liquidity depth. Healthy and sustainable economies need these foundational elements.
The Forte Protocol
The Forte Protocol, together with its native token $FORTE, is designed to provide those solutions. The Protocol’s components work together to provide a flexible, end-to-end infrastructure layer that empowers developers to build tokenized economies customized to meet their project’s unique needs.
The custom on-chain business and compliance logic that can be created by the Rules Engine give developers the ability to manage volatility, restrict bad actors, and enforce project-specific logic in a decentralized, transparent manner.
Dynamic liquidity pools created using the Liquidity Engine build strong early-stage liquidity.
Forte Pay provides the infrastructure for secure web3 payment processing and value transfer.
With this infrastructure in place, digital economies are able to unlock the potential of tokenization.
In Practice
Decentralization and tokenization open up avenues for the creation of new types of digital assets, and for these assets to be exchanged in new ways that allow the value created to be shared more equitably. The creation of new kinds of digital economies will unlock opportunities across a wide array of industries and business models.
However, without the solutions provided by the Forte Protocol, the challenges of providing a safe and stable economy with consistent liquidity and seamless value transfer hinder the ability of developers to fully unlock these opportunities.
The Forte Protocol provides infrastructure solutions that are flexible and adaptable, to meet the unique needs of tokenization projects. With these solutions, token projects of all kinds can meet these challenges:
Define rules and economic controls
Launch dynamic liquidity pools
Monetize with all-in-one value rails
Through the Forte Protocol, developers and users both benefit from the growth of the digital economy they participate in and care about, resulting in a positive-sum experience.
The adaptability of the Forte Protocol means that its tools can help meet the needs of tokenization projects across industries, for example:
Stablecoin & real world asset (RWA) projects can use the Protocol to define built-in logic to manage compliance obligations (such as whitelisting, regional restrictions, or collateral checks) and business needs (including redemptions, investor access, and distribution rights) - all on-chain and fully programmable, with liquidity and payment rails fully integrated.
Application-specific projects (including DeFi projects) can take advantage of the Protocol to launch capital-efficient liquidity pools with no upfront collateral, with embedded policy logic and compliant payment systems for their native tokens.
Loyalty systems & gaming projects can easily monetize in-app assets and incorporate real-world rewards while using programmable logic to govern rewards distribution to verified wallets.
These new digital economies have incredible potential to scale up and produce value for all participants. However, for these economies to function effectively, they need a safe and stable foundation from which to scale. In centralized applications, those elements can be manufactured. In decentralized economies, they need to be carefully constructed by developers and reinforced through effective protocol and application design, but when they exist, they can unlock unique new opportunities for value accrual and exchange.
The Protocol gives developers of decentralized economies the tools they need to do just that.
Define, Launch, Monetize Your Token Economy
The Forte Protocol and its solutions have been built by an ecosystem of partners to support developers in ensuring that digital assets are secure, compliant, and built for real-world adoption. Together, the infrastructure layer offered by the Forte Protocol allows developers to create and bootstrap complex digital asset economies while meeting business and compliance needs and providing users with simple mechanisms to transact and transfer value with privacy and confidence.
Define: Rules Engine
The Rules Engine is a modular solution that empowers developers to manage tokenized economies and build safe, on-chain environments. With the Rules Engine, developers can define and enforce programmable business and compliance logic, establish transaction guardrails, manage regulatory obligations, and mitigate risks from volatility, bad actors, and risky transactions – all while supporting long-term token utility and economic health.
Rules can apply at the token level to ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens, including to a subset of such tokens, or at the application level, affecting all tokens in the application.
Developer-friendly UI
The Rules Engine’s simple UI makes it easy to define and enforce programmable logic. Developers can choose from rule templates created by Forte and other users, building on what’s worked for others, or design custom rules with easy-to-use tools that streamline the development process.
On-chain vesting schedules and task-gated token transfers
Developers can use the Rules Engine to manage asset allocation and distribution, enforced transparently on-chain. Rules can be transfigured to implement on-chain vesting schedules and task-gated token transfers, allowing developers to set the guardrails of their economy.
ZK Privacy Solution
Forte uses zero knowledge (ZK) proofs to enforce compliance without exposing user data. The ZK Privacy Solution can verify identities, enforce policy compliance and ensure transaction integrity without compromising user privacy, allowing users to engage with confidence in digital economies that are secure and compliant.
Data oracles
Bridge on-chain rule execution with off-chain data through data oracles. Developers can integrate their own data with the rules, including user data or compliance management tools.
Launch: Liquidity Engine
The Liquidity Engine empowers developers with unprecedented control – it allows developers to launch liquidity pools with no upfront collateral and dynamically adjusts price responsiveness to align with their economy’s goals, delivering optimized market behavior. The Liquidity Engine enables gradual, frictionless bootstrapping that evolves alongside their growing ecosystem.
Zero upfront collateral
Through its collateral accrual function, the Liquidity Engine allows for the gradual bootstrapping of liquidity with no initial collateral, which provides the benefits of liquidity to community-oriented projects and new projects where tokens have not had time to circulate widely.
Configurable price responsiveness
The Liquidity Engine provides developers with adjustable parameters to manage volatility and market behavior. Developers are able to configure the starting price and can dynamically adjust price responsiveness, or how much the price changes after a trade of a given size.
Dynamic fees
Dynamic fees based on aggregate transaction volume serve to offset impermanent loss more efficiently than traditional fees and help maintain stability. $FORTE will serve as the medium of exchange for transaction fees.
Access liquidity across chains
Using $FORTE, the Forte Protocol’s native token, developers can consolidate liquidity across L1, L2, and L3 chains. This unlocks even greater liquidity for developers and their projects.
Monetize: Forte Pay
Forte Pay is an end-to-end solution for secure Web3 payment processing and value transfer. A payment infrastructure that unifies traditional finance and blockchain technology, enabling seamless transactions involving fiat, crypto, appcoins, and crypto-to-NFT - all through a single intuitive interface.
Universal APIs for fiat and crypto rails
With just one integration, developers can simply and straightforwardly implement APIs for both fiat and crypto rails. Integration is easy, with no need for patchwork.
Regulated by global entities
Forte Pay leverages partnerships with regulated entities around the globe to meet compliance standards. Our partners hold licenses including New York’s BitLicense and EU registration as a virtual asset service provider (VASP).
Graduated KYC module
Forte Pay makes compliance user-friendly with a graduated KYC module that scales with user engagement. This allows even users who may be unfamiliar with web3 to feel secure and confident interacting with digital asset economies.
Each product is modular and can be integrated independently. However, used together, they form a cohesive stack to help projects define, launch, and monetize their tokenized economies.
The Fuel of the Forte Ecosystem: $FORTE
The Protocol’s native token, $FORTE, helps the Protocol to support stable and compliant digital asset economies by encapsulating and enhancing the positive network effects that arise from increased activity and users in a well-designed economy.
$FORTE is an ERC-20 token available on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain, and other EVM-compatible chains. It supports the stability of digital asset economies that utilize the Liquidity Engine, provides access to certain Protocol features offered by the Forte Foundation and its ecosystem partners, and serves as the governance mechanism for the Protocol.
Design Principles
The design of the Protocol and $FORTE has been guided by a clear set of principles. These principles aim to ensure that the Protocol serves as an efficient solution to the problem it was built to address, driving sustainable Protocol value and connecting Protocol users to that value.
These principles are:
A Clear and Efficient Solution
To create a Protocol that directly addresses the defined problem as efficiently and sustainably as possible.
To only introduce a native token to the Protocol if the Protocol could not function effectively without one.
Driving Sustainable Protocol Value
To connect the value of any native token directly to the value of the Protocol, enabling the equitable sharing of protocol value among all network participants.
To sustainably incentivize usage of the Protocol for all network participants such that inflationary rewards are not a significant motivator for participation.
Connecting the Protocol and its Users
To serve as an effective numeraire for any network the Protocol supports by limiting token volatility and helping maintain consistent liquidity.
To provide an adaptive value-out mechanism for network participants that ensures easy access to a participant’s network value share while protecting other participants from unnecessary volatility.
Functions
$FORTE serves multiple functions within the Protocol ecosystem. At its most basic level, $FORTE provides a marker of total protocol value and consolidates liquidity across L1, L2 and L3 chains. In addition to these technical functions, $FORTE is the network currency for Protocol access, rewards, and governance, as well as Liquidity Engine transaction fees.
Access
Developers pay in $FORTE to access services within the Protocol ecosystem that help launch and operate token economies, including but not limited to:
Rules Engine advanced features, including the ZK Privacy Solution, custom rules and oracles, complex rule deployment, and custom features developed by other users;
Liquidity Engine advanced features, including custom liquidity pools and liquidity consolidation across L1, L2, and L3 blockchains;
Integrated value rails through Forte Pay.
Rewards
$FORTE serves to support consistent value growth for the Protocol by incentivizing contributions to network value. Developers and other ecosystem participants may receive rewards [for early adoption and ]for value-added contributions such as providing liquidity, creating custom rule templates, sharing data, and creating educational content. The Protocol will also establish grant funding for builders and ecosystem participants who are developing critical infrastructure that benefits the Forte Protocol ecosystem, such as specialized data oracles.
Governance
Holders of $FORTE can participate in voting and other decision-making activities to guide the Protocol's growth and evolution, including protocol upgrades and grant funding. Staked tokens are locked for added governance rights, reducing circulating supply while increasing long-term alignment.
Medium of Exchange
The $FORTE token serves as the medium of exchange for all Liquidity Engine transaction fees. Transaction fees associated with use of the Liquidity Engine must be paid in $FORTE.
Cross-chain Liquidity
$FORTE collateralizes any tokenized assets in the network, including fungible and non-fungible assets. Through the Liquidity Engine, $FORTE serves to source liquidity across L1 and L2 chains. By enabling cross-application liquidity access, developers using the Protocol and $FORTE can focus on designing token applications and utility rather than market structure. Developers will receive rewards for contributing liquidity through the Liquidity Engine.
$FORTE Network Effects Flywheel
$FORTE underpins 3 reinforcing loops that drive transactional demand and recurring volume:
Rules Engine Loop: Developers use $FORTE to create custom rule templates, such as whitelists or transfer conditions for their tokens. As more templates are created, used, and paid for in $FORTE, the marketplace expands and the Rules Engine evolves into a high-volume service layer for token-level controls.
Liquidity Engine Loop: Developers launch dapp-specific, capital-efficient liquidity pools using $FORTE. Users contribute liquidity by engaging with the project, while $FORTE rewards accrue to the developer. The more trading activity these pools generate, the more $FORTE is earned, spent, and re-deployed, driving sustained token volume across the ecosystem.
Forte Pay Loop: Forte Pay enables seamless on- and off-ramps, conversion services, and embedded KYC. Developers use $FORTE to pay for payment processing and to run off-chain KYC checks through Forte’s regulated partners. These verified wallets are then referenced by the Rules Engine, allowing compliant transactions across dapps.
Across these products, demand for $FORTE scales with Protocol usage. Since access rights, rewards, and governance participation are transacted in $FORTE, there is constant value transfer via the token. This creates organic trading volume as developers, contributors, LPs, and users enter and exit positions based on protocol usage, governance cycles, or access to ecosystem services.
$FORTE is an ERC-20 token available on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain, and other EVM-compatible chains. It supports the stability of digital asset economies that utilize the Liquidity Engine, provides access to certain Protocol features offered by the Forte Foundation and its ecosystem partners, and serves as the governance mechanism for the Protocol.
Design Principles
The design of the Protocol and $FORTE has been guided by a clear set of principles. These principles aim to ensure that the Protocol serves as an efficient solution to the problem it was built to address, driving sustainable Protocol value and connecting Protocol users to that value.
These principles are:
A Clear and Efficient Solution
To create a Protocol that directly addresses the defined problem as efficiently and sustainably as possible.
To only introduce a native token to the Protocol if the Protocol could not function effectively without one.
Driving Sustainable Protocol Value
To connect the value of any native token directly to the value of the Protocol, enabling the equitable sharing of protocol value among all network participants.
To sustainably incentivize usage of the Protocol for all network participants such that inflationary rewards are not a significant motivator for participation.
Connecting the Protocol and its Users
To serve as an effective numeraire for any network the Protocol supports by limiting token volatility and helping maintain consistent liquidity.
To provide an adaptive value-out mechanism for network participants that ensures easy access to a participant’s network value share while protecting other participants from unnecessary volatility.
Functions
$FORTE serves multiple functions within the Protocol ecosystem. At its most basic level, $FORTE provides a marker of total protocol value and consolidates liquidity across L1, L2 and L3 chains. In addition to these technical functions, $FORTE is the network currency for Protocol access, rewards, and governance, as well as Liquidity Engine transaction fees.
Access
Developers pay in $FORTE to access services within the Protocol ecosystem that help launch and operate token economies, including but not limited to:
Rules Engine advanced features, including the ZK Privacy Solution, custom rules and oracles, complex rule deployment, and custom features developed by other users;
Liquidity Engine advanced features, including custom liquidity pools and liquidity consolidation across L1, L2, and L3 blockchains;
Integrated value rails through Forte Pay.
Rewards
$FORTE serves to support consistent value growth for the Protocol by incentivizing contributions to network value. Developers and other ecosystem participants may receive rewards [for early adoption and ]for value-added contributions such as providing liquidity, creating custom rule templates, sharing data, and creating educational content. The Protocol will also establish grant funding for builders and ecosystem participants who are developing critical infrastructure that benefits the Forte Protocol ecosystem, such as specialized data oracles.
Governance
Holders of $FORTE can participate in voting and other decision-making activities to guide the Protocol's growth and evolution, including protocol upgrades and grant funding. Staked tokens are locked for added governance rights, reducing circulating supply while increasing long-term alignment.
Medium of Exchange
The $FORTE token serves as the medium of exchange for all Liquidity Engine transaction fees. Transaction fees associated with use of the Liquidity Engine must be paid in $FORTE.
Cross-chain Liquidity
$FORTE collateralizes any tokenized assets in the network, including fungible and non-fungible assets. Through the Liquidity Engine, $FORTE serves to source liquidity across L1 and L2 chains. By enabling cross-application liquidity access, developers using the Protocol and $FORTE can focus on designing token applications and utility rather than market structure. Developers will receive rewards for contributing liquidity through the Liquidity Engine.
$FORTE Network Effects Flywheel
$FORTE underpins 3 reinforcing loops that drive transactional demand and recurring volume:
Rules Engine Loop: Developers use $FORTE to create custom rule templates, such as whitelists or transfer conditions for their tokens. As more templates are created, used, and paid for in $FORTE, the marketplace expands and the Rules Engine evolves into a high-volume service layer for token-level controls.
Liquidity Engine Loop: Developers launch dapp-specific, capital-efficient liquidity pools using $FORTE. Users contribute liquidity by engaging with the project, while $FORTE rewards accrue to the developer. The more trading activity these pools generate, the more $FORTE is earned, spent, and re-deployed, driving sustained token volume across the ecosystem.
Forte Pay Loop: Forte Pay enables seamless on- and off-ramps, conversion services, and embedded KYC. Developers use $FORTE to pay for payment processing and to run off-chain KYC checks through Forte’s regulated partners. These verified wallets are then referenced by the Rules Engine, allowing compliant transactions across dapps.
Across these products, demand for $FORTE scales with Protocol usage. Since access rights, rewards, and governance participation are transacted in $FORTE, there is constant value transfer via the token. This creates organic trading volume as developers, contributors, LPs, and users enter and exit positions based on protocol usage, governance cycles, or access to ecosystem services.
$FORTE is an ERC-20 token available on Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain, and other EVM-compatible chains. It supports the stability of digital asset economies that utilize the Liquidity Engine, provides access to certain Protocol features offered by the Forte Foundation and its ecosystem partners, and serves as the governance mechanism for the Protocol.
Design Principles
The design of the Protocol and $FORTE has been guided by a clear set of principles. These principles aim to ensure that the Protocol serves as an efficient solution to the problem it was built to address, driving sustainable Protocol value and connecting Protocol users to that value.
These principles are:
A Clear and Efficient Solution
To create a Protocol that directly addresses the defined problem as efficiently and sustainably as possible.
To only introduce a native token to the Protocol if the Protocol could not function effectively without one.
Driving Sustainable Protocol Value
To connect the value of any native token directly to the value of the Protocol, enabling the equitable sharing of protocol value among all network participants.
To sustainably incentivize usage of the Protocol for all network participants such that inflationary rewards are not a significant motivator for participation.
Connecting the Protocol and its Users
To serve as an effective numeraire for any network the Protocol supports by limiting token volatility and helping maintain consistent liquidity.
To provide an adaptive value-out mechanism for network participants that ensures easy access to a participant’s network value share while protecting other participants from unnecessary volatility.
Functions
$FORTE serves multiple functions within the Protocol ecosystem. At its most basic level, $FORTE provides a marker of total protocol value and consolidates liquidity across L1, L2 and L3 chains. In addition to these technical functions, $FORTE is the network currency for Protocol access, rewards, and governance, as well as Liquidity Engine transaction fees.
Access
Developers pay in $FORTE to access services within the Protocol ecosystem that help launch and operate token economies, including but not limited to:
Rules Engine advanced features, including the ZK Privacy Solution, custom rules and oracles, complex rule deployment, and custom features developed by other users;
Liquidity Engine advanced features, including custom liquidity pools and liquidity consolidation across L1, L2, and L3 blockchains;
Integrated value rails through Forte Pay.
Rewards
$FORTE serves to support consistent value growth for the Protocol by incentivizing contributions to network value. Developers and other ecosystem participants may receive rewards [for early adoption and ]for value-added contributions such as providing liquidity, creating custom rule templates, sharing data, and creating educational content. The Protocol will also establish grant funding for builders and ecosystem participants who are developing critical infrastructure that benefits the Forte Protocol ecosystem, such as specialized data oracles.
Governance
Holders of $FORTE can participate in voting and other decision-making activities to guide the Protocol's growth and evolution, including protocol upgrades and grant funding. Staked tokens are locked for added governance rights, reducing circulating supply while increasing long-term alignment.
Medium of Exchange
The $FORTE token serves as the medium of exchange for all Liquidity Engine transaction fees. Transaction fees associated with use of the Liquidity Engine must be paid in $FORTE.
Cross-chain Liquidity
$FORTE collateralizes any tokenized assets in the network, including fungible and non-fungible assets. Through the Liquidity Engine, $FORTE serves to source liquidity across L1 and L2 chains. By enabling cross-application liquidity access, developers using the Protocol and $FORTE can focus on designing token applications and utility rather than market structure. Developers will receive rewards for contributing liquidity through the Liquidity Engine.
$FORTE Tokenomics
The total supply of $FORTE will be 10,000,000,000.