How BaseForge works
The fee flywheel, token standards, US-stock cashback, and every on-chain contract — the public facts behind the protocol.
The flywheel
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Launch a token
Deploy a classic ERC-20 or a Base-native B20 token together with its Uniswap v4 ETH pool in a single transaction. The pool is seeded automatically and its liquidity is locked forever — the factory exposes no removeLiquidity path.
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Every trade pays 2.5%
Each buy or sell routes a flat 2.5% fee, collected in native ETH by the PadFeeHook on the pool. The traded token itself is never taken or sold to fund the fee.
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The fee splits on-chain
A keeper reads the collected fees and splits them four ways every cycle: US-stock cashback, a buyback of the traded token, a FORGE buyback (for non-official tokens), and a development share. See the split table below.
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Stock cashback is distributed
The cashback portion buys a rotating basket of Coinbase's tokenized US stocks directly on Base (via Aerodrome Slipstream, with an aggregator failover path) and distributes them to the token's holders by an on-chain balance snapshot each cycle — same chain, same transaction sequence, no bridging, no claiming, no staking.
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Buybacks compound
The buyback portion buys the traded token back into the ecosystem treasury. Every non-official token additionally buys the official token, FORGE, into the treasury — so all volume across the platform compounds into FORGE.
The 2.5% fee split
Every trade routes a flat 2.5% in native ETH. How that 2.5% is split depends on whether the token is the official token (FORGE) or any other launched token.
| Leg | FORGE (official) | Any other token |
|---|---|---|
| US-stock cashback | 1% → FORGE holders | 0.5% → the token's own holders |
| Token buyback | 1% → treasury | 1% → treasury |
| FORGE buyback | — | 0.5% → treasury |
| Development | 0.5% → team | 0.5% → team |
Why the fee is collected in ETH
No sell pressure on the token
The hook takes native ETH, never the traded token. Stock purchases are funded from collected ETH — the protocol never sells your token to buy stocks.
A clean execution path
ETH routes straight into the stock-purchase flow — no extra token→ETH conversions, no added slippage from unwinding a protocol token.
Locked liquidity
The factory has no removeLiquidity path. Once a pool is seeded, its liquidity is permanent — there is no rug lever, by construction.
Token standards: ERC-20 & B20
ERC-20
The classic standard — our LaunchToken, with an on-chain enumerable holder set and a creator() owner. Runs the full 2.5% economics.
B20 Base-native
Base's own token standard (a node-native precompile, an ERC-20 superset) introduced in the Beryl upgrade. Same 2.5% economics; FORGE itself is a B20.
You choose the standard when you launch. Both are fully tradeable, both earn US-stock cashback, both feed the buyback flywheel.
The official token — FORGE
FORGE is the home asset of the BaseForge flywheel. Hold FORGE to earn tokenized US-stock cashback, backed by a platform-wide buyback: every other token buys FORGE into the treasury, so all volume compounds into FORGE and shrinks its circulating float.
Supported stocks
The cashback basket the protocol is configured to buy — Coinbase's tokenized US stocks, purchased directly on Base (Aerodrome Slipstream, with an aggregator failover path) and then paid out to holders each cycle. One stock rotates per cycle, so a holder who stays through four cycles collects the full basket; the basket can expand as Coinbase lists more.
Distributions are tokenized stocks, not brokerage shares — no voting rights or dividends.
Contracts (Base mainnet)
Every core contract, verifiable on Basescan.
The stock-purchase and payout contracts (BasketBuyerBase, Disperse) live on Base — the same chain as everything else on this page — and both are deployed and live; the rows above link to them on Basescan. One caveat worth stating plainly: Disperse emits no events, so this website cannot list the payouts it makes to holders. What the distributions page shows are the protocol's stock purchases; to check what actually reached holders, open the Disperse address above on Basescan and read its token transfers.
Common questions
Where does the cashback arrive?
Tokenized US stocks are sent directly to your wallet address each cycle. It's fully on-chain — nothing to claim, nothing to stake. You just hold the token.
Do I need to hold the official token?
Hold FORGE to earn the FORGE cashback (1% of all FORGE trades → US stocks for FORGE holders). Any other token pays 0.5% of its trades as US-stock cashback to that token's own holders.
ERC-20 or B20 — what's the difference?
Both run the identical 2.5% economics. ERC-20 is our own LaunchToken (enumerable holders). B20 is Base's native token standard (a precompile, an ERC-20 superset) introduced in the Beryl upgrade. FORGE itself is a B20.
Can I buy with any token?
Yes. Pay with ETH directly, or with USDC / any supported token — the app routes it through the best aggregator (Relay / 0x) and delivers the token to you in one flow. Tokens on other chains are bridged automatically.
Is the liquidity safe?
The factory exposes no removeLiquidity path, so seeded pool liquidity cannot be pulled — by construction, there is no rug lever. Only the fixed 2.5% trade fee is ever taken.
What are the fees?
A flat 2.5% per trade, collected in native ETH. No launch fee for the protocol owner; a small fee applies to public launches. There are no hidden fees.
Informational only — not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Distributions are tokenized stocks, not brokerage shares, and carry no voting rights or dividends. Liquidity may be limited and prices can move materially. Trades include the flat 2.5% fee shown in every quote. BaseForge is the platform brand; token names shown in the app are chosen by each token's creator.