CGW token documentation
The canonical public description of the CGW token: what it does inside CoinGarden.World, how its supply is fixed and divided, and exactly what has and has not been deployed.
Current deployment status
- Solana mainnet-beta
- liveThe CGW mint, six vaults, both programs and the 3-of-5 multisig exist on mainnet-beta with a fixed supply and a revoked mint authority. Protocol configurations, Treasury and Environmental schedules and vault handovers are verified. Current balances and reward eligibility are reported on the Token Portal; deployment is not a sale or listing.
Deployment status on this page is read directly from the project’s chain manifest at build time, not written by hand. When a cluster is not deployed, its addresses are recorded as null rather than as a placeholder.
What this page is not
- This is not an offer to the public of a crypto-asset, and not an invitation or inducement to acquire one.
- This is not a request for admission to trading, and CoinGarden.World operates no exchange, trading venue or brokerage.
- CGW is not offered as an investment. Nothing here should be read as a statement or suggestion about the token’s value, present or future.
- CGW has no staking, yield, interest or passive-return mechanism. There is no mechanism by which holding CGW produces more CGW.
- This page is a technical description, not legal, financial or tax advice.
What CGW is
CGW is the utility token of the CoinGarden.World platform, issued on Solana as an SPL token. Its purpose is to account for contributions to a shared plant and garden data commons — verified observations, identifications, corrections and care history recorded by the people using the app.
The platform’s primary function is plant care. The token exists to recognise contribution to the data that makes plant care work, and it is deliberately secondary to it: the mobile application is useful without holding any CGW at all.
| Name | CoinGarden |
|---|---|
| Symbol | CGW |
| Network | Solana (SPL Token) |
| Decimals | 9 |
| Fixed maximum supply | 1,000,000,000 CGW |
The supply is fixed. The design requires mint authority to be permanently revoked during the genesis ceremony, after which no further CGW can ever be created. Freeze authority is never set, so no account’s tokens can be frozen.
Supply allocation
The fixed supply is divided into 6 allocations, each custodied by its own on-chain vault and released on its own published schedule.
| Allocation | Share | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem & contributor rewards | 45% | Rewards for verified, accepted contributions to the plant and garden data commons, plus ecosystem growth incentives. |
| Ecosystem treasury, development & grants | 20% | Long-term development funding, ecosystem grants, integrations, audits and operational runway. |
| Core team | 15% | Long-term compensation and retention for the people building CoinGarden.World. |
| Liquidity & ecosystem integrations | 10% | On-chain market liquidity for CGW, seeded and held by the treasury multisig, plus incentives for ecosystem integrations. |
| Environmental impact initiatives | 5% | Funding for verified environmental and biodiversity initiatives selected through the impact process. |
| Early community & launch distribution | 5% | Recognition for early CoinGarden users and contributors who built the product's first data and community. |
| Total | 100% |
These percentages are read from the project’s token specification package, which is the single source of truth for every CGW number and is covered by automated conservation tests. They are not transcribed into this page.
Custody and authority
Token authorities are designed to be held by a 3-of-5 Squads multisig, and program upgrade authority follows the same path. Security-critical parameters, program upgrade authority and user-data policy are explicitly outside the scope of token-holder governance.
Signer independence: none at present. All five signer keys are held by or accountable to the operating company’s sole manager. No independent external signer has been appointed. A 3-of-5 threshold whose signers answer to one person does not constrain that person, so the multisig should not be read as protection against unilateral action by the operator. This is stated plainly because the alternative — describing the threshold without describing who holds it — would give a materially misleading impression of custody.
Any governance introduced in the first version is non-binding signalling only. It is not a binding on-chain mechanism, locked or unvested allocations carry no signalling weight, and no mechanism exists that requires locking tokens in order to signal.
Superseded documentation
An older documentation site describes a GRDN token on a different technical architecture. That material is historical and superseded. It does not describe this project’s current token, chain, supply or design, and statements in it about token utility, exchange availability or rewards should not be relied upon.
The current token is CGW on Solana. Where the two conflict, this page and the project’s published specification are authoritative.