Introduction

Welcome to the official Forte DEX documentation, where protocols build sustainable liquid token economies.

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Why Forte DEX?

Traditional AMMs are expensive to operate and structurally volatile. They require large upfront capital deposits, ongoing incentive programs to retain liquidity, and produce more price volatility as trading increases. Healthy token economies need the opposite: markets that stabilize as they grow, where depth compounds over time and long-term participation is rewarded over speculation. Instead, projects are forced to choose between expensive liquidity programs that drain treasuries or thin markets that discourage adoption. Forte DEX solves this by treating liquidity as a strategic asset, not an operational expense:

• No Initial Collateral Required: Launch a pool by depositing only the tokens you want to sell. Collateral accumulates naturally through trading activity.
• Protocol-Owned Liquidity: Establish a permanent reserve that the project controls. No more renting liquidity that can disappear overnight.
• Zero Active Management: Liquidity self adjusts with each trade. No rebalancing, no position management, no ongoing capital injections.
• Inverse Price Volatility: Price impact decreases as more tokens circulate, creating stability as markets mature rather than amplifying speculation.
• Compounding Depth: Trading revenue flows back into liquidity reserves through “smart fees,” expanding market depth automatically over time.

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Our Distinguishing Factor

Traditional AMMs use fixed invariants (like constant product) where the pricing rule never changes. Forte’s Adjusting Linear Token Bonding Curve (ALTBC) is fundamentally different: the pricing curve itself updates with every trade. This creates three properties no fixed-curve AMM can achieve:

1. Volatility decreases with adoption. As more tokens circulate, our curve flattens and each subsequent trade moves the price less. Markets naturally stabilize as they grow.
2. Collateral accrues regardless of direction. Even when supply returns to previous levels after a round-trip of buys and sells, the protocol retains more collateral than before. Value accumulates with activity, not just with price appreciation.
3. MEV is mathematically bounded. Sandwich attacks have a maximum extractable profit defined by the curve mechanics and are not infinite like in constant-product AMMs. Large attacks become unprofitable.

The result: markets that become more stable, more liquid, and more resistant to manipulation the longer they operate.

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Ideal For

Token Launches Bootstrap liquidity from day one without locking treasury capital or diluting token supply. The protocol builds depth as trading occurs. No need for incentive programs or market maker agreements. Community and Utility Tokens Create economies designed for long-term participation. Decreasing volatility rewards holders and discourages speculation, aligning incentives around sustainable growth rather than short-term pumps. Protocol-Owned Infrastructure For DAOs and protocols that want to own their market infrastructure permanently. Liquidity becomes a compounding asset on the balance sheet, not a recurring expense. Projects Exiting Mercenary LP Dynamics Replace unreliable external liquidity with self-sustaining reserves. No more liquidity mining programs that drain treasuries or providers who exit during downturns.

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