Questions

FAQ

Short, direct answers — including to the questions where the answer is simply no.

The short version. CGW does not exist, cannot be bought, has no price, has no address, and is not required to use CoinGarden.
Answers

Common questions

Can I buy CGW?

No. CGW does not exist. There is no token, no sale, no presale, no listing and no contract address. Anyone offering to sell you CGW is selling you something else.

When does it launch?

There is no launch date. The project is at stage 1–2 of nine, and stage 8 has not been authorised. It is entirely possible CGW is never launched at all — see the roadmap.

Do I need CGW to use CoinGarden?

No, and this is a hard design constraint rather than a current limitation. Identifying plants, recording care, setting reminders and managing gardens will never require a token, a wallet or a transaction.

Is there a price or a market cap?

No. Both would require the token to exist and trade. This site publishes no price, no market data and no valuation, and the simulator deliberately has no price axis.

What is the contract address?

There is none. No mint has been created on mainnet-beta, devnet or localnet. This site will never publish a placeholder or example address, because those get copied.

Why Solana, when the docs used to say Base?

Earlier project documentation described a Base-first EVM design with a Solidity contract. That direction has been superseded. The old work is retained as historical context and is not the CGW token. The reasoning for Solana is on the architecture page.

Are the tokenomics final?

They are decided for V1: the supply, the six-way split, the vesting terms and the emission schedule are approved for implementation, and this repository’s code is being built to match them exactly — they are not a draft under discussion. “Approved for implementation” is a different claim from “deployed”, though: nothing has been minted on any Solana cluster, and the numbers remain open to a formal review before genesis if a material problem surfaces before then.

How would I earn CGW?

Through verified contributions to the shared plant knowledge base — correcting a misidentification, adding reliable care data, documenting an under-covered species. Contributions are reviewed before anything is rewarded; submitting something is not the same as earning. See utility.

What stops people gaming the rewards?

A combination of off-chain verification, scarcity weighting, per-epoch and per-claimant caps, and deduplication. It is also the hardest unsolved problem in the design, and the research is candid that a much larger project spent six years on the same problem and eventually retired its mechanism.

Can the team unlock its tokens early?

Not under the approved design. The schedule is enforced on-chain with no acceleration instruction. One honest caveat: while the multisig retains upgrade authority over the vesting program, that is a policy backed by a multisig rather than a mathematical guarantee. It becomes a guarantee when the program is made immutable.

Can anyone freeze or seize my tokens?

Not under the approved design. Freeze authority is never set at mint creation, and there is no privileged transfer instruction. A capability that does not exist cannot be used against you.

Can more CGW be created later?

Not after genesis. Mint authority is revoked immediately after the fixed supply is minted, which makes the maximum enforceable by the network rather than promised in a document.

Does buying CGW help the environment?

No, and the project will not make that claim. A dedicated allocation funds verified environmental work, disbursed against evidence. That is a commitment about how a fund is spent, not a property of holding a token.

Is this a MiCA crypto-asset white paper?

No. The whitepaper is a technical and product design paper. It is not a crypto-asset white paper within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114, no offer is being made, and the regulatory position has open questions that require qualified legal counsel.

What are the biggest risks?

That the token never launches; that the rewards mechanism is gamed despite mitigations; that regulatory classification prevents an EU offer entirely; that the product never reaches the scale the model assumes. These and more are set out in the risk factors section of the whitepaper.

Has any of this been audited?

No. No external audit has started, because there is not yet a program stable enough to audit. An audit is a prerequisite for mainnet, and the full report will be published including findings that are not fixed.