Governance Community vote — date to be announced

The Future of CPUNK & DNA Chain

Over the past two years, we've built far more than we originally imagined. CPUNK started as the world's first community-driven post-quantum meme token — but if you've been following us since day one, you already know the token was never the final goal. The goal was always much bigger.

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A direction vote — not a binding migration vote. Nothing changes today.

The Belief

Privacy is a human right

We believe privacy is a human right, not a privilege. Everyone deserves the ability to communicate privately, own their digital identity, and control their own data — regardless of where they live or who they are.

Unfortunately, today's internet wasn't built with those principles in mind. Most online communication depends on centralized services and cryptography that won't remain secure forever in a post-quantum world.

That belief led us to build DNA — Decentralized Network Applications. DNA isn't just another blockchain project. It's an ecosystem focused on post-quantum communication, self-sovereign identity, zero-knowledge privacy, and infrastructure owned by its users — not corporations.

The Foundation

Why we started building DNA Chain

As development continued, we realized we were no longer building just applications. We were building infrastructure.

Building that infrastructure on top of another Layer-1 would always require compromises — in architecture, security assumptions, performance, upgrades, and long-term independence. The security incidents we've seen across the ecosystem over the past year only reinforced that belief. Every blockchain faces challenges, but for something as important as privacy infrastructure, the foundation should be technology whose architecture, security model, and roadmap we fully control ourselves.

That's why we started building DNA Chain: a post-quantum chain that works like an operating system — the network, transport, storage and consensus substrate that DNA applications run on — designed from the ground up with post-quantum cryptography and zero-knowledge technology at its core.

Today, DNA Chain is already running as a development network — you can watch it in real time at scan.cpunk.io, though it is not open for public use yet. Zero-knowledge privacy is being integrated now, and the network will be reset as those features land. Mainnet is still several months away, so nothing changes today.

That brings us to an important question…

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The Question

One ecosystem, or two?

Once DNA Chain reaches mainnet, there are two credible paths forward. Neither option is objectively better — both have advantages, both have trade-offs. That's why we don't want to make this decision ourselves.

Option 1

One Ecosystem

Once DNA Chain reaches mainnet, CPUNK migrates from Cellframe and becomes the native coin of DNA Chain. Instead of maintaining two separate ecosystems, everything comes together under a single network and economy.

CPUNK would power network transaction fees, validator staking and network security, governance, DNA Identity, DNA Messenger, and future applications built on DNA.

Advantages

One unified community
One native asset
Every new application strengthens the same ecosystem
Network adoption directly benefits CPUNK
One clear roadmap, development focused on a single platform

Nothing is predetermined. CPUNK's zero-inflation policy on Cellframe remains untouched today. If this path is chosen, migration would only happen after mainnet — and only after the community receives a complete proposal covering the full economic model (including validator rewards and any emission schedule), migration mechanics, validator economics, timelines, and technical details.

Option 2

Two Independent Ecosystems

CPUNK continues on Cellframe exactly as it does today. No migration takes place. Existing liquidity, wallets, and infrastructure remain unchanged.

DNA Chain launches with its own native coin, validators, tokenomics, and ecosystem. The two projects continue independently while collaborating where it makes sense.

Advantages

No migration required
Existing liquidity remains untouched
CPUNK keeps its identity within the Cellframe ecosystem
DNA Chain can evolve independently
Community members can participate in one ecosystem or both

Continuity by default. This path changes nothing for existing CPUNK holders — the two networks simply grow side by side.

The governance vote date will be announced. This is a direction vote about the long-term future of our ecosystem — not yet a binding migration vote. Whatever the outcome, nothing changes before mainnet, and any migration would require its own complete proposal and community approval.

We'd love to hear your thoughts

This decision belongs to the community. Join the conversation, ask questions, and make your voice heard before the vote opens.

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