The Orange Project 🍊 Manifesto

We believe there is an opportunity to design a new blockchain layer that places community at its center.

We believe the BONK community has been the major driver of the BONK success. We believe it is this same community that brought us to this voting forum of the DAO today.

We do not seek to theorize about another application, about a token, or about an NFT collection. Instead, we want to write this foundational proposal to ask for funding to develop a new blockchain designed to be performant, secure, and accessible, while remaining compatible with the existing Solana ecosystem and, where technically feasible, interoperable with EVM-based environments.

👉 Meet The Orange Project 🍊

What is The Orange Project 🍊?

Today BONK is just another token. It doesn't have a direct, nativerole in securing the network (like staking for consensus) or funding public goods through transaction fees. Its utility is often limited to being a medium of exchange or governance for its own DAO, in many cases it is just a meme, and like all memes, it is temporary. We want to change that.

The objective of The Orange Project 🍊 is to research, explore and build a blockchain with architectural optimizations that increase throughput, TPS and reduce transaction costs without compromising security or decentralization of blockchain.

The chain would be engineered to support use cases that are currently constrained by performance and cost limitations — such as high-frequency trading on decentralized platforms and consumer-scale applications requiring predictable, low-fee execution. This new architecture would set the stage for a new wave of products with one common denominator at its center: BONK.

To pursue this project, we are seeking a grant of 4.48T BONK tokens.

The following budget breakdown is based on preliminary research and current market benchmarks. All figures and percentages are indicative estimates and are subject to change based on operational learnings, market conditions, and community feedback to ensure optimal resource utilization.

These resources would support the following areas:

1. Establishing the Foundation & Treasury Stewardship: up to 10%

This is the foundational first step, to be initiated immediately upon a successful vote. This portion will cover:

• 1.1 Legal Structuring: Costs associated with establishing a purpose-driven foundation in an established jurisdiction to serve as a neutral steward for the ecosystem.
• 1.2 Initial Operational Runway: Funding for core team, administrative overhead, legal counsel, and accounting services for the first 18-24 months.
• 1.3 Multi-Sig Treasury Setup: The secure creation and management of a multi-signature wallet, with a diverse and credible set of signers, to hold and manage the grant funds transparently.

2. Research and Development: up to 25%

Hiring, investigating and implementing an innovative consensus mechanism, purpose-built and tailored to the network's performance and security requirements, with a focus on improving existing limitations observed in current L1 and L2 networks. This would account for approximately 25% of the budget.

3. Validator Network Formation & Security: up to 20%

A decentralized and incentivized validator set is critical for network security and integrity. This budget may support:

• 3.1 Validator Incentive Program: Grants, bonuses, and subsidized costs to attract a geographically and politically diverse set of professional validators at launch.
• 3.2 Staking Derivatives & Tooling: Funding the development of core staking infrastructure, including user-friendly delegation interfaces and potential liquid staking solutions.
• 3.3 Security Bounties: Pre-emptive bug bounty programs to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in the network's staking and governance modules.

4. Developer Ecosystem Growth: up to 20%

To ensure a rich ecosystem of applications, strategic resources may be allocated to:

• 4.1 Grants & Bounties: A structured grant program for independent teams building core infrastructure, DeFi primitives, NFT platforms, and gaming applications.
• 4.2 Developer Education & Tools: Funding for comprehensive documentation, software development kits (SDKs), tutorials, and the creation of a best-in-class developer portal.
• 4.3 Hackathons & Events: Sponsoring virtual and in-person hackathons to foster innovation, identify top talent, and seed initial projects.

5. Structured Network Incentives (TVL & Yield): up to 15%

This is designed to bootstrap the network's economic activity and capital base through measured, growth-oriented programs, which may include supporting and/or providing the following:

• 5.1 Liquidity Mining Programs: Targeted incentives for users who provide liquidity to core decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and lending protocols.
• 5.2 Yield Supplementation: Temporary yield programs to attract early users and capital, carefully designed to avoid unsustainable inflation.
• 5.3 Strategic Partnerships: Co-incentivization with partner protocols of the deployment of major DeFi blue-chip protocols and applications onto the network.

6. Community Contributions & Momentum: up to 10%

Recognizing and rewarding the community is vital for organic growth. This may include:

• 6.1 Contributor Rewards: A retroactive funding program (like a "retroactive public goods funding round") to reward early community builders, content creators, translators, and moderators.
• 6.2 Community-Led Initiatives: Micro-grants for local meetups, educational content creation, and community-managed social channels.
• 6.3 Adoption Campaigns: Funding for grassroots marketing efforts, ambassador programs, and growth-oriented initiatives driven by the community.

This resource allocation framework is designed to be both comprehensive and adaptable. As the project evolves, the Foundationwill work closely with the community to re-evaluate priorities and reallocate funds as necessary, ensuring we remain agile and effective in building a foundational layer for the next generation of decentralized applications.

Expected Outcomes; Measuring Success

The success of The Orange Project 🍊 will be measured through several measurable key performance indicators (KPI), designed to track growth, adoption, and technical health, including but not limited to:

• Daily Active Wallets: The number of unique wallets interacting with the chain daily, indicating a growing and engaged user base.
• Daily Transaction Volume: The total number of transactions processed per day, reflecting the network's utility and activity level.
• Transaction Fee Revenue: Sustainable economic activity is measured by the total fees paid to the network and validators.
• Number of Deployed Smart Contracts: A direct measure of developer innovation and building activity on the chain.
• Cumulative Number of dApps: The growth in the portfolio of decentralized applications, spanning DeFi, NFTs, gaming, and social.
• Developer Grant Applications & Completions: Tracking the pipeline and successful deployment of projects funded through our ecosystem grants.

The Orange Project 🍊 is also an opportunity for the community to be at the core of a new and cutting edge blockchain grounded and aligned with the BONK identity and aspirations. We do not have an exact timeline but we commit to share and keep the community regularly updated through our website and other means.

(and btw this is a lot of text ... so if you wanna take a little break there you go 🐶 )

Conclusions

It is an ambitious path, and it involves uncertainty, iteration, and meaningful work. The BONK community has consistently demonstrated an ability to mobilize, to take bold steps, and to create outcomes that few would have expected.

Yet, if there is one force capable of transforming this vision into reality, it is the BONK community. You have consistently demonstrated an unparalleled ability to mobilize, to take bold leaps of faith, and to orchestrate outcomes that defy all conventional expectations.

Your history is not just one of success, but of alchemy, turning the improbable into the inevitable. The skeptics have seen this story before. They have doubted, and you have delivered. Now, we stand at the threshold of our most foundational project yet.

We don't want to be a passenger on someone else's ship, we want to be the engine and hull of our own vessel.

This is a declaration of Independence.

The Orange Project 🍊 will unleash the dog.

The Orange Project 🍊 Team