What is FCF

Free Code Fund, written fcf in prose and commands, is a DeFi protocol company that gives open-source maintainers the tools to capture the value their code produces, without changing what they do or how they do it.

FCF builds the infrastructure that lets open-source repositories become tokenized, tradable cashflow-generating assets in a permission-less environment.

What it enables

If you maintain an open-source project, FCF lets you:

1. Prove on-chain that you control your GitHub repository. This is the RIK protocol.
2. Register your repo to the public Registry.
3. Build on top of that identity. The entire FCF protocol stack will route funding, rewards, staking, and tradable repo shares to whoever holds the RIK.

If you are a trader or investor, FCF gives you access to an asset class that did not previously exist: serious open-source projects, priced and traded directly, with the on-chain identity guaranteeing which repository you are buying exposure to.

The category being built

FCF is building the first decentralized marketplace of open-source software.

The hard part is not the market, markets are easy to spin up. The hard part is making the asset trustworthy: making sure that "the token for repo foo/bar" actually corresponds to the real foo/bar, that the person collecting fees is actually the maintainer, that ownership survives renames and transfers, that nobody can squat on someone else's project.

That is what RIK solves. Without it, every step that comes after is built on sand.

Where we are today

Layer	Status
RIK protocol V0 (Base Sepolia)	Live
@freecodexyz/cli (fcf)	Published as alpha on npm
Registry public app	In active development, public beta soon
Registry indexer & API	In active development
$freecode token	Live (details)
Rewards / Staking	In active development
Open marketplace for repo shares	In active development

Continue

• RIK Protocol
• Mint Your RIK