Joining terms — a plain-language summary

This page is a summary, not the terms. The joining terms themselves are being prepared for legal review and are not published yet. Nothing on this page is a contract, an offer, or a promise; it describes the shape of the terms as designed and ruled, so the price and the rules of every later step are known before the first step is taken.

Joining Twin means standing up a coin, a program, or a blockchain of your own on the family — on attestation terms: you show what you are, pass the published checks, accept the terms, and then you belong. This summary states, in plain words, what those terms say.

The door is not open yet. Public joining opens only after the house's legal review of the joining design is complete. When it opens, families and small businesses are the first cohort; institutions and exchanges are waitlisted — on the same terms, behind them in the queue. A waitlist is a queue, not a barred class.

On this page: One door, the same terms · How joining works · Your keys stay yours · Fees · Anchoring, in honest words · If things go wrong · Trading is not part of joining

This summary was last reviewed on November 6, 2026. It is a summary in plain language, not the terms themselves.

One door, the same terms for everyone

Twin is open on the same terms to everyone: giant corporations and individual miners and builders, people, small businesses and families alike. The checks are automated and identical for every joiner — the same published criteria, applied the same way, with no editor deciding whose chain they like. Joining is an attestation, not an application.

How joining works

Browse free. Looking needs no account and no identity check.
Create and test. With an account and a light identity check, you can create and test for as long as you like — nothing public.
Publish. At publishing, the full gate runs: identity verification and sanctions screening, and clickwrap acceptance of the joining terms — the exact version you accepted stands as a matter of record against your chain, so the terms you agreed to can never be quietly changed afterwards — and the automated standards gate.
The standards gate holds the chain to what it declares: in the first version, chains are created from the family's templates; a chain's supply is fixed exactly as declared, with no hidden minting, no hidden pause, and no transfer taxes; and its name and symbols collide with no existing record and imitate none. Human review exists only at the institution tier.

The record this creates — and the separate verified badge — are set out on the attestation page.

Your keys stay yours

Twin is fully non-custodial. Twin never holds your keys or your funds, and it does not keep your identity documents: they are checked at the door and not retained by Twin.

Your wallet is created inside the joining flow, not in a separate hunt for software. The flow teaches the seed phrase plainly — what it is, and that losing it loses the chain — and publishing does not unlock until a test transfer has proven the wallet works: one unit of each family coin sent to its member.

Lost keys mean a lost chain. No one at Twin can restore them, and the terms say so in plain words, before publishing — not after a loss.

Fees

The platform is not free: the fees are what power it. Creating, publishing and hosting a chain and anchoring services carry service-layer fees, charged in US dollars or a US-dollar stablecoin; the core-chain transaction fee burns 100%. The only fee-free things are donations and the Citizens Wealth Organization. Every figure stands on the fees page — published as proposed, labelled proposed, until it is ruled.

Anchoring, in honest words

A hosted chain writes checkpoints of its state into the Hub. That gives the chain tamper-evidence (a later rewrite of its history would show), ordering proof, and a public heartbeat. Anchoring does not give a chain the Hub's security, and Twin will never describe it as doing so. Checkpoints, once anchored, are never removed — including after a severance.

If things go wrong

Severance is de-listing and de-anchoring only. If a chain breaks the terms, Twin can remove it from its registry, wallet and explorer surfaces and stop anchoring it. There is no pause button and no kill switch over anyone's chain: a severed chain keeps existing for anyone who runs its nodes — Twin disowns it; Twin cannot delete it.

Your export window is guaranteed. Before a severance for cause takes effect, you get notice, and a window — 30 days at minimum in the first version, never shortened after the fact — to export your full chain data. Your data and your keys are never deleted by Twin. One exception stands inside the rule: for sanctions or illegality, de-anchoring is immediate and the notice comes after — the export window still stands.

Non-payment follows a ladder — reminder, grace period, suspension, closure — with export available at every step.

Trading is not part of joining

Twin is not an exchange, runs no marketplace, and takes no percentage of coin trades. Joining buys and sells nothing: the coins are not for sale, they carry no market price, and nothing in the joining terms is an offer of any coin.

This summary reflects the joining terms as designed and settled by the house; the terms text itself is in legal review. When the terms themselves are published, this page will link them and say so.