Whitepaper to Current Mainnet

The 2025 PIPE Token Whitepaper is an archived MiCA notification dated September 3, 2025. It is not the current mainnet operating guide. This page records the differences that matter for readers of this documentation set.

What the archived PDF described

The summary and crypto-asset functionality sections (including pages 11 and 48) describe a permissionless point-of-presence (PoP) network in which:

Customers access bandwidth and storage by converting PIPE into non-transferable Data Credits that are burned on use.
PoP operators stake or receive delegated tokens to become eligible for service provision and incentives.
Token holders can participate in on-chain governance of network upgrades and economic parameters.

Those statements belong to the dated publication. They are not current mainnet policy in this repository.

What this documentation set describes

Topic	Archived 2025 PDF	Current docs
Customer credits	Token converted to Data Credits	Prepaid storage credit purchased with USDC on Solana
Operator product	Permissionless PoP nodes	Firestarter nodes
Node software	PoP-era node guides and binaries	Invite-gated `lattice-node` source or binary, provided with the enrollment invite, by Pipe Network operations, and configured with `LATTICE_*` settings. This documentation set does not publish a clone URL
Node rewards	Participation incentives for PoPs	Individual nodes receive no rewards or payouts
Participation stake	Token stake or delegation for PoP eligibility	10,000 PIPE staked through LovePIPE per Firestarter node
Enrollment	Permissionless PoP participation	Invite-only; no public waitlist or self-serve form; operators may email hello@pipe.network to inquire
Delivery / routing products	Decentralized CDN / streaming framing	This documentation set covers Pipe Storage and Firestarter nodes only

Older PoP-era setup pages, environment names, and reward language are obsolete. Do not follow them for mainnet.

Where to read current policy

Tokenomics: no individual node rewards, LovePIPE staking, and optional treasury policy.
Tokenomics operations spec: parameter registry and implementation boundaries.
Pipe Storage and Storage API: customer access.
Mainnet Firestarter Nodes: operator enrollment and the lattice-node executable.

The PDF is preserved unchanged. A revised whitepaper has not been provided for this documentation update.

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