The ceremony of two Oaks choosing each other. A co-signed event. Each sovereign signs with their own key.
The event appears permanently on both chains. Neither chain is merged. Neither sovereign holds the other's keys.
Forge records the act of choosing, not the ongoing state of the union.
Forge is not a marriage product. Not a relationship platform. It is the cryptographic ceremony of two sovereigns, each holding their own keys, choosing to mark that act permanently on the timechain. No authority permitted it. No authority can revoke it.
Forge requires two Oaks. Both sovereigns are already operating their own chains, holding their own keys, before the ceremony begins. Forge does not create a new chain. It places a co-signed node into each existing chain simultaneously — a permanent, unalterable record of the moment two sovereigns chose each other.
The Forge node is co-signed: both sovereigns sign with their own keys, at the same moment, in the same room. Neither can sign for the other. Neither holds the other's key before, during, or after the ceremony. The dual signature is the proof. It requires no institution to verify it exists.
The Forge node is permanent from the moment of signing. The mathematics holds it independently of anyone's continued goodwill — including the company that built the infrastructure to make it possible.
The officiant. The registrar. The state. The record held in a registry somewhere. Accessible until the institution decides otherwise.
Two Cryptographic signing keys. Two signatures. One Bitcoin anchor. No authority permitted it. The record is held by the mathematics. Permanently.
Both Oak apps open. Both sovereigns in the same room. Both Cryptographic signing keys in hand. The pending Forge node is visible on both trees — placed there at enrollment, waiting for the moment both keys sign. The app changes register. This is not a transaction. It is a ceremony.
Both sovereigns confirm their intent. The ceremony does not proceed until both have done so. Neither can proceed without the other. Neither can sign for the other. This is not a UX constraint — it is the architecture's insistence that a co-signed act requires two sovereigns freely choosing it at the same moment.
Both touch their Cryptographic signing keys. The dual-signed event broadcasts to three independent Nostr relay tiers simultaneously. The Bitcoin anchor writes. The Forge node settles into both chains at the same moment — permanent, unalterable, requiring no institution to verify it exists.
The mark is on both chains. It will be there in two hundred years.The complete architecture — the open-source code, the sovereignty proofs, and the instructions for verifying any record on public permissionless infrastructure without involving The Sovereign Path — is documented at arisemutually.com.