Balancer governance is considering a MAXYZ-led official fork, titled "Fork and Rebirth," to preserve protocol continuity regardless of potential shutdown outcomes. The plan would migrate liquidity, team members, partners, users and relevant intellectual property to a new entity, which existing materials describe as focused on real-world assets, including tokenized stocks and on-chain index products. Existing pools and treasury operations would continue through the second quarter of 2027, providing time for migration. Approximately 6 million uncirculated BAL tokens are designated as pre-fork funding; existing materials valued them at about $690,000. If the fork conducts a post-fork token generation event, the Balancer treasury would receive 10% of the new token’s fully diluted valuation in advance. The forked entity would receive a perpetual, irrevocable and non-exclusive license to relevant Balancer intellectual property. A separate proposal seeks to halt protocol operations and distribute about $9 million in treasury assets to BAL holders. The fork proposal remains in discussion and may be revised before proceeding to a Snapshot vote.