The trophy wall
Every era gets a birth certificate. Some retire quietly, some take the crown — all of them are on the wall.
Reigning · Champion
Certificate of Forging · Era III
IronforgeXL-v3
The first full fine-tune to complete clean, start to bell.
Born2026-07-20 · Amethyst, 48GB 4090
Methodfull fine-tune · 4,000 steps
Trialtwo-lane tournament · 4k beat the 6k lane
Titledefended vs MinkForge-XL v1 · 8–8, incumbent holds
StatusCROWNED — the working checkpoint
Split · Decision
Certificate of Forging · Era IV
MinkForge-XL v1
The challenger. First era to carry the MinkForge name.
Born2026-07-21 · Amethyst, 48GB 4090
Methodcontinued pretrain · 4,000 steps · batch 12
Dataset14,956 images · 100% NL captions
Final loss~0.036
Trial64-matchup blind tourney · 8–8 vs champion
Verdictsplit competencies · sweeps hardware & jewelry
Retired
Certificate of Forging · Era II
IronforgeXL-v2
The first full fine-tune to ship. Clean and on-brand — just underdone.
Born2026-07-19 · pod fleet
Methodfull fine-tune · step-2000 keeper
Lessonundertrained — v3 doubled the steps
Statusretired, archived
Retired
Certificate of Forging · Era I
IronforgeXL-v1
The first continued-pretrain attempt — proof the foundry could train full models at all.
Born2026-07 · mid-campaign
Methodcontinued pretrain
Legacybase for the dagger adapter line
Statusretired, md5-archived at home
Retired
Certificate of Forging · Era 0
IronforgeXL-v0
The first merge — base metal folded with our shipped adapters into one ingot.
Born2026-07 · first week
Methodcheckpoint merge · base + adapter line
Legacyproved the pipeline end-to-end
Statusretired
The adapter rack
Before the full checkpoints, the forge shipped LoRA adapters — each one trained, A/B-judged, and promoted at weight 0.8.
daggers✔ shipped
swordstep 600 · ✔ shipped
farmstep 1400 · ✔ shipped
armorstep 600 · ✔ shipped
axestep 1400 · ✔ shipped
beastsstep 300 · ✔ shipped
jewelrystep 1400 · ⧗ awaiting promotion
the rack keeps growing — a 100-adapter board drives the queue, and the local forge trains around the clock