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The Signal messenger and protocol.
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The Wikipedia article and the quote don't mention it being forked from anything. And the word has a strict code definition so if it was, it wouldn't be hard to prove...
Based on and fork can be used interchangeably in English, this is what the wiki article clearly says.
If you want the full chain of pedantry: They forked the project, then refactored it into rust, then changed the protocol to include proof of stake based on steller.
According to who and where? You just chronologically ordered things backwards from the Wikipedia article!