diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
index 88ef21a..e3be18e 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
         # shipping a console that rejects every Quantus signature at run time.
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
 
-      - name: the patch is applied
+      - name: verify the signers-common patch
         # Cheap, and it is the one thing about this fork that a normal build
         # would not notice going missing. Without it every signing attempt dies
         # with `Unkown signer` — in the browser, after deploy, to a user.
diff --git a/src/pages/Network/Network.tsx b/src/pages/Network/Network.tsx
index a36ab21..ced317e 100644
--- a/src/pages/Network/Network.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/Network/Network.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import { CopyText } from "@/components/Copy"
 import {
-  Chopsticks,
-  Forklift,
   ForkMethodIcon,
   Spinner,
 } from "@/components/Icons"
@@ -28,7 +26,6 @@ import { RadioGroup, RadioGroupItem } from "@/components/ui/radio-group"
 import {
   AUTO_RPC_ENDPOINT,
   currentWsStatus$,
-  ForkMethod,
   LIGHT_CLIENT_ENDPOINT,
   Network,
   networkCategories,
@@ -85,10 +82,21 @@ const NetworkSwitchDialogContent: FC<{
   const [query, setQuery] = useState("")
   const [network, setNetwork] = useState(selectedChain.network)
   const [endpoint, setEndpoint] = useState(selectedChain.endpoint)
-  const [forkMethod, setForkMethod] = useState(selectedChain.forkMethod)
   const customUrl = normalizeWsUrl(query)
-  const canFork = endpoint !== LIGHT_CLIENT_ENDPOINT
-  const selectedForkMethod = canFork ? forkMethod : "none"
+  // Forking is not offered.
+  //
+  // Chopsticks is built on `@polkadot/types`, which cannot decode a Quantus
+  // block at all: it caps fixed arrays at 2048 bytes where ML-DSA signatures are
+  // 5261 and 7219, reads the extrinsic preamble byte as a version, and knows
+  // nothing of this chain's header layout. Forklift resolves its own unpatched
+  // copy of `@polkadot-api/substrate-bindings`, so it hits the very header bug
+  // this console patches around.
+  //
+  // Neither can fork a chain in this list, so the two buttons offered things
+  // that could only fail, and fail without saying why. `forkMethod` stays in
+  // SelectedChain — the hash params and chain.state still read it — but nothing
+  // in the UI can now set it to anything other than "none".
+  const selectedForkMethod = "none" as const
   const hasChanged =
     network.id !== selectedChain.network.id ||
     endpoint !== selectedChain.endpoint ||
@@ -100,9 +108,6 @@ const NetworkSwitchDialogContent: FC<{
   ) => {
     setNetwork(next)
     setEndpoint(nextEndpoint)
-    if (nextEndpoint === LIGHT_CLIENT_ENDPOINT) {
-      setForkMethod("none")
-    }
   }
 
   const selectCustomUrl = (url: string) => {
@@ -112,14 +117,8 @@ const NetworkSwitchDialogContent: FC<{
 
   const setConnection = (nextEndpoint: string) => {
     setEndpoint(nextEndpoint)
-    if (nextEndpoint === LIGHT_CLIENT_ENDPOINT) {
-      setForkMethod("none")
-    }
   }
 
-  const toggleForkMethod = (method: ForkMethod) => {
-    setForkMethod((current) => (current === method ? "none" : method))
-  }
 
   const confirm = () => {
     if (network.id === "custom") {
@@ -185,32 +184,7 @@ const NetworkSwitchDialogContent: FC<{
           />
         </div>
 
-        <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center justify-between gap-3 border-t pt-3">
-          {canFork ? (
-            <div className="flex min-w-0 items-center gap-3">
-              <div className="text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
-                Fork with
-              </div>
-              <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2">
-                <ForkMethodOption
-                  value="chopsticks"
-                  title="Chopsticks"
-                  selected={selectedForkMethod === "chopsticks"}
-                  icon={<Chopsticks size={18} />}
-                  onSelect={toggleForkMethod}
-                />
-                <ForkMethodOption
-                  value="forklift"
-                  title="Forklift"
-                  selected={selectedForkMethod === "forklift"}
-                  icon={<Forklift size={18} />}
-                  onSelect={toggleForkMethod}
-                />
-              </div>
-            </div>
-          ) : (
-            <div />
-          )}
+        <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center justify-end gap-3 border-t pt-3">
           <Button
             className="min-w-28"
             onClick={confirm}
@@ -227,26 +201,6 @@ const NetworkSwitchDialogContent: FC<{
   )
 }
 
-const ForkMethodOption: FC<{
-  value: Exclude<ForkMethod, "none">
-  title: string
-  selected: boolean
-  icon?: React.ReactNode
-  onSelect: (value: ForkMethod) => void
-}> = ({ value, title, selected, icon, onSelect }) => (
-  <button
-    type="button"
-    className={twMerge(
-      "flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-md border border-transparent px-2 py-1.5 text-sm",
-      selected && "border-polkadot bg-polkadot/5",
-    )}
-    aria-pressed={selected}
-    onClick={() => onSelect(value)}
-  >
-    {icon}
-    {title}
-  </button>
-)
 
 const NetworkList: FC<{
   query: string