Our mission: a coin for the 99%, not the 1%
New money reaches the people who already have the most, first. We think it should reach everyone, equally. b.even is a currency with no owner, where every person gets the same share each month and coins that pile up flow back to all of us.
Your monthly income
Every month, the same share for every person.
a month
Every person receives the same, every month, for decades. There is no halving: someone who joins in year ten gets what the first people got. No one gets more for being early, rich or connected. Above about 380,000 people, the monthly budget, 1% of the coins not yet issued, is split equally instead.
- + your equal slice of the pot: 70% of the whale brake and of what apps pay, 20% of swap fees, and every donation
- + donations made to the people of your country, shared among them
- + part of the revenue if you lock coins, and 1% of every share you relay for others
- 0 mining rigs: opening the app on your phone is all it takes
Where the income comes from
Coins alone don’t make an income. What matters is how much money comes in each month from buyers, donors and apps, and b.even passes it on to everyone equally.
€100M has to come in every month, and the network would be worth about €19B.
Estimates from our 20-year market model after ten years, with average behaviour. In cash, if everyone sold at once, it would be less.
What 4,000 simulated futures say
Monthly income per person in euros, monthly share plus the pot, if the auction sets 1 BEVN at about €1, with donations and app fees. The bar runs from the 10% worst to the 10% best futures; the dot is the middle one. It holds steady for 20 years instead of shrinking.
Promises written into the code
Ever, and no more
Never more than 21 million BEVN. Burned coins never come back.
Same for everyone
Every person gets exactly the same share. No one can get more.
For decades
At most 1% of the coins still to come is shared out each month, so they last for generations.
Keys to stop it
No one can freeze your coins, change the rules or pull the pool.
What we hope for, but can’t promise
- A price that holds, which depends on people outside buying BEVN.
- Apps and charities paying in, so the pot grows for everyone.
- Millions of people, so the share reaches those who need it most.
How it works
What you do, and how often
Tap your passport on your phone
A passport or a European ID card with a chip. The chip is read on your device. A zero-knowledge proof tells the contract you are a unique adult and which country issued the document. Your name, number and photo stay on the phone. No selfie.
Check your balance, and you’re checked in
Open the app whenever you like, as you would your bank’s. Unlocking it with your fingerprint or Face ID confirms it’s still you and collects your share for the month: 0.5 BEVN, plus an equal cut of the common pot. Once a month is enough. A relayer sends it for you, pays the network fee and keeps 1% of your share. Six months without opening it and the account stops earning.
Keep, spend, lock or borrow
Lock coins for 1 to 6 months to earn part of the protocol’s revenue, with up to 2× weight. Need cash without selling? Borrow up to 30% of what you locked, at a capped 0.4% a month.
Show your passport again
It keeps each share tied to one living person. An account that looks unusual is asked sooner. If it doesn’t answer, it stops earning. Its balance is never frozen.
Money flow
Where the money flows
Rewards come from real revenue, not from printing. Like water through a landscape, it rises, falls back and keeps moving.
- in
Revenue rises from 0.15% of every swap, the whale brake, fees apps pay to check that a user is human, and donations.
- ½
Of swap fees is burned. Gone for good, so the total supply slowly shrinks. Nothing taken by the whale brake is burned.
- 70%
Rains on everyone who checked in that month, in equal parts: 70% of the whale brake and of app fees, 20% of swap fees, plus donations, late-loan penalties and abandoned accounts.
- 30%
Flows to lockers, the people who keep coins locked for 1 to 6 months.
Stress test
We tried to break it.
We ran 400 simulated people against the real contract for four years. In month six, one whale buys half the pool and simply holds. It starts with 20% of every coin in circulation.
It doesn’t sell, and it still shrinks: the brake takes from the pile, and every month new coins go to everyone else.
A launch whale with 10% of all coins that will ever exist, after 10 years
Share held by the richest 1%, after 10 years
The whale brake
Hold as much as you like. Hoarding costs.
The brake is measured against the average balance per person, which the contract works out on its own. It works in brackets, like income tax. Most people will never pay it.
What it collects goes back to people: 70% to everyone equally and 30% to people who lock coins. None of it is burned.
On the part between 16× and 48× you pay 5% a year. The first 16× is free.
Your wallet
Only you own your coins.
No exchange, company or foundation owns b.even, and none holds coins on your behalf. The contract has no owner. A coin belongs to the person whose wallet holds it, and that wallet lives on your phone.
- No exchange is an owner, or ever will be. A wallet that pools other people’s coins pays the 40% brake.
- You hold your own key, as a passkey on your phone.
- Lost your phone? Recover with your passport, or name an heir.
The price will come straight from the b.even pool once it opens after the auction, converted from CELO at the market rate.
- Balance
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- Value
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- Locked
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- Borrowed
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- To receive
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- Whale brake
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Care built in
Nothing gets stuck
Lost Bitcoin is lost for good. Here, coins always find their way back to people.
Heirs
Name an heir in the app. After 12 months without a sign of life and 3 months of notice, they can claim everything. With no heir, it all returns to the pot after 3 years.
The equal pot
Part of the revenue, late-loan penalties and coins from abandoned accounts are shared equally among everyone who checked in that month.
Donations
Charities, governments or towns can donate to everyone, or only to the people of one country. The gift buys BEVN and splits it among unique, real people, with no admin cost and every step public.
Loans in the same coin
Lenders earn interest, borrowers keep their locked coins, and the rate is capped. A late payment is covered from the borrower’s lock and a 10% penalty goes to the pot.
In numbers
b.even vs Bitcoin
The same scarcity, without the concentration and the fees.
On top of the cap, half of all swap fees is burned, so the number of b.even coins in existence can only fall below 21 million. Lost Bitcoin stays lost; here, a lost wallet goes to an heir or back to everyone.
Fee to send $10
Bitcoin’s average fee was about $0.40 in 2026. A transfer on Celo costs less than a tenth of a cent, and the relayer that sends your monthly check-in keeps 1% of the share.
New coins going to people
Every new bitcoin goes to miners. 19 of b.even’s 21 million coins go to verified people, equally. The rest is the launch auction and the pool.
Owned by the biggest holders
Bitcoin’s ten largest holders control over a quarter of all coins. In our 10-year model, a launch whale with 10% of all b.even coins ends with 1.6%.
A person vs a whale
On Bitcoin, nothing stops one holder from owning more and more. Here, holding up to 16× the average person is free; above that, 5% a year, and 40% above 48×.
Electricity
Bitcoin mining uses about as much electricity as a mid-sized country. b.even runs on Celo, a proof-of-stake network with no mining.
Who can change the rules
b.even’s rules are fixed in the contract. The only thing a vote of people can change is the identity provider.
Sources: average Bitcoin fee from Blockchain.com via YCharts and The Block (2026); largest holders from Arkham (May 2026); electricity from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (2025). b.even figures come from the contract and our simulations.
How it compares with the rest
| b.even | Bitcoin | Typical token | “Guaranteed yield” coins | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New coins go to | Each person, equally | Whoever has the most machines | Team and investors first | Whoever deposits most |
| Rules can be changed by | No one | Network consensus | Often an admin key | The company |
| Concentration | Braked above 16× the average | No limit | No limit | No limit |
| Liquidity | Permanent, cannot be pulled | On exchanges | Can be pulled | Up to the company |
| Rewards come from | Real revenue | New coins and fees | Varies | New coins or new deposits |
| Lost coins | Go to an heir or back to the pot | Stuck forever | Stuck forever | Kept by the company |
| Energy | A share of a low-power network | Proof of work | Depends on the chain | Depends on the chain |
Worst cases
Tested in 4,000 futures
We didn’t test the launch we hope for. We drew 4,000 futures from ranges based on real data, down to the worst we could find: airdrops where up to 90% of coins are sold at once, apps that keep only 10% of their people each month, and outside demand as low as 10 cents a person. Then we attacked the real contract with a whale, a state faking thousands of people, a total panic and half of the lockers borrowing the maximum.
- Never more than 21 million coins. Checked at the end of every simulated month and by fuzzing.
- Every loan stayed covered by its lock, even when no borrower repaid.
- Nothing got stuck. When everyone sold at once, every lock still ended and everyone could sell.
- Every CELO in the pool stayed backed, and no one could pull it out.
What can still go wrong
What decides the price most is demand from outside. The design limits the damage of selling. It doesn’t create buyers.
Written and tested, not yet audited. Mainnet waits for two independent audits.
Built in
- No owner, no pause button, no blacklist
- No exchange or company owns it, or holds your coins
- Liquidity no one can withdraw
- No price oracle to manipulate
- Pool paired with CELO, which no company can freeze
Before you get excited
- There is no guaranteed value. The price can fall to zero.
- It relies on one identity provider (Self) at launch. A vote can replace it.
- People without a chipped passport or ID card are left out.
- It won’t be on centralised exchanges.
- A bug can’t be patched, only migrated away from.
Take part
A fair share needs many hands
Join the pilot
100 to 300 people try the app for 2 to 3 months before anything goes on sale, and tell us what breaks.
Give through it
Charities, governments and towns can give to everyone, or only to the people of one country. It splits equally among real, unique people, with every step public.
Check our work
Read how it works and the numbers behind it. Two independent audits come before mainnet. Open the white paper →
Pass it on
Tell one person. Whoever joins gets exactly the same share as you, wherever they live.
Hear about it first
We write when the testnet opens, when pilot places open and before the auction. Nothing else, and no one else gets your address.
Roadmap
The way to launch
- Done
Design and contract
Full contract, tests, risk map, agent simulation, deploy script.
- Next
Testnet and app
Settle the last questions with Self, deploy on Celo Sepolia, ship a minimal app.
- Then
Closed pilot
100 to 300 people for 2 to 3 months.
- Then
Legal and audits
MiCA review, two independent audits, public bug bounty.
- Then
Launch
Two months of check-ins only, then the auction and the permanent pool.
Questions
Is this an investment?
No. b.even promises no gain and no yield. It is a currency designed to be fair, and its value can fall to zero.
Can I buy BEVN now?
No. BEVN is not on sale. The project goes through a testnet and a closed pilot first.
Who owns b.even?
No one. There is no company, foundation or exchange behind the contract, and no admin key. Each coin belongs only to the person whose wallet holds it.
Do I hand over my personal data?
No. Your passport is read on your phone. The contract only receives a mathematical proof that you are a unique adult, and which country issued the document.
Why won’t it be on Binance?
An exchange wallet holds coins for thousands of people, so it would pay 40% a year under the whale brake. You buy through the app and the contract’s own pool.
What if I lose my phone?
Your account uses a passkey synced to your Apple or Google account, and your identity can be recovered with your passport. You can also name an heir.
Why “b.even”?
Say it out loud: be even.
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