A command center
Node, wallet, mining, swap, marketplace, payment: everything is controlled and observed from a single app, live. It's the Command Center.
- fair-launch · 100% Proof of Work · private by construction
A private currencyyou can actuallyrun yourself.
Bezant is a fair-launch, 100% Proof-of-Work, private-by-construction currency - designed so an ordinary user can install it, mine and pay in under five minutes, without giving up sovereignty or privacy. One installer, a guided flow, your keys on your device.
Open source · Apache 2.0 License · non-custodial · 0 presale · 0 dev tax
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01 - why
The Byzantine bezant lasted a thousand years. We are building its digital version.
Money should serve the people who use it. Today, most digital money runs through intermediaries that can freeze your funds, close your account, or go bankrupt with your money. Crypto alternatives have often turned into speculative casinos themselves, disconnected from any real use.
Bezant exists to offer a third path: a digital currency that truly belongs to those who use it, that can be exchanged directly between humans, and whose rules are known and written into the code - not decided by a board of directors.
Our name is no accident. The bezant - the gold coin of the Byzantine Empire - circulated for nearly a thousand years across three continents. Its stability came from its integrity, not from marketing. That is the model we seek to reproduce in the digital age.
02 - the app
One app. All of your Bezant, under your control.
Non-custodial, all local
Your keys, your signing, your node and your mining stay on your device. If our servers vanish tomorrow, the app keeps working exactly the same.
Your fleet, live
Observe and control your trusted instances - Node 1, 2, 3 - with live telemetry. Remote control stays gated until you enable it.
03 - the wallet
Your keys. Your money. No intermediary.
Bezant never holds your funds. No one can. Your private key stays on your device, encrypted locally. That is the fundamental difference between Bezant and a centralized exchange.
- Encrypted local storage (AES-256)
- Recovery via BIP-39 mnemonic phrase
- Fully auditable source code
- No telemetry, no tracking
$ bezant wallet new
> Generating new wallet...
> Mnemonic: marble lounge crisp ... (12 words)
> Address: bz1q4k7...8x2m
> Wallet saved to ~/.bezant/wallets/default.json (encrypted)What you see is what runs. The code is published.
04 - mining
Mining becomes something you can do at home again.
No need for a $50,000 farm. A recent computer, a stable connection, and the will to take part in the network. Bezant was designed so that money production stays distributed - not concentrated among a handful of industrial players.
Standard laptop
Light
Dedicated desktop
Sustained
Pro miner
Industrial
Consumer hardware is enough to take part. The actual yield depends on the network parameters at launch and is not defined yet - no figure is promised.
What is mining?
Mining means providing computing power to a network that needs it to operate. In exchange for this service, the protocol rewards the miner in newly issued Bezants. This is how the currency is created - through the work of participants, not by decree.
How much does it earn?
It depends on hardware, electricity, and network difficulty. We publish an honest calculator that accounts for your real costs. Mining Bezant is not an investment - it is participation in an infrastructure.
How to get started?
Download the app, enable the miner module, check that your hardware is compatible. The network starts recognizing you within 24 hours.
05 - crypto exchange
Exchange your crypto, crypto to crypto.
Bezant includes a non-custodial crypto-to-crypto swap: you exchange BZT against other cryptocurrencies through temporary swap wallets, with no intermediary ever holding your funds, at 0% platform commission. Bezant never touches fiat: buying BZT with dollars is a regulated, licensed activity. That will come through a listing on an external exchange when possible, never through Bezant.
Non-custodial swap
Crypto to crypto, via temporary swap wallets. Bezant never holds your funds; only small network fees may apply.
0% platform commission
Currency exchange stays at 0% Bezant commission. The protocol is for discovery and settlement, never custody of your funds.
Fiat via an external exchange (coming)
Buying BZT with fiat requires licenses we do not have. In time this will happen through a listing on a third-party exchange, not through Bezant.
Honest by design: Bezant does not buy or sell BZT for fiat (a regulated activity that requires licenses). The swap is crypto to crypto, non-custodial. Fiat will come via an external exchange when it becomes possible.
06 - the ecosystem
A useful currency, not a speculation currency.
Bezant is intended to integrate with Freemen Pay, the payment module of the Freemen Solutions ecosystem. Concretely: pay a bill, receive a salary, settle with a merchant - in Bezants, with the same ease as a card. This integration is under development and will be announced publicly when it is ready. We do not promise a date.
07 - our commitments
Six commitments. Written into the code, not into the marketing.
- I.No presale.
- II.No founder allocation.
- III.Fully open code.
- IV.Predictable, public issuance.
- V.Non-custodial by design.
- VI.No yield promise.
We did not sell a single Bezant before the public launch. We did not reserve any allocation for the founders. We did not raise funds in exchange for tokens. Every existing Bezant was mined, by someone, under the same rules as yours. That is what “fair-launch” means to us.
08 - for developers
The code is the documentation. The documentation is the contract.
Bezant is entirely open source, under the Apache 2.0 License. All of the protocol, wallet, miner and API code is published on GitHub. You can audit, fork, contribute.
- GitHub (public soon)
- docs.bezant.org
- REST API + WebSocket
- TypeScript, Python, Rust SDK
import { BezantClient } from '@bezant/sdk'
const client = new BezantClient({ network: 'mainnet' })
const balance = await client.wallet.balance('bz1q4k7...8x2m')
const tx = await client.wallet.send({
to: 'bz1qz9p...4f1n',
amount: 12.5,
fee: 'normal',
})09 - honest questions
The questions usually avoided.
Why not Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is remarkable, but it has become expensive to use day to day, and its mining is largely industrialized. Bezant does not position itself against Bitcoin - it offers a complementary approach, optimized for everyday use and distributed mining.
Can Bezant fail?
Yes. Any project can fail. If usage does not follow, if the network loses its nodes, if the community dissolves - Bezant will have been an experiment that did not hold. We do not promise you success. We promise you an honest framework to try something useful.
What happens if I lose my key?
You lose access to your funds, permanently. That is the direct trade-off of sovereignty: no one can steal from you, but no one can restore your access either. We strongly insist on backing up the mnemonic phrase.
Is Bezant a financial security?
No. Bezant is not sold, is not backed by an asset, promises no yield, and is issued by no legal entity. It is a digital-currency protocol. Legal qualification varies by jurisdiction; consult an adviser in your country if needed.
Who controls the network?
No one. The rules of issuance, validation and governance are written into the code, which runs on the network's nodes. Any change must go through a public process, signaled in advance, and accepted by a majority of the nodes.
How can I trust this project?
By not trusting us. By reading the code. By verifying transactions. By taking part in the network. Trust in Bezant does not come from our word - it comes from the fact that you can verify everything yourself.