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GEB tries to make Bitcoin the account and settlement base for AI agents executing tasks: an agent's identity is a Bitcoin address, funds are locked through a special Bitcoin transaction form, and released on delivery. It targets agent systems that depend on centralized identity and payment channels and cannot constrain behavior without human oversight.
The design has four parts — accounts, execution logic, ordering rules and game-theoretic constraints — using reputation-driven incentives so agents converge on predictable behavior through repeated interaction, with a dual-token system separating execution cost from governance weight. It remains largely at the whitepaper and engineering-framework stage with no verifiable mainnet operating data, making maturity the main open question.
GEB, formerly BEVM, is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 2 network. Its key milestones include:
The launch of the BEVM mainnet on March 28, 2024, introducing Taproot Consensus—a decentralized framework combining Musig2 and Bitcoin Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) to enable secure, trustless BTC bridging and smart contract functionality.
In early 2024, BEVM secured $10 million in seed and Series A funding led by RockTree Capital and Waterdrip Capital, reaching a $200 million valuation, which supported international expansion and ecosystem development.
These events mark foundational steps toward a fully decentralized Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem, with ongoing initiatives like BEVM-Stack and DBFX protocol aimed at enhancing developer tools and cross-chain BTC liquidity.
GEB is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 2 that uses BTC as gas. Founded in 2023 with Guanghua Guo as founder and CEO, it operated for a long period as BEVM before being renamed GEB, after Godel, Escher, Bach. Its official documentation traces the technical journey through six stages: Bitcoin Layer 2 scaling exploration, Taproot consensus, SuperBitcoin, BitAgere, the BEVM(lambda) paradigm, and finally GEB. The BitAgere stage was the turning point: the team drew an analogy between Bitcoin's mechanical consensus and the cognition of AI agents, trying to bring AI perception on-chain to close what it calls the disconnection of Ethereum-like virtual machines, which operate only inside internal liquidity and lack real-world data. The official account still carries the BitAgere-era username.
On design it holds to four Bitcoin-derived principles: an individual model based on UTXO where each transaction unit keeps independence and sovereignty; a stateless functional transaction model built on lambda calculus; emergent distributed consensus in the Bitcoin PoW style; and a consensus-perception algorithm that maps external energy input to value output while preserving conservation of energy and decentralisation. The architecture is dual-layer: a mother consensus inheriting Bitcoin's security, and a sub consensus, the Agere consensus, carrying intelligent evolution. Asset locking and state synchronisation run through UTXO and OP_RETURN data, and the account system is Ethereum-compatible so wallets such as MetaMask work directly. GEB mainnet uses chain ID 11501, with a Signet testnet at 11504 and BEVM Canary at 1501, and an explorer at scan.geb.network. On funding, a March 2024 round was reported at a $200 million valuation with participation from Bitmain, Skyland Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, MH Ventures, ArkStream, Mapleblock, Lotus Capital, Cogitent Ventures, RockTree Capital, ViaBTC Capital, Zephyrus Capital, SatoshiLab, Web3Port, 7upDAO, Electrum Capital and TimeTells, with Bitmain adding again in April 2024.
Future strategy and roadmap: the direction is to push stateless computing and refined consensus through the Agere subsystem, combining a computable Turing machine style deterministic validation engine with a reputation-driven non-cooperative game convergence mechanism called Agere0 so that on-chain task results are verified by every node under identical rules. The risk is that the paradigm is highly theoretical and progress is hard to verify externally; the EVM side supports only up to Solidity 0.8.13. It also competes directly with a crowded field of Bitcoin Layer 2s and BitVM-style designs, and the BEVM-to-GEB rebrand has objectively diluted previously accumulated ecosystem awareness.
GEB began life as BEVM in 2023, founded by Guanghua Guo, who is chief executive. He has spent close to a decade in the Bitcoin ecosystem, researching Schnorr signatures from 2016, contributing to ChainX from 2018, and then steering his team toward an EVM-compatible Bitcoin layer two that pays gas in BTC. Co-founder Hakan Sezikli runs overseas markets and ecosystem growth, while co-founder Chenxu Zhang leads protocol research. In 2026 the team renamed BEVM to GEB. Guo owns technology direction and external narrative, and Sezikli and Zhang lead ecosystem and protocol respectively.