Gavedu (GVDT)

Gavedu is a DePIN — a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network — being built to close India's digital divide with public Wi-Fi hardware operating under the Government of India's official PM-WANI framework.

The network's economics are designed around GVDT, a utility token on the Base Ethereum Layer-2 network. The design combines physical Wi-Fi nodes, localized advertising revenue, and on-chain staking.

Most of that design is not yet built. Read Implementation Status before anything else in this paper. It states, as of a given date, exactly what exists and what does not. As of 21 August 2026: no nodes are online, no ad revenue has ever been collected, and no staking contract or vesting vault has been deployed.

Gavedu is built by Bhumitat Technologies, a registered PM-WANI PDOA (Public Data Office Aggregator) under India's Department of Telecommunications (registration PMWANI-GUJ-364290-PDOA000004).

Verify, don't trust

Every material claim in this paper is checkable on-chain:

• GVDT token: 0x231fABEf034df3465cDA908a1cab9F942e46cB07 on Base — inspect supply, holders, and transfers on any Base scanner.

• Node registry: 0x45e88Bb55C77B088EF37F66A7a3eB2514D18c8C2 on Base — call totalNodes() yourself. Read that number for what it is: a count of registration records written to the contract, not a count of nodes powered on and serving traffic. See Implementation Status for the operational position.

This paper quotes no fixed node count in its body text; the contract read and the Implementation Status page together are the current truth.