Introduction

Gavedu is an effort to close India's digital divide by turning public Wi-Fi into decentralized physical infrastructure. Built by Bhumitat Technologies on the Government of India's PM-WANI framework, the design puts physical hardware at the center of the network and settles its economics transparently on a public blockchain.

At the heart of the project is GVDT, a utility token on the Base Ethereum Layer-2 network. GVDT is designed to align three groups around one shared goal — expanding free public internet:

• Wi-Fi consumers get internet access by engaging with sponsored ads. (This is the only mechanic that has run to date.)

• PDOs (Public Data Offices) would host the physical hotspots and, once the programme is built, receive on-chain rewards conditioned on measured uptime. (Not built: no vesting vault and no uptime oracle have been deployed, and no reward has ever been released.)

• Investors would stake capital intended to fund new physical node deployments. (Not built: no staking contract exists and no stake has ever been accepted.)

Gavedu is a token on Base, not its own blockchain. The intent is that its case rests on verifiable physical PM-WANI Wi-Fi nodes. For the dated position on how many of those are actually operating, see Implementation Status.