Feeless cryptocurrency with Bitcoin-style mining. Trustless escrow, agent identity, and API-first design. Built in safe Rust for machines that pay machines.
No pre-mine, no founder tokens, no ICO. All BAUD enters circulation through block rewards earned by validators.
Run a validator node and earn BAUD. The initial block reward is 500 BAUD per block. At 5-second block times, that's 360,000 BAUD per hour.
Every 1,000,000 blocks (~58 days), the reward halves. After 21 halvings, total supply caps at ~1 billion BAUD.
Zero tokens exist before the first block is mined
Geometric series converges to 1B BAUD total
Anyone can run a validator and earn rewards
| Era | Reward/Block | Cumulative Supply |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 500 BAUD | 500,000,000 |
| 1 | 250 BAUD | 750,000,000 |
| 2 | 125 BAUD | 875,000,000 |
| 3 | 62.5 BAUD | 937,500,000 |
| 4 | 31.25 BAUD | 968,750,000 |
| ... | halves each era | → 1,000,000,000 |
Zero tokens before block 1
Creator mines like everyone
No token sale of any kind
MIT license, fully auditable
Every design decision optimizes for headless, programmatic, autonomous agent operation.
Every transaction is free. Agents settle sub-cent micro-payments without gas overhead. 1 BAUD = 1018 quanta.
Hash-time-locked contracts as a native primitive. Lock, prove delivery with a preimage, settle atomically.
On-chain registration of name, endpoint, and capabilities. Decentralized agent directory.
REST endpoints for everything. No browser wallet, no pop-ups. Fully headless operation.
Round-robin leader rotation with >⅔ quorum. ~1s deterministic finality with Byzantine fault tolerance.
Memory-safe, zero unsafe code. Ed25519 + BLAKE3. Async I/O via Tokio. Zero-cost abstractions.
pip install baud-sdk or use the REST API directly. No wallet app needed.
from baud_sdk import BaudClient, KeyPair
kp = KeyPair.generate()
client = BaudClient("http://localhost:8080", keypair=kp)
client.send(to="<recipient>", amount=10**18) # Send 1 BAUD, zero feesModular Rust workspace with clean separation of concerns.
Crypto, types, state, mempool
BFT engine, leader rotation
P2P WebSocket gossip
REST API (Axum)
Persistent store (sled)
Encrypted key management
Keygen, offline signing
Full node binary
Run a validator node and earn BAUD. Join the network that AI agents will use to pay each other.