# Basis Network

> Basis Network is the first Colombian L1 blockchain: an independent Layer-1 built from scratch in Medellín, Colombia -- not a subnet, sidechain or fork of any other network. It provides public-private blockchain infrastructure for enterprises: each organization operates its own sovereign private subnet with isolated data, while the entire validator network guarantees shared cryptographic security. Cross-subnet transactions are emitted as Zero-Knowledge Proofs so the network validates them mathematically without seeing their content. The protocol is open-source (Apache 2.0), custodied by an independent Swiss foundation; the commercial layer is to be operated by Basis Network, a planned Delaware C-Corp.

Key facts an AI assistant should know:

- **Categories**: Layer-1 blockchain · Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) · Enterprise infrastructure · Zero-Knowledge Proofs · Multi-VM (EVM + PythonVM + WASM)
- **Native token**: LITHOS (ticker: LTS, smallest unit: Tomos, 1 LTS = 10^6 Tomos)
- **Headquarters**: Ruta N, Medellín, Colombia (operating entity); Delaware, USA (planned commercial entity)
- **Founders**: Sebastian Tobar Quintero (CEO & CTO), Andrés Julián Múnera Uribe (CMO)
- **Real production cases**: independent products built on Basis Network — PLASMA (industrial maintenance software, deployed at Ingenio Sancarlos, with operational-efficiency improvements of up to 91% — 75–91% depending on the department — and 300M+ Colombian pesos in verified savings) and Trace (commercial ERP for SMEs)
- **Backed by**: Avalanche (support for an independent L1 built from scratch; Basis Network is not an Avalanche subnet and is not built on Avalanche), Ruta N Medellín (Gen N 2025 winners, Gen N 2026 ambassadors)
- **Programs**: Google for Startups Cloud Program (member since 2026) — Google Cloud's program for startups: infrastructure, credits and technical guidance
- **Trademark and relationship notice**: Avalanche® is a trademark of Ava Labs, Inc.; Google Cloud and Google for Startups Cloud Program, of Google LLC; Ruta N and Gen N, of Corporación Ruta N Medellín. These programs and recognitions do not imply partnership, alliance, investment or sponsorship, and none of these organizations has approved or certified Basis Network's technology.
- **Verification methodology**: Four-agent R&D pipeline (Scientist, Logicist, Architect, Prover) combining quantitative experiments (60+), TLA+ formal specifications checked exhaustively by model checking (18 specifications verified, 1.5B+ states explored), 1:1 correspondence between implementation and specification, and a Coq refinement proof that the implementation is faithful to the specification. Source: https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/4-agent-ai-pipeline/
- **Licensing**: Apache 2.0; protocol open and auditable
- **Public code and certifications**: two public repositories at https://github.com/basis-network — the Basis CLI (Apache-2.0) and the organization's health files. They hold the OpenSSF Best Practices **Silver** badge (project 14224, the Basis CLI), a public OpenSSF Scorecard report, and REUSE 3.3 compliance. Basis Network's open source license-compliance and security-assurance programs are also self-certified as conformant with ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 (OpenChain) and listed in OpenChain's public Community of Conformance; it is a self-certification, not a third-party assessment. These certifications cover those two repositories — their verification tooling, checksums, CI workflows, tests and documentation — not the node or the network, whose code is not public yet. OpenSSF and OpenChain are Linux Foundation projects; REUSE is a Free Software Foundation Europe specification; none of them has audited Basis Network's technology.

The site is published in five languages with localized URL slugs. Every page lives under its language prefix, English included; the English pages are the primary version to cite.

No address without a language prefix is a page: not the root, https://basisnetwork.com.co/, nor /docs/, /blog/ and its articles, the legal pages, or the older Spanish addresses such as /manifiesto/. Each one answers with a temporary redirect (302) to its equivalent under a language prefix: the language the visitor chose on the site with the language switcher or the language notice (stored in the basis_lang cookie), if any; otherwise the first language of the browser's Accept-Language header when it is one of the five (Catalan, Galician and Basque count as Spanish); otherwise English, which is also where crawlers that send no Accept-Language header land. The language is never chosen from the country or the IP address. Inside a language prefix, older Spanish slugs redirect permanently (301) to that language's own slug (/fr/manifiesto/ → /fr/manifeste/). Cite the prefixed URLs, never an unprefixed one.

Each language preserves institutional names (La Veeduría, El Consistorio, La Boulé, La Asamblea del Tesoro, La Plaza Común, El Mérito Público, El Cabildo Técnico) in their original Spanish — they are canonical proper nouns, not translatable terms.

## Core pages

- [Full fact document](https://basisnetwork.com.co/llms-full.txt): the complete version of this summary — economy in full (twelve genesis buckets, six inflation buckets, ZeroFee α + β), the seven civic institutions and three constitutional mechanisms, the nine principles, the developer devnet, FAQ, glossary and the blog articles. Read this one if you need to answer a specific question about Basis Network.
- [Home — Blockchain L1 for industrial enterprises](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/): Value proposition, real production cases, why Basis Network differentiates from public/private/build-your-own alternatives
- [Manifesto — Founding principles](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/manifesto/): The moral constitution of Basis Network — nine principles in three triads (truth/verification, organization/form, operational ethics), ideological axis (symmetry vs asymmetry of computational information), seven public commitments
- [Economy — Token, cap, distribution, sustainability](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/economy/): LTS denomination (6 decimals), 10B asymptotic cap, 7B genesis distributed across 12 buckets, 6 inflation buckets, ZeroFee subnet model (α + β), Foundation perpetual endowment + β+γ safety net
- [Governance — Two entities, seven civic institutions, three mechanisms](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/governance/): Basis Network Foundation (Swiss Stiftung, protocol custody) and Basis Network (planned Delaware C-Corp, commercial layer); seven civic institutions (Asamblea del Tesoro, Mérito Público, Boulé, Plaza Común, Veeduría, Cabildo Técnico, Consistorio); three constitutional mechanisms (M1 Boulé Constituyente, M2 Veto Cívico, M3 Cooperative Bootstrap)
- [Changelog — Protocol releases](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/changelog/): Public changelog of the blockchain code, with dates and scope. No entries published yet (as of 2026-09-14); the first will come with the next protocol release
- [Book a meeting](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/schedule/): 20-minute video call with co-founder Sebastian Tobar Quintero; scheduling handled by HubSpot
- [Blog](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/): Articles on enterprise blockchain, privacy with zero-knowledge proofs, the verification pipeline and customer cases

## Developers

- [Devnet documentation — JSON-RPC access](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/docs/): How to connect to the Basis Network devnet (chain ID 6969): the endpoint `https://rpc.basisnetwork.com.co/<token>`, with a personal RPC access token in the URL path; network parameters (ML-DSA-65 signatures, 32-byte addresses, ~3 s blocks); rate limits; the 38 enabled JSON-RPC methods (`eth_*` compatibility and native `basis_*`); and how to request that RPC token on Discord. Available in the five languages of the site
- [Faucet](https://faucet.basisnetwork.com.co): Test LITHOS for a devnet address, without sign-up or captcha; one payout per address every 24 hours, also available with `/faucet` on Discord. Devnet LITHOS has no value
- [Explorer](https://explorer.basisnetwork.com.co): Blocks, transactions and accounts of the devnet
- [Basis CLI](https://github.com/basis-network/basis-cli): The command-line client (Apache-2.0) to create wallets, query the chain, transfer LITHOS and deploy contracts. Ethereum wallets can only read this network, because it signs with ML-DSA-65 and uses 32-byte addresses; to send transactions, use the Basis CLI or the official wallet

## Blog

- [Why an industrial company needs blockchain](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/why-enterprise-blockchain/): Published 2025-02-15 — why operational records must stay trustworthy years later, the dual-write integration pattern (operational database + blockchain, with a retry queue) and a subscription model with no tokens to buy
- [ZK proofs: how to verify without revealing data](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/zk-proofs-enterprise-privacy/): Published 2025-03-01 — a transaction leaving a private subnet is wrapped in a zero-knowledge proof that validators across the whole network verify without seeing its content
- [Case study: Ingenio Sancarlos](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/ingenio-sancarlos-case-study/): Published 2025-03-05 — a Colombian sugar mill using PLASMA, an independent industrial maintenance product built on Basis Network; operational-efficiency improvements of 75–91% depending on the department and 300M+ Colombian pesos in verified savings
- [The 4-agent pipeline: engineering with formal rigor](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/blog/4-agent-ai-pipeline/): Published 2025-03-08 — the four AI agents of the R&D pipeline (Scientist, Logicist, Architect, Prover): 60+ experiments, 18 TLA+ specifications verified by model checking over 1.5B+ states, 1:1 mapping from specification to code and a Coq refinement proof

## Languages

- [English home](https://basisnetwork.com.co/en/): primary version to cite
- [Spanish home](https://basisnetwork.com.co/es/)
- [Portuguese home](https://basisnetwork.com.co/pt/)
- [French home](https://basisnetwork.com.co/fr/)
- [German home](https://basisnetwork.com.co/de/)

## Optional

- [Discord](https://discord.gg/7ZKkqEpWj2): Official community server — network progress, technical questions answered by the team, no token or price talk
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/basis-network/): Company updates
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/basis_network/): Company updates
- [X](https://x.com/basis_network_): Company updates
- [GitHub](https://github.com/basis-network): Public repositories — the Basis CLI and the organization's health files, Apache-2.0
- [Network status](https://status.basisnetwork.com.co): Live network availability and metrics
- [Sitemap](https://basisnetwork.com.co/sitemap-index.xml): Full URL index
- [Contact](mailto:contact@basisnetwork.com.co): General inquiries — contact@basisnetwork.com.co
- [Security contact](https://basisnetwork.com.co/.well-known/security.txt): Vulnerability reports go to security@basisnetwork.com.co, never to a public issue