Roadmap Announcement!
🚀 Geeq EVM TestNet this Q4.
🔥 IGNITE launch Q1 2026 — first public chain with native coin. The utility token for one of the biggest needs in blockchain: user-friendly digital receipts.
Serial entrepreneur Ric Asselstine, specialized in taking technology from R&D to market, searched out John P. Conley, mathematical economist, axiomatic game theorist, and professor in Information and Communications Technology to evaluate the future of blockchain.
As crypto projects raced to scale, it was obvious their end users would be required to accept even greater risk. With the addition of Stephanie So, the objective was set: provide non-technical users security for their tokens and associated data transfers.
Geeq’s White Paper began by identifying situations where trust deficits could be eliminated or reduced, if a credible information source existed. The White Paper outlined a different approach to consensus, messaging, block writing and applications that aligned incentives to increase security and lower costs.
The Geeq Project’s John P. Conley and Stephanie A. So submitted a patent application for their invention of “Blockchain Methods, Nodes, Systems, and Products” on January 17, 2018.
The patent was approved in September 2022.
» Read more about: Patent application – Geeq’s information and communication technology »
On February 20, 2018, the Geeq Corporation was incorporated in Ontario, Canada. Visit our About Us to learn more about Geeq’s team and advisors. As Co-Founder and CEO Ric Asselstine says, Geeq was “born global” and as Co-Founder and CDO Stephanie A. So said, “we knew what we had in our hands”.
Co-Founder and Chief Economist John P. Conley published Geeq’s Technical Paper, which provided the mathematical proof that Geeq’s mechanism design resulted in a unique, coalition-proof, equilibrium for a decentralized network of nodes to produce provably honest and provably canonical blockchain, under very general assumptions. The requirement was that the active node list (the validating network) of a Geeq chain had to be open to a single honest node.
Because only public,
Co-Founder and Chief Economist John P. Conley published a paper that described a proposal for the monetary policy for the Geeq platform. Rather than a stable-token, John devised the mechanics for a Geeq stabilized-token.
The purpose of Geeq’s monetary policy was to smooth volatility in the price behavior of Geeq’s utility token without determining its market price. The monetary policy is transparent, self-funding, and designed to reduce uncertainty,
The first step in the development work for Geeq’s protocols was a proof of concept for independent node’s individual validation of standard coin transactions, including the self-audit feature of the network when the proofs provided by nodes diverge.
A browser demo was released in February 2021. Also, find out more about Geeq Pay. Being able to make and receive payments is the first hurdle for any decentralized blockchain technology-as-a-service.
Geeq’s token team handled the launch of the Geeq ERC-20 on August 6, 2020, very smoothly. Here is the information.
Name – GEEQ
Contract address – 0x6b9f031d718dded0d681c20cb754f97b3bb81b78
Decimals – 18
Etherscan link:
https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b9f031d718dded0d681c20cb754f97b3bb81b78
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The next step was to show Geeq could scale to settle micropayments on-chain. Micropayments have always been a core use case for Geeq’s high-volume, low-margin, multi-chain infrastructure, built with bearer token technology from the second patent application.
The goal was to provide the digital equivalent of small change. A parent could fund a child’s purse by converting Geeq into discrete nickels and dimes. These tokens remained denominated in Geeq but, once issued,
The second step in the micropayments stage was to validate streaming payments for streaming content, by combining a blockchain, a web browser, conversion from Geeq to micropayments, and websites that would accept micropayments in order to stream video or audio files. This functionality was released to the community.
The community could simulate using $Geeq (by using a pre-loaded wallet of pretend tokens) to fund and spend micropayments, mediated by transactions to a Geeq chain.
Application transactions use a different template (data structure) than simple validation transactions. Applications are supported by a pair of simultaneously constructed Geeq chains.
An application transaction is submitted with a data payload in addition to its header. When the transaction is validated, the header is included in the validation layer block and the payload is added to a corresponding application layer block.
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Patent covering Proof of Honesty protocol, multi-chain architecture, and parallel application layer (to keep data efficiently tied to its source on-chain) and other core innovations issued and announced in May 2022.
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Geeq Data is Geeq’s first native web application. It uses Geeq’s ground-breaking method of scaling while every application transaction is settled securely on-chain. Geeq apps do not require smart contracts.
Geeq Data is an attestation service: an obvious area where businesses and individuals will benefit from Geeq’s efficient, sustainable, reliable, and uniquely neutral blockchain protocols.
Geeq Data is endpoint-agnostic.
A Geeq Data block explorer is another webapp. It is a tool to search the validation and application blocks for Geeq Data. Features include searching for an attestation by its metadata.
Using the webapp, any user is able to verify easily and independently, the transactions in blocks kept by a node. This is another trust minimized feature that arises naturally from Geeq’s security model, which compares favorably to other platforms with such complex security models,
APIs (application program interfaces) had to be developed in order to interact with the Geeq Data webapp, the Geeq Data block explorer, and the blockchains. The environment is described in detail here.
In parallel with development, Geeq is setting up, maintaining, and updating dedicated environments to collaborate with existing and interested strategic partners and clients. Each dedicated environment is running private instances of Geeq chains for Geeq Data.
Early deployments of Geeq Data will be used to learn and iterate on solutions to real world problems, preferences, and needs.
Geeq’s overall strategy is to develop a suite of templates that deliver easy-to-use but powerful functionality for common business needs. These templates will be deployed initially in private instances and then generalized for mainstream adoption on the public platform.
Feedback from super-users helps refine, streamline, test, and prepare Geeq for public mainnet. By making commitments to solve problems for enterprises with large commercial interests, Geeq broadens and accelerates support for the enduring success of its public platform and token velocity.
Administrative users may extend or revoke permissions for users to send transactions to a private blockchain.
The dev team upgraded the encryption algorithm to Ed25519. Ed25519 is efficient which is important for blockchain performance where each chain is expected to process large volumes of transactions.
The exercise of upgrading the encryption had independent value. It demonstrated the code is being written such that changing the encryption algorithm leaves the logic of all the validation checks intact. Put another way, the protocol works regardless of the encryption algorithm used.
As envisioned in Geeq’s White Paper,
Geeq’s standard merkle trees provide an efficient and novel way to encode a merkle path all the way to the transaction level in any node’s block. If a user has exact data on a transaction, it is straightforward to dive quickly into the Merkle trees.
The schema for the merkle trees was finalized for each transaction in the Validation Layer Block, the Validation Layer Ledger, the Application Layer Block, and the Application Layer Ledger.
The merkle roots for the Validation Layer Block (VLB), Validation Layer Ledger (VLL), and Application Layer Block (ALB or app block) were computed for Geeq’s Data app.
Geeq’s protocol is different from other protocols because it is a leaderless protocol. At Geeq, each independent node receives the same set of transactions and builds its own block. Each individual node is responsible for following the validation protocol exactly.
The protocol requires each node to sign (attest) to a content statement that contains their own Chain State View, based on their own computed merkle roots. By protocol,
Private blockchain users may not wish to allow public or anonymous nodes in their chain’s validation network. Permissions were added to drop nodes from a network.
Geeq’s no-consensus protocol still holds each individual node accountable for following its strict validation criteria. In other words, Geeq’s private blockchain users are still protected, by protocol, from malicious individual nodes or from collusion of a group of nodes even if they do not delete such nodes.
Private blockchain users may wish to authorize specific nodes to join their chain’s validation network. Permissions were added to add nodes to a network.
Adding nodes to a validation network allows private blockchain users to increase access and convenience to blockchain services, multiply network effects, selectively increase transparency, improve compliance, and seamlessly work with regulators.
Geeq-native NFTs and fungible tokens were added to Geeq’s original roadmap. As a result, two new asset categories were added to the schema for the original coin asset records.
A user’s coin asset account will include coins, NFTs, and fungible tokens.
Geeq Data established Geeq’s software product development cycle. As transactions were validated and written to a block, their data payloads were separated and written to a corresponding app block. Thus, the attestations were captured in time in the application blockchain. Pure data does not require the creation of an application ledger record.
An NFT does require the creation of an application ledger record. The record is written into the ledger when it is minted.
Ordinary user accounts are coin asset accounts controlled by its public-private key (PPK) pair. When a coin asset account is created, a coin asset account record is created in the validation layer ledger. These user accounts may contain coins, NFTs, and fungible tokens. A user may send and receive any of those assets using (the same) standard transactions. When those transactions are validated and written in the validation layer block, balances are updated in the validation layer ledger.
The study of distributed systems in computer science predates the release of the Netscape browser (1994). It has a long track record for informing how pre-internet, centrally controlled networks should behave. These systems addressed different problems than the ones emerging now as connectivity scales, people become more dispersed, and trust in institutions wanes.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin protocol (Proof of Work) proposed a novel and surprisingly robust consensus mechanism for a decentralized setting. However,
One of Geeq’s strengths is the ease with which it integrates Web2 or SaaS style apps with blockchain. The dev team prepared a NFT minting app for the community for the holidays. This was the first of many apps that can use Geeq’s NFTs!
For more details, please see the write-up in the December 2023 Technical Update.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) build logically on Geeq’s secure validation of transactions with application payloads and metadata. The issuer fixes the characteristics and terms of the NFT. An NFT is minted by sending an application layer transaction. When the mint transaction is validated, a permanent record is created in the application layer. No smart contracts are required.
Geeq NFTs are controlled by coin accounts, so transactions that involve existing NFTs interact only with the validation blockchain.
Merkle proofs for NFT transactions are available via API.
Geeq Stacks build on the foundation of counterparty NFTs, offering a no-smart contract approach to curate, grow, and trade multi-layered digital assets.
Each Stack begins with a base layer and evolves as authenticated layers are appended by the owner. These layers can reference external records or capture new data, creating a complete, verifiable history of the Stack’s evolution. Stacks provide a snapshot of each moment in time, enabling users to organize assets thematically—such as maintaining a record of car receipts in one Stack or tracking achievements in another.
A Counterparty NFT requires, by protocol, the validation of signatures from the sender and receiver.
Counterparty NFTs make sense when there must be a meeting of the minds, i.e. when both parties must agree to the same terms for the transfer of an asset. People are used to counterparty signatures to provide assurance that an asset has changed hands: when a buyer purchases real estate, when an important package is delivered.
Counterparty NFTs provide the same level of certainty when digital assets are exchanged: whether they represent a tokenized real world asset,
The Geeq Stacks App is Geeq’s innovative on-chain solution for managing dynamic, multi-layered digital collections. It enables users to authenticate, append, and organize data securely, all without the need for smart contracts.
Geeq Stacks offers a new approach to blockchain-backed organization and verification, providing intuitive tools to curate evolving assets and unlock practical, scalable applications for businesses and individuals.
The Geeq Block Explorer for the Stacks App provides a transparent and intuitive interface to view and verify on-chain activity. It allows users to examine the provenance, authenticity, and sequence of every layer within a Stack, leveraging Geeq’s no-smart contract protocol.
Designed for accessibility and precision, the Block Explorer ensures all data is organized, searchable, and easily auditable, making blockchain validation straightforward for both users and developers.
The Stacks App and its customized block explorer were deployed simultaneously over multiple chains, for the first round of VIP NFT pass holders. Gold holders were provided more credits each on their own chain, while silver and bronze holders shared a different chain. (Yes!)
The Stacks App integrates a custodial wallet to deliver a user-friendly experience. Users access familiar tools like DALL-E and can save or tokenize their work directly on a Geeq chain, extending their workflow with seamless blockchain integration.
The in-app wallet simplifies the process: it creates a wallet for the user, formats the blockchain transaction without touching the data, and provides a confirmation button. Upon user approval, the wallet signs and submits the transaction to the blockchain and waits for a notification that the asset is in the user’s account.
Geeq Labs is a collaborative program launched to support developers as they experiment and prototype innovative applications on Geeq’s ultra-secure, Layer 0 blockchains. By on-boarding fellow builders, Geeq Labs fosters a community of visionaries, providing tools, mentorship, and dedicated resources to accelerate development. We look forward to building the future together.
Aitrex was the first independent developer to join Geeq Labs in 2024, launching SafeQeep, a multi-chain, non-custodial wallet with NFT minting and exchange built on Geeq.
Geeq and Geeq Labs partner Aitrex worked together to develop a future-proof schema so Geeq wallets are prepared to connect to multiple Geeq chains at a time.
When digital assets are minted as unique tokens with Geeq’s (deed + description) structure, the entire chain of custody is secure throughout the asset’s life cycle.
Users may verify any portion of the asset transfers by tracing the deed from account to account. They also may verify the digital asset record (description) itself, which is preserved in the data ledger.
Iterations on this architecture expanded the set of transactions for digital assets to allow:
sReleased Hydrogen (Q4 2024), Helium, and Carbon (Q1, Q2 2025) for the community as testnets with iterative changes to the Stacks App. Login through social media accounts (Twitter/X) to demonstrate easy access via Web2. Login with token-gated Geeq VIP Pass (on Blast) to demonstrate easy access via Web3. Held community contests for best Stacks! Easy-use wallet app within an app for token testnets and transactions was provided as a custodial wallet.
Responded to community requests for more features in Stacks App,
Aitrex built the first, non-custodial, multi-chain Geeq wallet as a mobile app. Named “SafeQeep” by the Community, SafeQeep includes an in-wallet feature to tokenize your data with a secret encryption key, sign it with your account’s private key, and send it to a Geeq chain. Read about its built-in contract-free mint here.
Administrative privileges were created to add and delete nodes in the validation network for a private blockchain.
Certain types of Geeq proxy accounts are able to designate an Administrative User. Permissioning structures for accounts and applications are highly desired for enterprise use and mirrors the settings for most software applications with group accounts.
Traditional software users will find this approach to blockchain familiar. In addition, these features provide on-ramps to integrations with Geeq.
Validating transactions, writing blocks, and updating records when there are multi-user permissions is complex. At the application layer,
Identity and Access Management (ICAM), and AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRISM) are two areas that are in crisis today.
Geeq’s zero-trust protocol natively embeds all the principles for zero-trust security. Assets and data are microsegmented, defined by the user as tokens owned and controlled in their own accounts. Continuous authentication is managed by the owner’s account key, tied unambiguously to a responsible person (unlike the keys to a smart contract).
Geeq’s multi-chain architecture establishes a new protocol-enforced, zero-trust rail for verifiable handshakes where mutual authentication is required. This architecture eliminates the gaps where man-in-the-middle attacks or spoofing can occur – because Geeq’s protocol has no middle. Instead of relying on trusted authorities to vouch for public keys, networks of local authorities issue public key identities as digital assets.
On Geeq’s public mainnet, $GEEQ is a utility token used to pay nodes for the validation and virtual machine services they provide to Geeq’s multi-chain ecosystem. $GEEQ is also used as a staking token for the good behaviour bonds that help ensure honest behaviour by the validation network. As a purely transactional cryptocurrency, $GEEQ is also suitable for use in micropayment and other payment applications.
Geeq’s multi-chain architecture avoids a major problem in many approaches to cross-chain interoperability.
A generalized search engine is under development for Ignite. Transactions, data, descriptions, and account balances are readable via APIs. All transactions were validated before written in blocks and ledgers, and users are able to verify any information at any time.
Testing and research existing code libraries is part of the development process, as needed. Geeq foresees the need to provide new code libraries to supplement existing ones.
Ongoing, internal documentation for developers are updated as new versions and features are released. Specifications for the Multi-chain architecture, including the additional features, is complete: through $Geeq cross-chain interoperability.
Strategic partners and clients will make requests for additional documentation as well, which will guide final documentation to be released with public mainnet.
Let’s bring the best of Geeq to Crypto! Crypto needs verifiability. This is L0 transparency – keep track of: who, what, where, and when on Geeq.
Geeq EVM + Integrations will begin in preparation for a Geeq EVM mainnet launched with Geeq’s own IGNITE chain!
Integrations will be spearheaded by the Geeq EVM team and crypto community, while Geeq Core continues to work on the core technology.
Geeq’s transaction logic is simple and enables many use cases by building the required base layer elements in the blockchain protocol. Because these are core functions that do not use smart contracts, they do not have dependencies that must be verified all the way back to the original call.
For the multi-chain platform itself, only the base-layer code must be audited. There is no additional code to write or verify. Geeq will seek external audits before public mainnet.
For users of public and hybrid (public-private) payments and applications powered by Geeq, all transaction fees on the Geeq ecosystem will take place with the native Geeq coin. All public nodes will be paid for honest work in the native Geeq coin, which will be automatically deposited to their node accounts by protocol.
As per Geeq’s White Paper, Geeq’s basic business model is to charge public platform users a fee equal to approximately three times the cost of the marginal resources needed to process transactions.
Every economy needs receipts. Geeq’s Layer 0 provides them.
Features, chains, and the Treasury chain for cross-chain transfers of the native coin. The “gas” needed for verifiable digital receipts.
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