BIM

The project roadmap dates BIM and BIM Finance V1 to the fourth quarter of 2022. In his later account, chief executive Léo Pestre said the token had been created to raise substantial funds for investments in France. The original Polygon maximum was 314 million, with 72% assigned to a treasury described as DAO-controlled and 19% reserved for exchange listings.

The product expanded while that financing thesis weakened. BIM Finance V2, staking, a DAO and BIM Exchange appeared across the 2023 roadmap. Instead of building a new chain or custodying deposits, the interface connected wallets to existing contracts for buying, selling, swapping, bridging and yield strategies. Its convenience came from assembling routes, not from removing the protocols beneath them.

On April 6, 2024, Pestre published a proposal to cut the supply by about 89%. He explicitly tied the reset to the crypto downturn and failures including FTX and Celsius. The plan reduced the DAO and listing reserves, cut team and founder balances, and put team holdings on new unlock schedules. Voting ran from April 5 to April 8.

The surviving documents do not collapse into one clean number. The proposal estimated 33,421,887.69 BIM. The tokenomics page later described a 33 million maximum but also displayed a V2 table totaling 34,367,545, 64% of it in the DAO treasury. Those figures record a transition. They should not be silently substituted for the later Base contract.

The roadmap placed migration to Base in the first quarter of 2025. The project’s current overview now says supply is 30 million with no minting capacity, and BaseScan shows exactly 30 million at the verified address 0x555FFF48549C1A25a723Bd8e7eD10870D82E8379. The older Polygon contract remains in the tokenomics archive, so network and address are part of BIM’s identity.

The Base code narrows token-level control. Its constructor minted the whole supply to one recipient. After deployment, the published ABI exposes ordinary transfers, signed permits and burn or burnFrom. It lists no mint, pause, blacklist, ownership transfer or proxy upgrade. That simplicity says nothing about administrators in a bridge, vault, router or treasury, each of which is a separate system.

BIM documentation gives held or staked tokens Snapshot voting power. The subjects can matter: five proposals described in 2024 covered a mandate for BIM Labs, conversion and movement of fee revenue, and expansion of treasury signers from four to seven. The ballot expressed holder choice; developers and multisignature signers still had to execute it.

The utility page also promises staking rewards linked to exchange results, trading-fee refunds and liquidity fees. These are published program terms, not shares in an operating company or a fixed claim on revenue. Current terms can change or discontinue services and disclaim expected outcomes. Readers therefore need both the governance page and the legal page to understand the word “rights.”

The organizational record is less tidy than a single project name suggests. A 2024 article said BIM Finance was operating through a centralized structure in France and proposed transferring digital assets, development platforms and social channels to the DAO through a BVI holding company. The later Foundation page describes a separate BVI foundation with a board, grants, intellectual-property and improvement-proposal duties. It says BIM GROUPE HOLDING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED initially funded the Foundation and calls that company the protocol originator. The November 2025 terms name the same holding company as operator of the web services. Because the cited materials contain no independent registry extracts, these remain the project's own descriptions of its legal structure.

Those terms also narrow access and recourse. They exclude residents of the European Union and United States, permit the interface to block access, cap aggregate liability at USD 100 and emphasize self-custody. That does not contradict permissionless contracts: it separates an open blockchain transaction from the company-controlled web route used to prepare it.