Upvote | Web3/Carbon Week #43
Upvote | Web3/Carbon Week #43
Friends,
This week:
+ ReFi Events 2023
+ Make MRV cheaper and faster
+ Directory of Web3/carbon leaders
+ 15 web3/carbon projects with updates
+ 3 newly added projects to the repository
+ Upvotes Projects
ReFi Events 2023
Want to visit a ReFi event in your region in 2023? 👩🌾Regen.network and Loa Labs have collected a growing list of already 70 #ReFi events for 2023 in a publicly editable calendar.
Make MRV Cheaper and Faster
🌲 Open Forest Protocol presents a detailed 101 on Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV). The post also answers the question on how Open Forest’s system can make MRV faster, cheaper, more decentralized and accurate.
Measurement, reporting, and verification of the amount of carbon removed is the integral step in proving an intended impact has been achieved. In forestation, current “legacy” MRV process is still inaccessible to the majority of projects. For a landowner to enroll their land for carbon offsetting, and accrue carbon credits, they must jump through many usually expensive hoops.
Open Forest Protocol’s approach claims to be faster and free: projects operators and field agents collect data on the ground, the data is submitted on stored on a public blockchain. From there, a global, collaborative, decentralized, and diverse network of validators take over: By deploying remote sensing, GIS, and forestation data analysis they validate the data within 60 days. Crypto economic incentivizes are assuring accountability. Get the full overview of OFP’s approach here.
Web3/Carbon Leaders Directory
I released the list of people in Web3/Carbon. It is a curated directory of (currently) 191 founders, leaders, and voices in Web3/Carbon. Check it out here: kuoka.earth/people
I will try to update it weekly. It's based on the public websites and twitter profiles from the teams/people at the 100 most promising Carbon ReFi projects in the repository. There's also a selected list of recommended Twitter accounts to follow, that often share valuable insights for the web3/carbon community.
15 Web3/Carbon Projects with Updates
🍧KlimaDAO (Carbon Reserve Currency, klimadao.finance)
KlimaDAO presents how it has decreased its monthly expenditure by 40%, and seeks community approval for the operational budget for 2023.
In 2023, KlimaDAO wants to spend $1.5M of $9.8 USDC in the treasury to fund the DAO. The money will be spent on product development, growth, business and supply. Community members can discuss and vote for the proposal here.
KlimaDAO helped the Alchemix protocol to retire 4390 tons of CO2 (evenly split between BCT, NCT, MOSS). This marks the next protocol on Ethereum to go carbon neutral by offsetting its entire historical carbon footprint.
🐣 Toucan (Carbon Bridge, toucan.earth) has launched a “meet the founders” series on their blog introducing and discussing partner protocols in detail:
Meet Farouq Ghandour, CEO and Founder of 😐Neutral Protocol (Derivatives for Tokenized Carbon)
Meet Helena Merk CEO of Spirals 🍥Spirals Protocol (Climate Impact Staking)
Meet Adrian Wons, Founder of 🕳️Senken (Decentralized Carbon Credit Marketplace)
⛷️ERC Cool (ERC721 NFT standard with embedded carbon, erc-cool.org)
In this week’s ReFi Podcast, Leanne Bats introduces her implementation of the ERC-Cool NFT standard. It embeds carbon offsetting directly into the NFT on the base blockchain layer. Whenever the NFT is transacted (sent, traded, minted), it offsets the carbon emitted automatically. Also, the website is cool.
👩💻Thallo (Carbon Credit Exchange, thallo.io)
This week's Climate Collectives Member showcase features a deepdive into how Thallo carbon credit exchange and bridging works.
🚰 Flowcarbon (Two-way Carbon Bridge) and ♻️Return Protocol (Onchain Offsetting) announced a new partnership. It will allow Return’s automated protocol to also offset tokenized carbon credits from Flowcarbon.
💥Kolektivo (Framework for Local Regenerative Economies, kolektivo.network)
Kolektivo is hosting its seed launch on the Celo Network together with Refi Prime. as of writing this, the project has already raised 75% of the funds. The campaign will close on December 15.
Kolektivo's Luuk Weber was featured Green Pill Podcast.
👩🎤Single.earth (Natural Assets Backed Money)
🥦RefiDAO (ReFi Community, refidao.com)
🌎Solid.World DAO (De-risking Forward Carbon, solid.world)
Solid World announced that they are on the final stretch of smart contract development and are currently scheduling smart contract audits.
🌍Open Climate by Open Earth Foundation (Climate accounting system)
Open Earth Foundation released a ReFi Ecosystem Litepaper exploring how to create interoperability in the ecosystem.
3 Awarded Projects
▶️Carbonpath (Shut down gas wells) and 😐 Neutral Protocol (Derivatives for Tokenized Carbon) were rewarded 1st and 2nd price at the Celo Camp Batch 6. Celo Camp, is an eight-week virtual acceleration and mentorship program.
🌞Reneum (Renewable Energy Marketplace)
3 Newly Added Projects to the Repository:
©️Callirius (Marketplace for nature-based solutions, callirius.com)
⛷️ERC Cool (ERC721 NFT standard with embedded carbon, erc-cool.org)
🌍Open Climate by Open Earth Foundation (Climate accounting system)
Upvote your Favorite Project
You can now upvote the web/3carbon projects that you find important. Community upvotes are one of 12 signals that inform Kuoka's ranking/checklist for web3/carbon projects.
Go and vote for your favorite projects here: www.kuoka.earth/projects-kuoka-community-upvote (please consider to scroll through the whole list and vote for several projects)