Investing in Biodiversity with Endangered Tokens | RWA x ReFi Report
Release Date: 01/21/2023
Open Source Agriculture: funding & managing coconut farms with blockchain | Alejandro Adon | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Please meet Alejandro Adon of Kokonut Network. Based in the Dominican Republic, Kokonut Network provides blockchain governance and open-source accounting to the agricultural industry. Their mission is to promote, organize, fund, and manage coconut farms around the world. https://kokonut.network/ As a blockchain-based cooperative, Kokonut aims to develop and manage a network of coconut farms, all connected by web3. Their main goal is to address the worldwide lack of funding for agricultural projects. Kokonut helps farmers get the funds they need while creating opportunities for web3 communities...
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Shamba MRV Network & Ecological Oracle | Kennedy Ng'ang'a | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Please meet Kennedy Ng'ang'a, Founder & CEO of Shamba, the Ecological Data Oracle & MRV Network. Based out of Nairobi, Kenya, Shamba is an ecological data oracle and Decentralized Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (dMRV) Network. Shamba is building a decentralized #MRV network to power #regenerativefinance (ReFi) and provides affordable MRV powered by web3. Their MRV solution enables smallholders to create carbon credits on their farms irrespective of their size. https://shamba.network/ This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate...
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Get paid to Regenerate the Earth | Sev Nightingale | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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The Impact App (TIA) and Eco Labs' mission is to make Regeneration an Occupation, where anyone can make a living healing our planet and restoring ecosystems as a Regenerator. They are weaving together technologies to help Regenerators issue Ecological Assets at any scale. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that...
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Regeneration for All | John Ellison from ReFiDAO | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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ReFiDAO is a founder-led startup community on a mission to accelerate impact for people and planet. TMO is joined today by #ReFi legend John Ellison @climateXcrypto. John is leading the #RegenerativeFinance movement by always asking: How do we transform an extractive capitalist system into a regenerative economy that can heal the earth? This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter...
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Scientific collaboration for ecosystem #regeneration | ReSci Network | Gitcoin Climate Solutions
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Today Sage from ReSci Network joins TMO. ReSci Network is leading ethical, ecosystem regeneration-centric Decentralized Science (#DeSci). They are focused on scientific collaboration for ecosystem #regeneration. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate...
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Code is Law | LexDAO Legal Engineering | #GitcoinAlpha
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Kyle Smith from LexDAO joins TMO. LexDAO is a legal engineering guild. As a decentralized autonomous organization, LexDAO aims to provide a decentralized marketplace for legal services using blockchain technology. It aims to make legal services more affordable and accessible to individuals and businesses. LEX DAO also aims to create a community-driven platform for legal services, where users can contribute to the development of legal services and share in the governance of the platform. https://linktr.ee/lexdaogrant This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching...
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Regenerative Finance in the Global South | Pranav Khanna | #GitcoinClimate
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. This segment is with Pranav Khanna of ReFi By South. ReFi by South is a community building project with a goal to localize and scale climate action - through technology and community organizing using regenerative finance (ReFi) in the global South. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of...
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$650M for Natural Capital | Martijn Wilder of Pollination | RWA x ReFi Report
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$333k for Climate! | Gitcoin Climate Round w/ Ben West
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Ben West, Cause Round Lead, from Gitcoin. Gitcoin Grants is a community-led initiative that allows users and organizations to directly fund the development of their favorite open...
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Grassroots Climate Action with Bloom Network | Gitcoin Climate
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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the guest's project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Magenta from Bloom Network. Bloom is a cyber-physical social network that helps people find and participate in grassroots climate actions where they live....
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Today we speak with Ignacio Puga Co-Founder & CEO of Endangered Tokens
website: https://www.endangeredtokens.org/
"A real life Scarce living being that needs to be found, registered and be kept alive for future generations." Endangered Tokens mission is to form a decentralized #investment community for #biodiversity preservation, giving Value and governance to stakeholders through Crypto Assets. They create digital collectible assets with blockchain technology that stands for a threatened tree specimen that needs our help to be kept safe within their fragile environment.
This episode is part of the RWA x ReFi Report which is made possible by the Climate Collective (https://climatecollective.org) and brought to you by .basin (https://basin.global)
In this episode:
00:00 Real World Assets for Regenerative Finance (RWA for ReFi)
01:21 refi world cohort Ignacio from
01:24 endangered tokens
01:54 ReFi Friday Twitter Spaces (ReFiFriday)
02:03 refi movement, Moving DeFi to ReFi
02:48 hydraulic engineer, entrepreneur, crypto geek, surfer, gamer, and food lover.
02:54 sustainable ecosystems are the base of everything.
03:00 Highly convinced that cryptocurrencies will save the the world
03:09 life is something to be experienced
03:36 The system is flawed, capitalism, money system
03:51 cryptocurrency brings opportunity, democratic opportunity 03:57 tool of value exchanging
04:06 sustainable and regenerative
05:00 incentives for the outcomes we want to see
06:21 collaboration
06:54 sustainability on planet earth
07:18 incentives for regenerating
07:27 intrinsic value
07:36 overview of what Endangered Tokens is
07:42 the intrinsic value of the trees
08:06 forests are living beings
08:15 intrinsic value is subtle
08:42 endangered species
08:54 saving their spirit with the blockchain
09:06 piece of art that nature created, is the value, history, genomes
09:21 whole ecosystems
09:36 Ents from the Lord of the Rings, guardians of the forest
09:54 taking care of the rest of the creatures
10:15 tokenizing the real life in order to save it
10:42 Bitcoin "Change my mind" meme, 21 million Bitcoin but only 4,000 Queule trees (Gomortega Keule)
11:00 create the system that can actually hold that value within these tokens
11:06 bolts of the world will be the the forest
11:24 forest protection, liquidity of the value
11:39 store of value should be the forest
12:12 Queule trees (Gomortega Keule) is a very rare genome, no other trees in the world like it
12:36 loss of predators / keystone species prevents the tree from reproducing
13:00 funding more research, mapping the biggest threats
13:51 dendrochronology: thousand years old trees
14:30 3D models of the trees to create a biodiversity credit on Regen Network
14:48 ENTS NFT, you become godparent of the tree
14:57 digital value for each tree
15:06 3D modeling of the trees as digital assets for video games, movies, augmented reality that has real world impact,
16:18 real world applications and real world impact
16:45 experimenting with these new tools but the real world value of the tree is what is going to keep them alive
17:27 clearing the trees for cattle and fuel and farming
18:24 mono crop pines and eucalyptus for the forest industry
20:00 greenwashing
20:51 no incentives for planting native trees
21:42 building on Polygon
22:33 tokenomics, land owner payments, research, science, 3D models, replicas.
23:42 unreal engine 3D model, augmented reality virtual reality of the forest and trees, translated into media music, you will hear the language of the tree and the music made by the tree, the heartbeat of the tree
24:42 the frequency and vibration of the tree and truly experience of the forest
25:45 poems of the tree and a truly personal experience with that particular tree
26:42 #conservation, Chile Royal Decree of Conservation.
27:42 more incentive to keep the tree alive, payment or revenue stream besides the intrinsic value and have real monetary value
30:06 generative pixel art collection of 10,000 pieces
32:15 the different layers of value around real estate, holistic real estate development, conservation development
33:00 hydro mapping and basin mapping, beautiful colored basins and watersheds, hydraulic engineering background
33:18 project for the Chilean government, modeling the underground water and the surface water until 2060
33:45 Will Masters, Ogallala Life, Landscape Rehydration
To get involved please visit:
https://www.endangeredtokens.org/
.basin is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.