Happy Earth Day! Join our Twitter Space today with Mia Diawara of Lowercarbon Capital to learn more about climate tech investing and more. Heating Up 🔥 this week features:
Saving and Protecting Forests Around the Globe
ReFi Highlights to Keep You Updated
Updates from ClimateDAO
What’s Happening in ReFi?
ReFi DAO Kicks Off Planet Positive NFT Hackathon!
Over $20,000 in prizes are being awarded from April 22-24 as a contest to explore the impact of NFTs that can stabilize the climate, restore biodiversity, and institute justice.
The two blockchain-based companies announced a partnership that will build an on-chain infrastructure which makes carbon an accessible asset for a range of investors seeking to channel advance capital to project developers.
Celo, a mobile DeFi platform, teases a special Earth Day announcement with Moss. Moss is also partnering with Republic Crypto for an NFT giveaway worth $6,000.
Read of the Week: Earth Day ReFi Event Master List!
Soon-to-be interviewee @daryljedwards compiled an awesome list of ReFi happenings for Earth Day!
Earth Day Vibes:
Tweets of the Week:
ClimateDAO Updates:
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🥷🏽Tac Ops🥷🏽
Finalized Season 2 Strategy, Roles, & Responsibilities
Support Bankless x ClimateDAO engagement
👩🏽💻Platform👩🏽💻
Update platform content and deploy test net
Upcoming season roles and responsibilities
🌱Growth🌱
Managing logistics around our Event Series
Crafting and submitting job descriptions for Season 2
📚Wisdom📚
Fellowship Program Week 2
Designing fundraising process
Deep Dive: Open Forest Protocol
Our exclusive interview series this week features Open Forest Protocol:
This week Rim Jeong from the OFP team spent time with ClimateDAO to discuss the Open Forest Protocol.
OFPs origins came from a melding of worlds - forestry work being done by founder Fred Fournier intermixing with co-founder Michael Kelly’s blockchain experience. Together they determined to utilize blockchain technology, specifically on the NEAR protocol, to measure and prove forestation. This innovative use of technology allows OFP to transparently validate reforestation and afforestation efforts.
Like so many projects that ClimateDAO has been highlighting in these interviews, OFP is solving major impediments to protecting and cultivating our planet’s forests. Using grassroots efforts from their decentralized validation network, they are able to provide unprecedented access to MRV technologies that are typically blocked by legacy institutions filled with slow moving and costly bureaucratic processes.
OFP’s approach is to give those with MRV tools access to data and verification, which will allow for forestation efforts to scale quickly and dramatically. Additionally, this will open up the carbon economy through forestation that generates carbon credits. With this strategy OFP has created a system linking financiers with forest projects, which will reduce the time it takes to generate profit and credits from 5-10 years, to 1 single year after a project uploads data for the first time.
OFP has built a global network for land owners, validators, and investors, which revolves around their OPN token which ensures honesty and trust in the proprietary validation system. OPN will also allow for DAO governance once the DAO goes online. Their efforts have already reached forestation projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and beyond.
The OFP team would like to “wish a warm welcome to anyone who dares to look into climate action, full of a world of possibilities to research. Understand that the experiement and contribution to discourse and progress are invaluable. Things are as difficult as they are rare.”
Be on the lookout for the OFP Mainnet and Token launch in June and learn how to help by joining their Discord today!
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💚💚,
The ClimateDAO Team