ReFi Gazette #3
Welcome to the third edition of the ReFi Gazette, a bi-weekly primer covering the developments in and around Regenerative Finance and the larger DAO ecosystem we’re building with you!
This newsletter offers a guide to ReFi stakeholders by gathering the resources they may need.
In this edition;
Upcoming Projects
Featured Projects
Success Stories
Grantors, Accelerators, and Investors of ReFi
Bi-Weekly Recap
Prime Sources
OG Quotes
Sunday Readings
Upcoming Projects
- MRV 101
About: To help small-scale projects get full benefits of carbon, eco credits, and other incentives for ecosystem services, they are working to publish MRV1O1, a guide to quickly understand and implement relevant MRV best practices.
Featured Projects
Projects which we follow closely.
About: Thallo‘s flagship product is a novel exchange mechanism that aims to significantly reduce the impacts of climate change by utilizing blockchain technology to improve the transparency, liquidity, and efficiency of the carbon offset market.
Latest Updates: They have joined the Carbon Business Council
About: ClimateDAO is empowering everyday investors to be activists. Voting on shareholder proposals is a complicated and tedious process. ClimateDAO makes it easy for investors to have their voices heard at the companies they own.
Latest Updates: Gitcoin grant application.
About: Eco Labs is a collaborative onboarding ecosystem for regenerative action. They have interesting and valuable refi tools such as The Eco Index, Impact NFTs and The Impact App.
Latest Updates: Gitcoin grant application.
If you need more details, please reach out to us :)
Grantors, Accelerators, and Investors
Grantor | Toucan
Toucan’s mission is to support builders who are developing projects that utilize programable carbon and are innovating for the planet. Part of this support comes in the form of equity free capital. Their grants program is designed to help early stage projects and teams get off the ground and expedite their time to market.
Accelerator/Incubator | Buidlers Tribe
Exclusive access to partners, VCs, angel investors, other builders, and a group of mentors to guide. Projects can also apply for follow-on funding of up to $300,000 from their VC partners. They also provide support system from chains.
VC | Cerulean Ventures
Cerulean Ventures is an investment firm that believes natural assets will unlock the next $50 trillion in growth, while incentivizing the regeneration of Earth through new coordination technologies.
Success Stories
Reneum — raised USD $2.6M
Reneum is creating the first green marketplace to accelerate the energy transition. Focusing on the production of green energy rather than carbon drawdown, they offer a novel approach to environmental action. They use blockchain to fund renewable energy, leveraging the technology to verify every clean megawatt-hour produced and trace the journey of every single dollar spent.
Bi-Weekly Recap
Open Forest Protocol published a teaser about off-chain activities.
The GoldStandard opens up a public consultation to enable a process for tokenizing carbon credits.
dClimateDAO has announced the acquisition of Oasis Hub, a leading global data platform.
NatureFinance launched a new Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt Hub.
Aera Force announces a Capital Deployment into Digital Gaia.
Celo Network integrated on Brave.
Time is launching a sustainability division called "CO2 by Time"
Prime Sources - List of Known CDR Purchases
This list was started by Robert Höglund, and merged with the dataset maintained by cdr.fyi that visualizes the carbon removal market.
OG Quotes
Sunday Readings - Kolektivo Bluepaper
Kolektivo, which is the key point of Web3 - DAO - ReFi fields, has recently published its bluepaper. Immediately after, leading projects and names in the industry, including Celo, gave support.
In addition to the information about the project, we can say that the bluepaper is a very valuable resource for ReFi.
Get Primed!
We’ve never been more confident that the Regenerative Finance movement will drive the future of sustainable earth. It has never been a more exciting point to get involved in Prime and seize the ReFi.
If you are committed to ReFi and are interested in collaborating with or getting involved in Prime, jump into our Discord now, and let’s get connected!
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