Toucan Blog

Meet Farouq Ghandour - CEO and Founder of Neutral

Can you start by telling us a bit about who you are and your background. Before founding Neutral I was helping Web3 teams, primarily teams building on-chain derivative platforms, with product development and operations. During that time I was looking for an opportunity to work on climate change full-time. I

Meet Helena Merk - CEO of Spirals

Can you start by telling us a bit about who you are and your background. Hey! I’m Helena. I’ve been building things my whole life, starting with mobile app development early in middle school. I’ve touched everything from mobile game engines to cloud infrastructure to video streaming.

Meet Adrian Wons - Founder of Senken

Can you start by telling us a bit about who you are and your background. My name is Adrian & I am the founder and CEO of senken. I have a background in computational fluid dynamics in the wind energy space. Applied the knowledge in the consulting space at EY,

Web3-Climate

Tokenization of carbon credits — an explainer

Tokenized carbon is the digital representation of real-world carbon credits on the blockchain. We explain how tokenization works, look at risks, benefits, and the potential of this novel technology for climate solutions

ReFi for empowering communities in the global south

ReFi for the global south: An emergent movement

ReFi movement in the global south has the potential to lift millions from poverty, while driving sustainable regenerative actions to tackle climate change

Announcements

Why the FTX debacle proves that DeFi (and ReFi) are the future

The FTX Group has filed for bankruptcy. What implications does this have for the crypto industry and for on-chain carbon? A piece to put the recent events in perspective.

Web3-Climate

KYC in Web3 carbon markets

How can KYC be implemented in web3 carbon markets? Here, we explore what it means, and what the different moving pieces are

Web3-Climate

5 ways web3 can accelerate climate action

What are the core ideas around blockchains and web3-incentivized climate action? What are the key barriers that might get in the way of success?

deCarbonized

deCarbonized #31: DAC’s journey to scale; responses to Integrity Council’s draft carbon principles

Tracing the evolving contours of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology; understanding IC-VCM’s public consultation on Core Carbon Principles, and Verra, Gold Standard’s reactions to it

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Decoding Verra, Gold Standard responses to IC-VCM’s draft carbon principles

How different stakeholders view the Integrity Council's core carbon principles, and how it could shape the voluntary carbon markets going forward

Announcements

Toucan 🤝 Return Protocol | Automating climate action

Toucan partners with Return Protocol. Together, we'll make climate action across blockchains as simple as possible! Learn more here!

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Toucan Grants Season 1 Roundup

Toucan Grants recipients, Season 1: Carbon project origination infrastructure & carbon marketplaces, NFT utility, GameFi, and a regenerative metaverse

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Toucan Burn Report Vol 2 – supporting the cleanup of the BCT pool 🌍

Economics should be regenerative by design. A living example for this is our fee structure: 80% of specific fees are used to retire the lowest-quality carbon credits in Toucan carbon pools.

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deCarbonized #30: Lacunae in CDR frameworks; ReFi’s expanding horizons

From ocean conservation to climate-positive NFTs, ReFi projects are changing the world; the need for greater policy scrutiny; blockchain and voluntary carbon markets

Web3-Climate

8 ways ReFi is driving climate action with the help of Gitcoin Grants 🍃

Gitcoin Grants Round 15 (GR15) runs from September 7-22, 2022. We’ve looked at the projects raising funds on Gitcoin now, and grouped them into our favorite ways ReFi is driving climate action.

Announcements

Toucan 💚 Gitcoin & public goods

Toucan is donating $5,000 to the Gitcoin GR15 climate matching pool. We will also offset all emissions from Gitcoin GR15 up until the Ethereum Merge 🌿

Web3-Climate

#ReflySummer: Driving demand for on-chain carbon on Celo

More demand for carbon credits = more incentive to build planet-positive projects. Read here how web3 helps scale carbon credit demand.

deCarbonized

deCarbonized #29: Blockchain energy use and climate action; VCM responses to John Oliver skit

Reactions to John Oliver's portrayal of carbon markets; can blockchain be good for the climate; looking for a deCarbonized guest author

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Can blockchain be good for the climate? 🗻

Those working in climate often associate blockchain with the excessive amounts of energy used by Bitcoin. Indeed, this issue continues to steal headlines and railroad conversations about the potential of blockchain to unlock new solutions for climate action. There is however growing support for blockchain solutions amongst key global institutions.

Announcements

Toucan 🤝 Spirals — climate-financing on Celo

We're excited to partner with Spirals on Celo! Spirals redirects block rewards to climate impact, and enables effortless climate financing.

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$NCT added as currency to Lens🎉

Decentralized social graph Lens Protocol has integrated NCT (tokenized, nature-based carbon credits) as a native currency! Read here what this means

deCarbonized

deCarbonized #28: Dispelling 5 myths about tokenized carbon; New Frontier CDR funding round

IFC co-launches the Carbon Opportunities Fund, which aims to sell and track tokenized carbon credits; Verra releases biochar methodology developed by South Pole and partners

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Dispelling 5 myths about tokenized carbon 🔮

Tokenized carbon credits are created by moving credits from the traditional voluntary carbon market (VCM) onto the blockchain. To date, Toucan have tokenized nearly 22 million carbon credits from the Verra Registry, representing 5% of current market supply. The speed at which innovation in this space has occurred however has

Web3-Climate

ETHBarcelona — How to execute an environmentally-friendly conference

ETHBarcelona was designed to be as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible. In addition to reducing emissions wherever possible, Toucan sponsored offsetting all unavoidable emissions.

Announcements

11 Celo projects that are building with Toucan carbon

Check out these exciting projects building with carbon on Celo - from NFTs & decentralized climate investing to DeFi applications & ReFi indexes! #ReFlySummer