#ReGenerate is our fortnightly newsletter covering everything you need to know about the Digital VCM (#DVCM).

In this edition:

- 💡 What are Core Carbon Principles?
- 🤩 Why work in climate tech?
- 🌉 Toucan <-> @regen_network bridge launched

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💡 What are the Core Carbon Principles?

The Core Carbon Principles by @ic_vcm provide a benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits.

Why are the CCPs important, where are bottlenecks, and how can digital solutions help enhance their impact? We dive in🤿

http://blog.toucan.earth/core-carbon-principles/

🛠️ Why work in Climate Tech?

The climate tech industry is a rapidly growing field with unique opportunities to make a meaningful impact. We explore:
- what climate tech is
- who can work in climate
- why blockchains⛓️ are key to scale impact

http://blog.toucan.earth/climate-tech

🌉  Toucan 🤝 @regen_network

Toucan's new carbon bridge to Regen Network allows tokenized carbon credits to flow freely between Toucan's infrastructure on @0xPolygon & @CeloOrg and Regen Network's eco-registry in the @cosmos ecosystem

https://blog.toucan.earth/toucan-regen-network-bridging-carbon-credits/

Also in #ReGenerate

🎧 Listens and reads we love
📰 Top Carbon news
💼 Jobs in Carbon & ReFi

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ReGenerate: Digital VCM Newsletter

Curious about Regenerative Finance (or #ReFi)?

Here's a quick 🧵 to help you understand this alternative economic system better.

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Regenerative Finance (or #ReFi) is the idea and a novel term for an inclusive financial system that values re-distributing resources for the benefit of communities, ecosystems, and the environment 🌴 👥 🐜

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Why should you care about ReFi?

ReFi is an exciting & welcoming space with a lot of opportunities to contribute

Climate-conscious people with a financial or tech background can come together to work on something meaningful 🤝

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Here's how @gitcoin co-founder @owocki defines #ReFi 👇

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The ideas behind ReFi aren't new
Great thinkers, economists, and philosophers have long thought about traits for a more just & sustainable economy

Ideas go from Silvio Gesell's Freigeld and the Sacred Economics concept by @ceisenstein to the Donut Model by @KateRaworth

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Let's do a quick comparison of conventional and regenerative economic systems:

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ReFi can transform the way we view & leverage money

In a #ReFi system, economic activity benefits all participants, instead of

⛔ Extracting resources in an unsustainable way
⛔ Distributing profits unfairly or to only to select few
⛔ Ignoring the value of living ecosystems

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Blockchain networks and smart contracts are advanced tools that help us make ReFi possible.

We can program transactions to fairly reward key actors and redirect resources to those who need them most, while holding all participants publicly accountable

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Ever wondered how blockchains operate? Here's a simple breakdown

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Why does the ReFi movement emerge now? 📆

People are becoming more and more aware of issues of inequality, exploitation, and unsustainable industrial practices.

Over the last few decades, the limits of many elements of the world's economic models have become apparent 📈

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ReFi offers the theoretical framework as well as advanced tooling to address these limitations and challenges

Additionally, #Web3 and #DeFi (Decentralized Finance) have emerged over the last years, paving the way for ReFi to come into existence


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Web3 is a movement and set of design principles that revolutionizes digital spaces and the way we interact with the internet 💻

Web3 is user-centric, decentralized, and transparent, and can be used by anyone – regardless of background, nationality, or other factors

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Web3 applications take many different shapes, like
💳 decentralized financial services
📲democratic digital governance
🚎 digital public goods
🌐 open games and interconnected virtual worlds

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And what is #DeFi?
DeFi (Decentralized Finance), has emerged out of Web3, and it is a new, accessible, and inclusive financial system with peer-to-peer services

Companies and middlemen (ie banks) are replaced with decentralized software applications and smart contracts

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ReFi — or Regenerative Finance — has evolved out of DeFi. It builds on the principles of its predecessor and interweaves them with theories and approaches from regenerative economics

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Early use cases of ReFi include designing novel ways to fund public goods (like open-source software) and tokenizing environmental assets (like carbon credits) so they can be used in DeFi applications (like DEXes)

But ReFi is also rapidly expanding in other directions

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Some examples:
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Universal basic income (UBI) (ie. @proofofhumanity)
💰 Local currencies (ie @SEEDSeconomy)
🌿 Natural capital-backed assets (ie @CeloOrg's  Mento stablecoin)
🎲 No-loss gambling (ie @PoolTogether_)
🏠 Public goods (ie via @gitcoin quadratic funding)

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This is how @cryptowanderer defines ReFi 👇

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And here are a few inspiring #ReFi personalities we love 💚
@annalerner, @ntnsndr, @GabrielaChang17, @gregory_landua, @HelenaMerk, @RegenRene, @serota, @marcjohnson518
@0xthembi, @stenverjerkku, @JessicaZartler
@BenWest, @ohmygong and @W_Alasdair

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Want to learn more about ReFi?
Read our full piece here: blog.toucan.earth/what-is-refi-regenerative-finance/

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Understanding Regenerative Finance (ReFi)

#ReGenerate is our fortnightly newsletter covering everything you need to know about the Digital VCM (#DVCM).

In this edition:

- 🤩 Building on @CeloOrg just became easier
- 👋 Meet @carbonlinkio founder @greymoit
- 🔖 Blockchain's benefits for the VCM

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👋 @GigaHierz supports @CeloOrg builders

Dev advocate Lena helps you build climate-impact products on the Celo blockchain. She has a background in front-end engineering & is passionate about fostering diversity among developers in the blockchain space

https://blog.toucan.earth/build-on-celo/

👋 Carbon for Corporates with @carbonlinkio

Carbonlink founder @greymoit speaks about the value of tokenized carbon credits, the digital VCM, and his journey into the #ReFi space

https://blog.toucan.earth/carbonlink/

🔖 Blockchain's benefits for the VCM

A recent study looks into blockchain-based carbon exchanges and how they can address intermediation costs, information asymmetry, and other VCM pain points

https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=129083126005068123030073118103007095096092003080021035106065116064096114007070068092058101033063106015039004073007123008017098014017056066076093024005085099119070064020091097113113097003086083095084120103123014126114108080110095007124121086087080004&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE


Also in #ReGenerate

🎧 A @Bloomberg podcast we love

📰 Top Carbon news

💼 Jobs in Carbon & ReFi

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Are you a climate-conscious Web3 builder or founder?
We've got exciting news for you: We've just deployed our carbon retirement module to the @CeloOrg ecosystem 🌎

What this means for #devs, founders, and the planet

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In August 2022, we launched a Carbon Bridge from @0xPolygon to the @CeloOrg blockchain

This bridge allows users to move carbon reference tokens $NCT and $BCT conveniently from @0xPolygon to @CeloOrg

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Did you know?
@CeloOrg is a carbon-negative and permissionless layer-1 protocol that aims to create a more inclusive global financial system, with a focus on providing the technological primitives and building blocks to create a regenerative economy

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Now we have 🎉BIG NEWS!🎉

We just launched the carbon retirement module on @CeloOrg blockchain! This means you can now easily retire carbon credits, track your climate impact, and share it with on-chain transparency.

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And founders and builders can integrate carbon credit retirements into their products and application to automate climate action and help scale positive impact on the planet 💚 🌏

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Carbon credit retirements are where real climate action happens. This action essentially refers to taking tons of carbon permanently out of the atmosphere (or supporting projects that help avoid emissions)

Leveraged right, they can aid humanity in addressing climate change 👍

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What this means for Celo builders & users
✅ More opportunities to create products that accelerate climate action on the @CeloOrg blockchain

✅ Attracting new climate tech to join the @CeloOrg ecosystem

✅ Unlocking retirements on mobile phones w Celo dapps, ie @ValoraApp

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Now, some action steps for you 🔥🚀
1️⃣ Try retiring carbon credits 💰

Tutorial here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BPck0uoMIU

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2️⃣ Join the Twitter space with @johnx25bd our Head of Ecosystem, and @RegenRen President at Celo Foundation to learn more.

https://twitter.com/CeloOrg/status/1637914933563203587

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3️⃣ Apply for a grant: If you have an idea or a project that uses our retirement on @CeloOrg you can apply for a grant.

We'll share more information on this soon. Leave your details in the form below 👇 and we'll get them right into your inbox!

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Carbon Retirement Module Deployed to Celo Ecosystem

#ReGenerate is our fortnightly newsletter covering everything you need to know about the Digital VCM (#DVCM).

In this edition:

- 📙 What is Regenerative Finance (#ReFi)?
- 🤩 Carbon retirements now possible on @CeloOrg blockchain
- 👣 A stroll through Toucans history

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❓What is ReFi?

We're exploring this transparent, accessible & inclusive alternative to our financial system. How does it look now, and which avenues can it open for a more just and sustainable future?

Read the full explainer here 👇
https://blog.toucan.earth/what-is-refi-regenerative-finance/

🥳 Carbon retirements on @CeloOrg

Celo users can now conveniently retire carbon credits directly from their mobile phones. And protocols can embed climate action in every transaction. We'll chat about carbon retirements for climate action & more!

https://blog.toucan.earth/carbon-retirements-on-celo/

https://twitter.com/CeloOrg/status/1637914933563203587

🔖A stroll through history

What happens when you use new technology to address the biggest coordination failure of our time: the climate crisis? Our Co-Founder and CEO @raphabenoi talks about Toucans history, lessons learned, and the path forward.

https://blog.toucan.earth/toucan-history/

🪙 Crypto is good for the climate

Blockchain ⛓️  tech is often criticized for its negative impact on the environment. Blockchains can be energy hogs, but there are also countless movements toward making the crypto space more sustainable.

We dive in 👇
https://blog.toucan.earth/crypto-is-good-for-the-planet/

Also in #ReGenerate

🎧 Reads & listens we love

📰 Top Carbon news

💼 Jobs in Carbon & ReFi

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