disCarbon © 2022
disCarbon
transparent & verifiable on-chain carbon retirement tools
purpose
provide easy-to-use apps that incentivize carbon emission compensation and drive value to planet positive projects
disCarbon makes retirements transparent and easily verifiable from a wide variety of carbon offset projects by leveraging on-chain carbon certificates
existing platforms
allow users to offset emissions for different use cases from curated carbon offset projects
problem
existing retirement solutions
- are expensive: considerable mark-up
- lack transparency: unclear calculation & retirement methods
- don't allow public verification of the retirement
- offer a limited set of carbon offset projects
solution
disCarbon allows
- access to carbon certificates at market price
- transparent calculation via open source methods
- choice of any tokenized carbon offset project
- public verification via on-chain transactions
- incentivized retirements via POAPs or NFTs
progress since launch, may 2022
august
- launched flight offsetter dapp v1
september
- deployed devcon VI event offsetter with POAP incentivization
october
- 227 users contributed >400 tCO2 via the devcon VI event offsetter
future plans
- onboard more event organizers
- generalize offsetting contract for other people to use
- incentivize offsetting with dynamic NFTs
- improve the flight offsetter user experience
- add climate, community & biodiversity ratings to ui
- develop a fun, educational emission offsetter
monetization and funding status
- our tools are public goods: github.com/disCarbon
- received a Toucan Developer Grant and participated in Gitcoin Grants Round 15
- OPEX are minimal (< $200 p.a.)
- on-chain carbon is growing: ample opportunities for transparent monetization