Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 156 - Kyoto - Leveraging DePIN to build a carbon negative, planet positive blockchain
In episode 156, we’re excited to welcome Ashton Hunt, Co-Founder of Kyoto, a Carbon Negative blockchain built to scale the voluntary carbon market and regenerative finance by harnessing the power of Web3. We dive into the world of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (Aka DePIN), the tokenization of real-world assets in support of climate solutions, leveraging blockchain to bring integrity to carbon markets, how they planted over one million trees in support of their efforts to become carbon negative, and much more!
Three Key Takeaways
To date, Kyoto has planted over one million trees and is aiming to decentralize tree planting efforts by making their technology available to local tree planters. This will help individuals and organizations monetize their tree planting efforts, bringing positive economic benefits to local communities.
Carbon markets have faced a lot of challenges lately, mostly due to a lack of transparency and traceability around carbon credits. Blockchain can help address this by bringing the assets on-chain, which will increase transparency, produce an immutable record of each credit’s provenance, and make them more accessible to the end user.
DePIN can be seen as an evolution of DeFi, in that it utilizes the same principles of decentralization and accessibility, while expanding these principles to broader use cases beyond finance including decentralized data networks, energy grids, or carbon markets.
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Episode Time Stamps
02:15 - What was your “Ah hah” moment that first got you excited about cryptocurrency and web3?
03:30 - On your website, the heading reads “A carbon negative, planet positive blockchain” which I believe captures the essence of Kyoto protocol perfectly. To kick things off, can you please give listeners an intro to Kyoto Protocol?
04:25 - DePIN, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure, has been a hot topic lately. What is DePIN, and how can it support the advancement of climate solutions?
07:20 - To date you have supported the planting of over 1 million trees! Tell me more about this initiative and how you made it happen.
09:45 - Carbon Markets have rightfully faced a lot of scrutiny lately. What are some of the challenges facing legacy carbon markets, and how can blockchain help address this?
13:10 - There has been a lot of exciting work in the field of tokenized real-world assets. How can builders leverage tokenized RWAs to support climate initiatives?
17:15 - How can blockchain help make climate data more reliable and accessible?
18:55 - Kyoto Protocol is closely aligned with the Regenerative Finance movement. I’d love to hear about some of the projects building in your ecosystem.
22:05 – What makes blockchain a powerful tool for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV)?
24:35 - I understand that Kyoto is governed by the Kyoto DAO – tell me more about the DAO and the architecture behind it.
27:20 - What kind of support do you offer to builders in terms of grants and onboarding support to build on Kyoto?
29:00 - What’s the best way for listeners to learn more about Kyoto Protocol?
30:00 - To wrap things up, if you could name one thing that excites you most about the social impact potential of web3, what would it be and why?
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