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About KlimaDAO
- KlimaDAO is building a transparent, neutral, and public Digital Carbon Market to accelerate climate finance globally.
- In 2022, KlimaDAO traded over $4 billion worth of carbon credit trade and grew treasury assets to over $100 million.
- KlimaDAO powers platforms like Carbonmark and works with organizations like Polygon, Circle, and the Liechtenstein Bankers Association.
- KlimaDAO was founded in 2021 by a group of individuals from three competing organizations.
- KlimaDAO has grown to assemble the talents of over 50 contributors and over 100,000 KLIMA token holders.
- In 2022, KlimaDAO launched its carbon retirement aggregator,
Introducing KlimaDAO: A Beacon of Hope in the Fight Against Climate Change
KlimaDAO is pioneering the development of a transparent, impartial, and publicly accessible Digital Carbon Market, poised to revolutionize climate finance on a global scale.
In 2022, KlimaDAO facilitated a staggering $4 billion in carbon credit transactions, concurrently bolstering its treasury assets to a remarkable $100 million.
Who utilizes KlimaDAO? As the foundational infrastructure for the Digital Carbon Market, KlimaDAO empowers platforms like Carbonmark, the universal carbon market, and collaborates with esteemed organizations such as Polygon, Circle, and the Liechtenstein Bankers Association to facilitate the attainment of sustainability objectives for a diverse range of entities, including airlines, automotive companies, banks, Web3 projects, and individuals, notably Mark Cuban.
A brief history of KlimaDAO: Founded in 2021, KlimaDAO was the brainchild of a group of visionaries from three rival organizations, who had been striving to address the inherent flaws in the traditional Voluntary Carbon Market. United by a shared mission, these core contributors pooled their diverse expertise – spanning carbon markets, technology, and business strategy and execution – to tackle the bottlenecks hindering the global scaling of climate finance.
KlimaDAO has since evolved to harness the collective expertise of more than 50 contributors, with a thriving community of over 100,000 KLIMA token holders.
In 2022, KlimaDAO unveiled its pioneering carbon retirement aggregator, empowering individuals and organizations to seamlessly offset their carbon footprints without permission. Notably, the Polygon Network was among the early adopters, leveraging KlimaDAO’s infrastructure to retire an impressive 100,000 digital carbon credits, thereby achieving carbon neutrality. This commitment to sustainability has earned Polygon the trust of esteemed brands such as Instagram, Nike, and Bentley, which have chosen to build upon its eco-friendly foundation.
In March 2023, Carbonmark debuted as the premier platform for acquiring, trading, and retiring digital carbon, providing a seamless ‘Web 2.5’ user experience that facilitates institutional access to tens of millions of carbon credits, as well as KlimaDAO’s digital carbon infrastructure, all without incurring additional fees.
Carbonmark has formed a strategic partnership with Circle, empowering institutions to safely store digital carbon credits and seamlessly exchange USD for USDC, thereby facilitating effortless purchases on the Carbonmark platform.
In this manner, Carbonmark serves as the gateway to the Digital Carbon Market, providing a seamless, barrier-free interface to interact with KlimaDAO’s infrastructure, thereby facilitating the scaling up of climate finance flows to projects that are actively combating climate change.
KlimaDAO’s operational framework is rooted in its pioneering approach, which introduces a market for real-world assets (RWAs) – specifically, carbon credits – leveraging DeFi 2.0 mechanics to establish a scalable and sustainable foundation for the ReFi (regenerative finance) ecosystem, underpinned by protocol-owned liquidity.
This has empowered KlimaDAO to facilitate the bridging of over 25 million carbon credits onto the blockchain, with 18 million of these credits being held in the KlimaDAO treasury. By migrating to the blockchain, these digital carbon credits transcend the inefficiencies of traditional carbon markets, leveraging the benefits of transparency, liquidity, and seamless integration with a diverse range of applications spanning both Web2 and Web3 ecosystems.
KlimaDAO introduces the KLIMA token, empowering users to source and retire tokenized carbon credits, exert influence over the KlimaDAO protocol’s governance, mitigate the risk of ecosystem inflation, develop innovative applications, and reap the benefits of KlimaDAO’s protocol-owned liquidity.