How do we know if ReFi is successful?

In other words, what metrics should we be using to describe its impact?

See, unlike decentralised finance (DeFi), where everything is on-chain and can easily be tracked in real-time, ReFi is a combination of on-chain and off-chain activity. The "impact" most often happens off-chain, which makes it harder to track.

It's not that there aren't options. Ecological credits issued and sold on-chain, amount invested in regenerative projects, and solar energy generated are but three. Some find them unhelpful and reductive, while others acknowledge they're the best we have.

The issue, we think, is trying to figure out whether to use the generally accepted metrics of ecological and social impact or create a new language of success that tries to encapsulate the regenerative economies at the heart of ReFi.

Next week on CARBON Copy, our very own Trinity Morphy details his search for the best way to quantify ReFi's impact.

Stay tuned!

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We've added the following projects to our ReFi project database:

• IXO World - Enables networks of people, organisations, AI agents, and physical devices to generate verifiable impacts, at an Internet-scale.

• Carbify - Offers the world's most impactful carbon offsets.

• Coorest - Allows you to compensate for your CO2 emissions instantly and effortlessly through its CO2 compensation.

• Glow Foundation - On a mission to power the planet with 100% renewable energy.

• DePINed Podcast: Scalable decentralised environmental networks

• AllinCrypto Podcast: Can crypto help to save the planet?

• GreenPill Network Podcast: Downstream grant programs

• ReFi Podcast: Democracy, Technology, and Plurality

• 📺 TED: Quadratic funding financing dreams

• 📺 World Economic Forum: Explaining biodiversity credits

• 📺 Web3 Lagos Conference: Unlocking Africa's solar energy potential with DePIN

• Progress Reports: Wasset and Ogallala Life

• Felix de Rosen: The need for bioregionalisation

The number of on-chain SupaMoto clean cookstove credits issued on the IXO World platform.

The SupaMoto Nifty is an innovative digital Impact Asset that finances the distribution of a Modern Energy Cookstove to families in Lusaka, Zambia. SupaMoto Nifty holders own the rights to receive a share of the carbon credits generated by a digitally-identified modern energy cookstove that is issued as part of a Collection of assets within a green, decentralised physical infrastructure network of devices.

Visit us at https://carboncopy.news to get more news, analysis, and data from the Web3 regenerative finance (ReFi) space.

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