You already know the problem.

You organize a cleanup. Twenty people show up at 7am. They spend three hours on a beach, a riverbank, a highway median. They fill forty bags. They are exhausted and proud and they go home.

A week later someone asks: did it make a difference?

And you have photos. You have a group chat full of sweaty selfies. You might have a spreadsheet with approximate kilograms. But you have no proof that holds up - nothing an institution can verify, nothing that qualifies for funding, nothing that travels beyond your community's memory of the day.

The cleanup happened. But in every system that matters - grant databases, carbon registries, municipal sustainability reports, ESG disclosures - it did not happen. There is no record.

This is not a documentation problem. It is a power problem. The people doing the most environmental work have the least say in where environmental money flows. Not because their work isn't real. Because it isn't legible to the systems that distribute resources.

DeCleanup Network is the infrastructure to change that. This is why you should join, what you should do, and what governance actually means for people like you.

Until now, environmental proof has been produced by institutions. A company hires a third-party auditor. A registry certifies a project. The paperwork moves between organizations, and somewhere at the end of the chain, a credit is issued that represents something that may or may not have happened on the ground.

The people who actually picked up the trash were inputs to that system, not participants in it. They provided the labor. They did not get the proof. They certainly did not get the governance.

DeCleanup Network reverses this.

Every cleanup you do on the platform produces an onchain impact record - geotagged, timestamped, AI-reviewed, community-verified. The record is yours. It follows your wallet address. Every 10 verified cleanups, it accumulates into a Hypercert: a living, structured impact record built on AT Protocol that captures who did the work, what was collected, when, and where - growing richer as measurements and evidence attach to it over time. You can use it in grant applications, share it with funders, attach it to project proposals, or simply hold it as verifiable evidence of what you did.

Nobody issues it to you. You earn it by doing the work. The proof is yours.

You are the foundation of this network. Everything else - the governance, the funding pools, the institutional credibility - is built on the premise that real people are doing real cleanups and that the record of those cleanups means something.

Here is what joining looks like in practice:

Go to dapp.decleanup.net. Connect a wallet or sign in with Google or email - no crypto experience needed, no gas fees. When you do a cleanup, take before and after photos on location. Submit them with your GPS coordinates and an estimate of what you collected. The AI reviews it. The community verifies it. An onchain impact record - Impact Product - is minted and it’s growing level by level. You earn network points for all the actions, even for sharing the link to the app and encouraging friends to join. 

Upon earning points, you can claim $cDCU - not a points token, not a loyalty reward, but governance weight over a real funding pool. More on that below.

That is the loop. Do the work. Prove the work. Build the record. Hold the power.

You are the multiplier. A single organizer who brings twenty people to a beach and runs a proper cleanup with documentation is worth more to the network than twenty individual submissions - because organized cleanups produce higher-quality evidence, cover larger areas, and can be linked to specific ecosystems and recurring impact over time.

DeCleanup Network is building coordinator tools specifically for you: campaign creation, team management, bulk submission review, aggregate impact reporting. If you run a cleanup program - monthly, seasonal, or event-based - the platform can generate a documented impact record for every event in your history.

This is what makes the difference when you go to a municipality and ask for support, or apply for a grant, or approach a corporate sponsor. You are not asking them to trust your word. You are showing them a verifiable, onchain record of every cleanup your community has done, with photos, coordinates, and independent verification attached.

That changes the conversation entirely.

You have been doing environmental work for years, possibly decades. You have impact. What you often lack is the proof infrastructure to make that impact legible to funders who increasingly require it.

The regulatory environment is shifting fast. EU CSRD is in force. Greenwashing bans are law. Results-based funding - where payment is conditional on verified outcomes - is becoming the norm, not the exception. Funders who used to accept annual reports and site visits are now asking for real-time, independently auditable evidence.

DeCleanup Network is that infrastructure. You do not have to build it yourself. You plug into an open-source protocol that produces the proof format funders are beginning to require - and you own the records it generates.

There is no fee to join. No platform lock-in. No proprietary database that holds your impact data hostage. Everything is onchain, open, and yours.

This is the part most people skip over. It matters more than anything else in this document.

Every action on the platform gets you points and constant activity increases your multiplier for $cDCU. When you hold 250 $cDCU, you have full governance voting rights over the DeCleanup Network funding pool on Gardens - a live pool of cUSD on Celo, seeded by an Ethereum for the World grant, will be distributed by conviction voting in early July.

Let's be precise about what that means.

The pool holds real money - $cUSD stablecoin. That money gets distributed to cleanup proposals. The proposals that receive funding are decided not by a committee, not by a foundation, not by donors - but by $cDCU holders voting with conviction.

Conviction voting works like this: you allocate your voting weight to proposals you believe in. The longer you support a proposal, the more conviction it builds. When conviction reaches the threshold, the pool releases funding directly to the proposal creator's wallet. No approval process. No grant committee. No waiting six months for a decision.

If you have done verified cleanups, you have $cDCU. If you have $cDCU, you have a say in which cleanup initiatives get funded.

This is not symbolic governance. This is not a DAO where token holders vote on protocol parameters that affect nothing in the physical world. This is direct resource allocation for physical environmental work, controlled by the people doing that work.

An organizer in Nigeria who has run four verified campus cleanups has more governance weight than a crypto fund that has never touched a bin bag. That is the design. That is the point.

Environmental impact scales with the number of people producing verified records. One organizer with twenty participants produces twenty impact records. Twenty organizers with the same participants produce four hundred. The network effect is real and the math is simple.

But there is something more important than the numbers.

The credibility of any verification standard depends on the breadth and diversity of who is using it. A cleanup protocol that only has participants in wealthy countries is not a global environmental standard - it is a niche tool for a specific community. A protocol with verified cleanups across Japan, Nigeria, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, and Kenya is beginning to look like infrastructure.

Every organizer who joins from a new geography makes the network more credible to funders. Every NGO that plugs in their existing cleanup history adds weight to the verification standard. Every volunteer who submits their first cleanup is proof that the onboarding works for people who are not crypto-native.

When you spread the word - to your cleanup community, your NGO network, your local environmental group - you are not promoting a product. You are building the dataset that makes the verification standard trustworthy. You are expanding the governance base to include more of the people who should be in it.

The more diverse the $cDCU holders, the harder it is for any single actor to dominate the governance pool. The more verified cleanups in the record, the more credible the impact claims become. The more organizers running campaigns, the more funding proposals go into the pool - and the more money flows to real environmental work instead of paper certificates.

This is a network that gets more powerful the more people use it honestly. That is rare. It is worth building.

If you do cleanups: Go to dapp.decleanup.net. Sign in with Google, email or connect your wallet. Do your next cleanup and submit it. The whole process from submission to verified record takes less than 24 hours. Your first $cDCU will follow shortly after.

If you organize: Email support@decleanup.net or reach us on Telegram. Tell us about your program - how often you run events, roughly how many participants, what kind of waste you're collecting, where you operate. We will help you set up a campaign with proper dMRV documentation from the start. If you have historical cleanup records, bring them - we are working on a process to onboard verified historical data.

If you run an NGO: The same applies. Get in touch. The more established your existing impact record, the more value we can add immediately. We want to be the proof layer for organizations that have been doing the work for years and have never had the infrastructure to make it legible at scale.

If you are already in a Web3 or ReFi community: You probably know five to ten organizations doing real environmental work with no onchain presence. They are the ones who need this infrastructure most and are least likely to find it on their own. An introduction from someone they trust is worth more than any amount of protocol marketing.

We are at an early moment in the history of verifiable environmental infrastructure. The tools to produce cryptographic proof of physical action exist. The onchain rails to carry that proof globally exist. The governance mechanisms to distribute funding based on that proof exist.

What has not existed until now is a protocol that assembles all of it into something a non-crypto-native cleanup volunteer can use.

That is what we built. It is open source, it is live, and it is yours to use.

The cleanups you have been doing for years already mattered. Now they can be proven, funded, and governed - by you, not by institutions acting on your behalf.

That is a different world. Come build it.

Start here: dapp.decleanup.net Read the full protocol: decleanup.net/litepaper Governance pool: gardens.fund Get in touch: support@decleanup.net · Telegram - X - Farcaster