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ReFi Roundup #33: Senken launch, Greentrade raise, GR15 & biochar dMRV

John Dass

• 4 min read

Hey ReFi Nation! 👋

John Ellison here getting the ReFi Roundup over the line after another abundant week at the intersection of regeneration and web3. It's been a beauty.

Imagine this: Next time you read ReFi Roundup will be post-merge. 😱
Let's keep our fingers crossed and hopes all goes according to plan!

Here's a quick recap of what happened in ReFi this week, followed by a short stint of ReFi Bites and ReFi Events!

Carbon marketplace landscape 🔥

We've seen Adrian from Senken launch their carbon marketplace as well as Frederick from Greentrade announce their pre-seed led by Cerulean providing pressure on the carbon marketplace landscape.

Quadratic lands open up 🏞

GR15 kicked off with over $2.7M of match funding featuring 30 founders from the ReFi Summer cohort and a strong emphasis on digital measurement, reporting, and verification.

Biochar dMRV 📐

The largest carbon project developer, South Pole, and Carbonfuture partner to scale up biochar projects with digitised monitoring and reporting off the back of Verra's biochar methodology which seems to have boosted CDR market sentiment.

What is ReFi?

If you're just tuning into ReFi Roundup and are looking for a good primer on the subject, check out the latest episode from ReFi Podcast, as well as the listener favorite "Welcome to ReFi Podcast".

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ReFi Bites

Snippets of the best from ReFi Twitter and beyond

GR15 Launch Party! 🎵

Top undiscovered grant on GR15 💰

💰 Rainforest Monitoring Lab: Radical transparency for nature-based solutions with DeSci & Web3 | Grants
The rainforest monitoring lab is bringing together young engineers, students and scientist to contribute to an open and reproducible machine learning repository for rainforest monitoring. The models will then be used to transparently analyse carbon offset projects around the world and assess nature’…
💰 Rainforest Monitoring Lab: Radical transparency for nature-based solutions with DeSci & Web3 | Grants

Regenerative Village Building Handbook 📓

Cryptosapiens sneak peek 👀

BCT report released

Europe facing potential energy crisis of confidence

It's a long one, but helpful to understand the scale of the European energy grid, the complexity and contributing factors of the situation at hand!

ReFi Events

In-person and online events to get your ReFi on 🕺🏼🪩

ReFi Lisbon on Sep 12, hosted by Open Forest Protocol, Raiz and Arroz Estudios

If you didn't manage to get a ticket yet, you can still apply for a membership from Arroz Estudios (https://app.enrollmint.io/ enter "ReFi Lisbon") and bring 3 Euros to the door! Hope to see you there.

Twitter Spaces Monday Sep 12 10am PST

Berlin, Sep 16 & 17

CO2Cult Gitcoin Give-athon Sep 19

Climate Week Blockchain Summit Sep 20

ReFi Kenya, October 7

Check out the first ReFi event in Africa hosted by Kennedy and co. from Shamba Protocol! Such a great milestone for the ReFI movement!

Thank you!

Here's to all the founders, builders and investors who make ReFi possible.

Here's to you 🍻

Happy Merging—Quadratic Funding—whatever you're doing!