ReFi Roundup #33: Senken launch, Greentrade raise, GR15 & biochar dMRV
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".
ReFi Bites
Snippets of the best from ReFi Twitter and beyond
GR15 Launch Party! 🎵
Top undiscovered grant on GR15 💰
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!