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Atmospheric carbon has at little regard for international borders, but neither do cryptocurrencies. This can be a source of strength for both markets.
Business model
Our business model is built on other successful economic models that transact with developing world labor en masse including:
Like the previous business cases, we rely on the conjunction of autonomous developing-world labor, informed consent, and emerging technologies.
"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it." — Dale Carnegie
The promise of is distributed benefits. Innovations like smart contracts, cyptocurrencies, DeFi, and digital ledgers, crowdsource autonomous employment. Web 3 technologies make it possible for the planet's largest global entities to transact fairly and equitably with the smallest and most vulnerable for the mutual benefit of all.
In carbon offset tracking, Web3 enables transactions that could not be done anywhere else. This solves two massive global problems simultaneously:
Regional preservation cannot succeed without the economic empowerment of smallfarmer stakeholders.
Offset tracking must eliminate middlemen while remaining scientifically valid and transparent to all.
We pay a $5 USD signup fee for each farmer with validation of property ownership directly into their international bank account in their local currency at registration.
If farmers choose to be paid in crypto then they can be paid directly into digital wallets for a 50% reduced transaction fee.
If farmers wish to delegate payee they may do so at signup.
We make monthly micropayments for conserved and reforested land.
We pay a fair-trade market floor price pegged to the low-end global rate for offsets of similar quality, and 25% of any pricing above floor that we receive from offset sales.
Project staff is 50/50 Savimbo consultants and local landowners. We require farmers to reforest with us to participate in the program but train and employ staff from partnering autonomous entities to procure seedlings, monitor conservation zones, and replant. Farmers are paid at half staff-rate as training days but may find continued work as consultants once their farm is planted.
We have an intentionally simple economic model. Our background in has informed our belief that simple interventions are more effective in complex systems (see):
..."the characteristics of a simple intervention: it would have a single implementing organization; a single causal strand; one universal mechanism to explain effects; linear causality with proportional impact; and outcomes that are pre-identified." DeCoste and Puri. , 2019
We pay incrementally more for biochar addition, Indigenous owners, proof of animal life, forest regrowth, or traditional medicinal plants (see ).
The Savimbo Project is led by , a 300-person consulting group of high-IQ "delinquent-savants" who develop high-tech to solve hard scientific and social problems. Its sister nonprofit, subsidizes farmers to participate in the market through literacy programs, technology micro-grants, advocacy, and translation services. It provides Web3 services via autonomous entities in UAE (digital ledger) and Switzerland (token issuance and tokeomics). Finally, the project creates, and partners with autonomous entities managed by DAOs representative of Indigenous, and smallholder collectives managing autonomously-held micropreservation zones (see ).