The ReFi Recap: Understanding VeChain's ReFi ecosystem

Happy Friday!

Two quick comments on a couple of news items this week.

1) Azos Finance launches incentivised testnet

In our opinion, Azos is one of the more interesting pre-launch projects in the ReFi space. On the surface, it's a protocol that will support the launch of a stablecoin ($ZAI) backed by on-chain impact assets. But what we're excited about is that users need to deposit impact assets in order to mint $ZAI. For the first time, we may see on-chain demand pressure for impact assets like solar plant ownership NFTs (and the requisite verification/valuation layers that come with it).

2) ReFi Hub pays out first yield to investors in Brazilian solar project

We shouldn't understate the importance of a ReFi project delivering on its regenerative aspirations. In this case, using the revenue generated by a solar plant to pay out yield to retail investors. This is the dream right here: facilitating capital from investors to regenerative projects and back. We will need a lot more of this if we ever hope to fill the massive climate funding gap.

Trinity Morphy takes a closer look at VeChain's sustainability arm, VeBetterDAO, and asks why it has been so successful attracting nascent ReFi projects.

Opening the Lid on VeChain's VeBetterDAO

Trinity Morphy explains the rise of ReFi in the VeChain ecosystem, what makes it so attractive, and what challenges lay ahead.

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• SeaTrees to launch 300,000 marine biodiversity credits on Regen Network

• ClimateCoin launches footprint calculator and earnings mechanism Planetpoints

• ecoToken introduces bio blinks on Solana to restore endangered land

• VeBetterDAO launches live sustainability impact dashboard to track on-chain sustainability actions

• Pause Your Carbon - Works with Carboneers and farming communities in India and Ghana to sequester carbon and remediate soils.

• Mugshot - Rewards your eco-friendly coffee habits with snaps and perks.

• Carus - Makes recycling seamless with instant rewards through the power of stablecoins.

• CleanApp - A global coordination game for waste and hazard mapping.

• 📖 OceanBlocks Newsletter: The EU's stance for COP29

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The number of ecological credits verified and issued on-chain by Open Forest Protocol's open credit methodology.

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