GainForest May 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain.xyz New Updates: We’re adding a reviews section, integrating Divvi to track user transactions, and adding a changelog route. View documentation on GitHub 💡 Research Updates Impact Evaluation Our team is co-leading DeepGov experiments for Gitcoin Gra…
GainForest March/April 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates 1. Ecocertain.xyz We’re continuously improving the features of our ecocerts marketplace, such as attestations functionality and UI. View our documentation on GitHub . As of April, our communities have received a total of 6,081 USD donations through ecocerts. As…
GainForest March/April 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates 1. Ecocertain.xyz We’re continuously improving the features of our ecocerts marketplace, such as attestations functionality and UI. View our documentation on GitHub . As of April, our communities have received a total of 6,081 USD donations through ecocerts. As…
GainForest March/April 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates 1. Ecocertain.xyz We’re continuously improving the features of our ecocerts marketplace, such as attestations functionality and UI. View our documentation on GitHub . As of April, our communities have received a total of 6,081 USD donations through ecocerts. As…
GainForest March/April 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates ## 1. Ecocertain.xyz We’re continuously improving the features of our ecocerts marketplace, such as attestations functionality and UI. View our documentation on GitHub . As of April, our communities have received a total of 6,081 USD donations through ecocerts.…
GainForest February 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain.xyz We've officially launched Ecocertain - a hypercerts marketplace for GainForest and our community partners across the globe working on environmental conservation. In its first month, we have received a total of 300 USD donations from 22 buyers! 🌏…
GainForest February 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain.xyz We've officially launched Ecocertain - a hypercerts marketplace for GainForest and our community partners across the globe working on environmental conservation. In its first month, we have received a total of 300 USD donations from 22 buyers! 🌏…
GainForest February 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain.xyz We've officially launched Ecocertain - a hypercerts marketplace for GainForest and our community partners across the globe working on environmental conservation. In its first month, we have received a total of 300 USD donations from 22 buyers! 🌏…
GainForest January 2025 Updates
🌱 GainForest Vision We're excited to share our updated GainForest Vision . In this essay, we explore how regenerative intelligence (RI) offers a pathway to scale Ostrom's principles of commons governance, and RI-enabled approaches like Conservation Data Income (CDI) and Sustaina…
We won the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize!
We’re thrilled to announce we won the XPRIZE RainForest Bonus Prize ! 🏆 Out of 298 teams worldwide, our work at gainforest and ethbiodivx proved that decentralized and equitable science is the future of rainforest conservation. This groundbreaking achievement shows what’s possib…
GainForest June 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain.xyz Ecocertain Rewards : Supported by the Celo Support Stream, we're running a small, recurring funding round for ecocerts minted on Ecocertain. View details here 💡 Research Updates Impact Evaluation DeepGov in Conferences: Our team presented DeepGo…
GainForest July 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates Ecocertain New Updates: We're enhancing the marketplace experience with USDGLO currency integration (now default), more powerful and efficient homepage searching, and bug fixes with improvements to the Ecocert Purchase flow. Successfully completed Celo's Proof…
GainForest August/September 2025 Updates
🚀 Product Updates 1. Ecocertain.xyz We've enhanced Ecocertain.xyz with several key improvements this quarter, including support for Farcaster wallets to broaden accessibility, UI refinements across the platform for an improved user experience, and resolution of a bug affecting t…
2025 | The Nature Guild Creation
Establish the foundational governance structure and community ecosystem to support decentralized conservation efforts through the Nature Guild Deliverable Description Governance Framework Develop structure, decision-making processes, and membership criteria Onboarding Resources C…
2025 | Science & Community Engagement
Strengthen scientific foundations and community involvement through field deployment, education, and collaborative knowledge exchange Deliverable Description Tainá/Polly Implementation Deploy Tainá in Amazonian university classes and Polly in COP30 Biodiversity Workshops Combine…
2025 | Ecocerts Enhancement
Advance the Ecocerts platform with improved user experience, seamless Web3 integration, and community funding mechanisms Deliverable Description Ecocerts Authentication Implement Privy for email/phone registration with Web3 wallet creation Green Globe Authentication Implement sea…
2025 | Technical Infrastructure & Privacy
Build robust technical infrastructure for conservation data management with privacy-preserving technologies and secure verification systems Deliverable Description Analytics Dashboard Track wallets, communities, funds, and Hypercerts on the Green Globe EAS Indexer Create custom v…
More financial and environmental visualizations.
At least 5 new environmental visualizations (insights) - turning raw data into something meaningful. Motives for financial transactions will be attested for in the Green Globe. Anyone will be able to see why we paid communities.
Document and share knowledge.
At least 5 new blog posts where we share learnings and challenges from the field.
Preparation for the XPRIZE Rainforest Finals
Co-creation with an indigeneous community in Brazil. Technology developed for the XPRIZE will be directly applicable to our work towards giving communities the tools to do their own decentralized MRV.
Creation of a "Community Data Council".
Open call from all community members and projects to nominate representatives to talk about data concerns. Round-table discussions on data privacy and data ownership. Co-designing our data policy. We're aiming to have at least one representative from each continent.
Launch Hypercerts Platform v1
Exploring Hypercerts for Nature Stewards
We explored the use of Hypercerts as a tool for our community partners who are nature stewards. This included discussions with VoiceDeck to understand how they are adopting Hypercerts for journalists. The concept was introduced during two of our monthly community calls, followed…
Deploy Polly: AI assistant for climate negotiators
One of Polly’s major goals is to make it easier for local and global decision-makers to incorporate IPLCs perspectives into environmental policy. This year, in 2024, we will continue to deploy Polly in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP29 in Ba…
Bug Fixing, Maintainence and Upgrades
For this milestone, we have the following updates we are gonna push to Ecocertain: Fix some issues related to the payment flows where the amount selection dialog just keeps telling "Insufficient Funds" even if the usesr has funds. Add support for multiple currencies; In…
Attest all transactions
All financial transactions will be referenced in a Celo attestation expressing the motive of the transaction, and displayed on the Green Globe.
100 additional "Conservation Data Income" payments using Celo (Valora)
Community members receive Conservation Data Income by collecting environmental data (audio recordings, drone flights, contributing insights to "Taina", our friendly telegram bot). They are paid for their work - 1 cent per audio minute, 5 cents per MB of drone data, and…
Launch Hypercerts Platform v1
Impact Verification System
GainForest Data Upload integration Satellite monitoring API connection ZKMail verification implementation
User Interfaces
Project application portal Donor contribution interface Impact tracking dashboard Administrative tools
Documentation & Open Source
Technical specifications API documentation Integration guides Code repository publication
Promote funding Impactful Regenerative Projects
Ecocertain is an impact-first initiative dedicated to saving nature and supporting those who do. The core idea of this platform revolves around showcasing and managing what we call Ecocerts. Ecocerts are hypercerts with a special eco-purpose—that is, hypercerts that represent env…
Promote funding Impactful Regenerative Projects
Ecocertain is an impact-first initiative dedicated to saving nature and supporting those who do. The core idea of this platform revolves around showcasing and managing what we call Ecocerts. Ecocerts are hypercerts with a special eco-purpose—that is, hypercerts that represent env…
Promote funding Impactful Regenerative Projects
Ecocertain is an impact-first initiative dedicated to saving nature and supporting those who do. The core idea of this platform revolves around showcasing and managing what we call Ecocerts. Ecocerts are hypercerts with a special eco-purpose—that is, hypercerts that represent env…
Promote funding Impactful Regenerative Projects
Ecocertain is an impact-first initiative dedicated to saving nature and supporting those who do. The core idea of this platform revolves around showcasing and managing what we call Ecocerts. Ecocerts are hypercerts with a special eco-purpose—that is, hypercerts that represent env…
Promote funding Impactful Regenerative Projects
Ecocertain is an impact-first initiative dedicated to saving nature and supporting those who do. The core idea of this platform revolves around showcasing and managing what we call Ecocerts. Ecocerts are hypercerts with a special eco-purpose—that is, hypercerts that represent env…
Proof of Impact
In our dApp, we use attestations for for the project owner to attest proof of impact to a project the feature where users can come over and add a review for a project We plan to add the following features to the dApp: increase the authenticity of an attestation by displaying if t…
Improve Transparency
Our milestones for the month: Add a transfer feature for all the fractions of the ecocerts that you own. This would let you add the recipient address and the fraction you wanna transfer. Hit the transfer button, sign the transaction and you are done! Integrate Self.xyz to verify…
Quality Improvements and Maintainence
This month, we are pushing some quality improvements to Ecocertain: Fix a bug where the transaction to buy an ecocert mostly fail. Refine some texts throughout the app that feel more useful and improve user experience. Refine the sales section on a hypercert page, allowing you to…
Bumicerts Homepage & Onboarding Flow Redesign
Redesign Bumicerts' homepage and onboarding flow to a UI that intuitively guides Nature Stewards to create Bumicerts and Donors to fund impact, verified through public demo → Accepted when deployed on mainnet with public demo, supported by analytics dashboard showing measurable i…
Bumicerts Cross-Chain Swap Integration
Integrate bridge/swap functionality into the Bumicerts app, enabling Donors to swap funds from any EVM chain to Celo directly within the purchase flow without using external swapping applications → Accepted when deployed on mainnet and verified through block explorer showing succ…
Platform Integration Completion
Complete Ecocerts v2 with full synchronization between Ecocertain and Green Globe platforms, single sign-in, data upload feature, multiple payment options, and ATProto migration.
User Experience Enhancement
For project owners: Improve submit page for minting ecocerts to make the process more intuitive for local communities.
Quality Framework & Standards
Establish data standards for tree data aligned with GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) standards. Implement feedback mechanisms on data standards focusing specifically on tree data through community engagement.
Completion Allocation
Final payout upon full completion and KPIs submission
Onboarded 4 New Community Partners
We welcomed four new community partners: Bula Garden Tanzania, Blue Carbon Tanzania, Darukaa Earth, and Climatica Foundation. As on-the-ground nature stewards, we’re happy to support them with decentralized science, equitable tech, and Web3 funding opportunities.
Monthly Environmental dMRV Skill-Sharing Calls
We conduct monthly community calls where our community members can share knowledge from in the field. September 30th 2024: In our September Community Call, Oceanus Conservation from the Philippines shared their experience deploying AudioMoths to collect bioacoustic data. This was…
Bioacoustics data collection with Oceanus
We trained four field officers from Oceanus Conservation on deploying AudioMoths for bioacoustic data collection in Cagwait, Philippines. The field officers shared their knowledge with local fishermen, teaching them to use the devices effectively. The fishermen, in return, provid…
Created Impact Trace
We developed Impact Trace, a tool that allows community partners to create polygons of their conservation sites. To support its use, we created a tutorial video, which was shared during the November Community Call to help partners understand how to use the tool effectively.
Created Platforms for Friends of GainForest
We created platforms to engage individuals outside the nature stewardship community, including those in decentralized science and Web3. A collaborative hub was set up to consolidate existing resources. Members are encouraged to share additional resources, such as off-ramping stra…
