Empowering Communities Through Tokenised Forest Conservation Offerings

Why Use Blockchain?

Using a crypto token with a real-world asset instead of a traditional equity share structure offers several advantages, including increased liquidity and global access, reduced transaction costs, faster transactions, and enhanced transparency due to blockchain technology. Tokens provide flexibility with programmable features, enable decentralized governance, and facilitate innovative financial products through asset tokenization. Additionally, tokens help build and engage a community, and align incentives with project success, making them a more efficient and inclusive approach to financing and managing projects.

Increased Liquidity: Ecotokens can be traded, providing liquidity that is often higher than traditional equity shares.
Global Access: Ecotokens can be bought and sold by investors worldwide, making it easier to attract a larger pool of investors.
Lower Barriers to Entry: Ecotokens make investing accessible to a broader audience, including those who cannot afford traditional shares.

Reduced Transaction Costs: Blockchain technology can reduce the costs associated with issuing and trading shares, such as fees for brokers and other intermediaries.
Faster Transactions: Transactions can be completed more quickly compared to the traditional stock market, where settlement times can take several days.
Enhanced Transparency: Blockchain’s immutable ledger ensures transparency in transactions and ownership, reducing the risk of fraud

Programmable Tokens: FEET EcoTokens can have built-in features like dividends, voting rights, or other governance mechanisms, providing more flexibility than traditional shares.
Decentralized Governance: EcoToken holders can participate in decentralized decision-making processes, creating a more democratic and inclusive governance structure.
Asset Tokenization: Tokenised Real World Assets (RWA) allow for digital representational ownership of physical assets or the ability to integrate with decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.

Community Building: EcoTokens can be used to build and incentivize a community around a project, encouraging participation and loyalty.
Incentive Alignment: EcoToken holders are often more engaged with the project’s success, as the value of their tokens is directly tied to the project’s performance.

Indonesia Conservation Ecosystem (ICE)

Our dedicated ICE team is at the heart of the Forest Edge Project, bringing together expertise in sustainability, project development, and community engagement.

To bring forth a better world of forestry management, the ICE team knew they had to integrate theory and practice, applying what they learned in their decades in expert positions in Indonesia. After identifying key barriers to adoption, the ICE team set out to build the next generation of forest management economics using blockchain technology.

If the Forest Edge Project achieves good results, ICE will expand into other sustainable environmental opportunities. Initiatives currently under consideration include:

- Cooperation with oil & gas block operators in Sumatra to restore peatland and other natural forest conditions that have been degraded due to oil & gas production activities.
- Expanding ICE management into other forestry concessions near the Forest Edge Project
- Securing a role in a forest management project associated with renewable energy generation that is now under discussion with the Malaysian Government.

Bret Mattes

Chief Sustainability Officer

Tom Shreve

Project Development Lead

Luke Rowe

Project Management

Andrew Campbell

Project Management