Market Analysis
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Our primary target audience includes:
Environmental Advocates: Individuals and organizations that are dedicated to environmental conservation and are looking for tangible ways to contribute to ecoProjects.
Corporate Entities: Businesses wanting to offset their carbon footprint, invest in sustainable projects, or showcase their commitment to environmental responsibility. Ideally they are looking for something more to show their customers than a claim of carbon neutrality.
Environmental Project Developers: Those seeking funding and support to bring their eco-friendly projects to life and to support existing operations.
We believe that ReFi sits in the middle of a $851 billion carbon market (Voluntary + Compulsory) and a $42 DeFi market that are both rapidly expanding. We estimate that ReFi will not only participate in the growth of these two markets but that the carbon market will naturally progress into ReFi through the tokenization of environmental credits and the expansion of decentralized science. This process makes sense when all of the benefits blockchain offers to the carbon credit market are considered.
Market Trends:
Growing Emphasis on Sustainability: As climate change intensifies, there's a global shift towards sustainable practices, driving demand for environmental credits and projects.
Rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi): More people and institutions are recognizing the benefits of DeFi, from transparency to democratized access.
Popularity of NFTs: The integration of NFTs in various sectors, including art, music, and now environmental credits, signals a trend of digitizing and verifying assets on the blockchain.
Nori:
Strengths: Direct consumer engagement, transparent pricing.
Weaknesses: Limited to carbon removal, Deficit of credits, Single chain access.
FlowCarbon:
Strengths: Impressive fundraising opens a lot of doors, emphasis on transparency. Huge team and a lot of resources. They have a financing option for project developers.
Weaknesses: Not very effective with all of that capital (opinion). Wework potential bankruptcy may have a negative impact. High pressure to release quickly with all of that funding which could hinder strategic planning.
Senken.io:
Strengths: Emphasis on advanced technologies.
Weaknesses: Narrow focus, reliance on philanthropy.
CarbonLink:
Strengths: Technology-driven approach, API's to outsource as revenue stream.
Weaknesses: Limited project variety, early stages so difficulty competing with other API providers like crossmint.
Carbonable:
Strengths: Similar approach to whole project funding.
Weaknesses: No projects available, return metrics are based on a 20 year payback period which is a long time to ask funders to wait.
EcoSapiens:
Strengths: Significant fundraising, Dynamic NFT approach, unique offering with good partnerships. Amazing, animation, and creativity.
Weaknesses: They seem somewhat limited with their NFT approach as new collections could be seen as a dilution.
Toucan:
Strengths: Adoption via Klima and NCT utilized in Regen. Clear docs on bridging traditional carbon credits on chain.
Weaknesses: Technical approach involves retiring credits in origination registry, pushback from Verra on credit tokenization, Credits seem to tank immediately in price with their approach.
CarbonMark / Klima:
Strengths: Diverse project catalog, transparency, large supply of credits, good user adoption, willing to bring on credits from other chains if infrastructure exists (we can provide).
Weaknesses: Single chain, low price per credit.
Our unique value proposition lies in the synergy of our offerings: integrating a comprehensive ecocredit marketplace with blockchain's transparency, NFT verification, and the ecoLedger's omnichain approach. The addition of full project funding and the tokenization of full ecoProjects adds a new value proposition that is not available yet in any meaningful way.
