We made it into RESPOND!

Great news! We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected to participate in the 2023 cohort of the RESPOND Accelerator program. This is a big honor for us, and we can't wait to get going. RESPOND is a massive opportunity for us to take this mission to the next level. Over the next few months, we will be working closely with a team of expert mentors, advisors, and fellow entrepreneurs to refine our vision, improve our offering, and build a strong, more resilient company that can lift our ambitious mission. We're not just excited about the opportunity to learn, but also to contribute. As a company focused on environmental and social impact, we hope that we can offer insights and perspective to our fellow participants. Of course, all of this would be so much harder without all of our supporters and partners who believe in the importance of our work. We are incredibly grateful for their support.

Source: RESPOND

Our White Paper dropped!

Over the past months, careful research, countless stakeholder conversations and a hugely successful workshop on biodiversity tokenisation have led to an exciting result:

We are happy to announce the publication of our white paper, outlining our “Proof-of-Life Protocol” for biodiversity tokenisation. It is clear that in order to make biodiversity an investable and reliable asset, we need accurate and continuous measurement at a global scale. Combining web3 and eDNA technology, we propose a solution that allows the decoupling of payments for data generation and payments for data use, thereby creating the foundation for a new financial ecosystem based on nature.

What is very important for us: This is an open project welcoming collaborators from all sides. We aim to build an impactful tool that enables the global community to bend the curve on biodiversity loss. Please share your thoughts and engage with us through the form on our white paper landing page. Creating a nature-positive economic system needs coordinated effort - and nowadays we have the coordination tools we need!

Source: https://www.simplexdna.com/whitepaper

MRV Collective

Whereas ReFi summer has to some extent been thwarted by the rather gloomy atmosphere in the crypto space since the stablecoin crash, this does not mean that progress has stagnated. In fact, a great amount of new initiatives have been launched and have been working all summer. One that stands out is the MRV Collective.

The MRV Collective is a group of organisations and companies who are convinced that digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting and Verification) is essential to drive investments in the direction of nature-based solutions. This brings together a lot of organisations from the web3 / ReFi space and beyond. The idea is that in order to assign financial value to nature services, we first need to be able to measure them, which is why the collective works with various stakeholders in the field. In addition to the MRV Collective being a platform for all these actors, they are actually working towards an open protocol, thus showcasing and harnessing the power of collaboration.

Source: https://twitter.com/mrvcollective/header_photo

SimplexDNA is proud to be part of this endeavour. We are a member of the dMRV roundtable and MRV museum since late June and have been a member of the MRV founders’ circle (part of ReFi DAO’s founder circles). It is an amazing opportunity to learn from experienced entrepreneurs and to establish the role eDNA and SimplexDNA can play in that space. The MRV collective, as well as SimplexDNA, are a member of the TNFD’s Data Catalyst - a place where news and progress updates about digital MRV solutions converge.