Applying DeFi infrastructure and protocol design to real-world problems — from carbon market inefficiencies to stablecoin architecture for emerging economies.
Article 1 · DeFi Infrastructures for the Regeneration Market
How batch auctions and solver competition can eliminate rent-seeking in carbon markets
The carbon credit market loses 30–50% of value to intermediaries who profit from information asymmetry. CoW Protocol's batch auction model — designed to eliminate unnecessary intermediation in DeFi — offers a direct template for restructuring how carbon credits are discovered, matched, and settled.
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Two protocol designs built from opposite collateral realities in Latin America
Instead of designing stablecoins in the abstract, what happens when you start from specific real-world constraints? CONCORDIA tackles multi-sovereign commodity trade settlement using Chile and Brazil's mineral reserves. $DUX addresses payment delays for Brazilian creators with verified brand contracts. Two opposite collateral realities, two explicit trade-off frameworks.
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