Scientific Publications
Regeneration Credit: A Peer-to-Peer Nature Regeneration System
André O. Ravagnani, José Everson B. Silva (2025)
The Regeneration Credit is a (P2P) funding system designed to incentivize the regeneration of ecosystems. Humanity has been destroying Nature for centuries, and our survival depends on bringing life back to Earth. The problem is that people currently have more economic incentives to deforest an area and exploit its natural resources than to regenerate it. The project aims to create an additional income for people who are regenerating ecosystems, so they can sell the digital representation of their impact in exchange for new tokens after going through a peer-to-peer certification method. This paper outlines the fundamental problems with existing systems, presents our proposed solution, and provides a detailed technical specification of the core smart contracts.
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Sintrop: A Blockchain for Social and Environmental Impact Applications
André O. Ravagnani (2025)
Blockchain technology has the potential to significantly impact the fight against climate change and humanity’s social problems, many different applications are possible to be built with smart contracts. The problem is that decentralized blockchains process very few transactions per second, so projects with real-world impact need to compete for transactions with memecoins, NFTs and others speculative low-value tokens and projects. This competition increases gas fees, limiting the number of impact business models able to operate. What is needed is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure focused on applications that can make the world better. We propose a public peer-to-peer impact blockchain, running with proof-of-work consensus algorithm with the aim of operating mostly with renewable energy.
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