Carbonmark 2024 in Review 🌟 A year of growth, partnerships, and innovation—proving climate action can be as simple as a one-click transaction. Read more about: ✅ Milestones in scaling environmental markets 🔗 Blockchain reshaping the VCM

Reading about DeepSeek this week, I can't help but think about the story of Mesopotamia. The Hilly Flanks above ancient Mesopotamia had rich soil and ample rainfall, so the people who lived there never had to innovate to survive. The less fortunate people living in the dry river valley below the hills had it harder, which by necessity led them to develop irrigation and other clever survival hacks—and it was these people, not those living in the Hilly Flanks, who developed the first cities, the first money, the first writing, and the first civilization...

We are indeed in the process of major updates to the KF’s strategy and operations, which have been evolving for over a year. Some of these shifts are already visible, while others are still in progress. What we’re working toward: * Strengthening KF’s role in synthetic pricing for climate assets, ensuring transparent and reliable valuation mechanisms. * Deepening integration with key ecosystem actors—on-chain liquidity providers, institutional carbon traders, sustainability-focused DAOs, blockchain-native financial infrastructure, custodians, tokenizers, etc. * Increasing execution speed and adaptability, bringing in fresh talent to push KlimaDAO’s mission forward. * Expanding the on-chain environmental asset market by making KLIMA a more compelling vehicle for scaling climate finance. * Leveraging blockchain-based financial infrastructure to make climate markets more efficient, interoperable, and transparent. Explicit non-goals are: * Turning KLIMA into a purely ideological movement rather than a pragmatic financial and infrastructure play for scaling environmental impact. * Chasing regulatory capture or over-reliance on legacy institutions that do not align with the ethos of open financial systems. * Becoming a centralized gatekeeper rather than a permissionless protocol enabling market-based climate action. * Diluting our focus by trying to be everything to everyone—we are here to build the financial rails for the future of climate markets, not to engage in mission creep. These principles guide us, and they aren’t changing.