Guardian 3.0: A Community-Driven Milestone in Open-Source Sustainability
Guardian 3.0: A Community-Driven Milestone in Open-Source Sustainability The release of Guardian 3.0 represents much more than a set of new features; it’s a major step forward in the way we address climate and sustainability challenges with open-source technology....
Newly Launched Service Enables Orgs to Mint Emissions and Offset Tokens to Reduce Fraud in the ESG Industry
Newly Launched Service Enables Orgs to Mint Emissions and Offset Tokens to Reduce Fraud in the ESG Industry The open-source Guardian project built on the Hedera public distributed ledger network enables the creation of a frictionless and fraud-proof ESG carbon...
Web3 in Voluntary Carbon Markets
Web3 in Voluntary Carbon Markets Why would we choose Blockchain or Web3, over existing technology? Today’s markets are running into a crisis of trust. This trust becomes harder to achieve when interests are not aligned, or where enough power is concentrated in a...
What is a Zero-Knowledge Proof?
What is a Zero-Knowledge Proof The idea of zero-knowledge proofs, or simply ZKP for short, is a means of proving knowledge of certain information, without revealing that information. These proofs are typically used in areas, such as cryptography, where providing...
To Effectively Address Climate Change, We Need Innovative Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Energy Accounting Methods
Authors: Max Pinnola - ESG Lead, Envision Blockchain; Paul Breslow - Innovation Director, EDF Foreword/Preface "For Earth Day 2022 our goal is to share voices from the Hedera community highlighting ways we can address climate change and explore uses of Hedera to...
Guardian v2.0: The next generation of ESG marketplaces built on Hedera
For Earth Day 2022, Envision Blockchain is proud to announce the release of the 2.0 version of the Guardian. The Guardian is a modular open-source solution that includes best-in-class identity management and DLT libraries for developers to get started creating ESG...
EIP 4910 – Royalty Bearing NFTs
The concept of royalties and NFTs and usually in the same conversation, but many seem to ignore how they go together. Up until not, royalties that are due on NFT sales are managed centrally. What happens if the application that "is the marketplace" goes away for...
ConsenSys Mesh and Envision Blockchain introduce a new advanced NFT standard: TreeTrunk
Launching in a beta release on the Polygon Network’s Mumbai testnet, TreeTrunk presents a new smart contract that, for the first time in the Ethereum ecosystem, collects and distributes royalty payments from the secondary sales of non-fungible-tokens (NFTs)...
Hedera Improvement Proposals (HIPs)
HIP stands for "Hedera Improvement Proposal". These improvement proposals can range from core protocol changes, to the applications, frameworks, and protocols built on top of the Hedera public network and used by the community. The HIP author is responsible for...
Introducing Treetrunk
In partnership with ConsenSys, Envision Blockchain is helping bring to life Treetrunk, a unique way to create and own exclusive art, create numbered prints, and essentially build a royalties empire! The basis of Treetrunk is Crypto Lithography, a method of altering...
Introducing the Guardian – A Requirements-Based Tokenization service That Makes Creating & Discovering ESG Assets Easy
Wes Geisenberger, VP of Sustainability & ESG at The HBAR Foundation writes in a blog post, "Hedera & the HBAR Foundation are proud to announce the first open source reference implementation of the IWA Voluntary Ecological Markets ("VEM") Standards. This...
Keep up to date with the Cardano network roadmap
With all of the buzz around the new Alonzo upgrade (implementation of smart contracts) for the Cardano network, there are a serious of ecosystem pieces that are gearing up for the release. Check the roadmap by clicking the link below to see for yourself what is...