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Across research, consulting, and public-interest infrastructure, we worked with an expanding network of builders, institutions, and educators to advance credible, system-level approaches to green crypto. Here are our 2025 highlights.
Regen Atlas — Scaling a Public Good Infrastructure
Regen Atlas, initially incubated at Ecofrontiers, continued to grow throughout 2025 as a public-good knowledge infrastructure for green crypto assets.
- The platform now lists close to 400 green crypto assets, spanning multiple asset categories and production logics.
- A new institution directory was launched, allowing protocols, DAOs, foundations, and onchain organizations operating in regenerative finance to be discoverable as first-class entities. This feature proved particularly valuable for ecosystem mapping and due diligence.
- Toward the end of the year, Regen Atlas received a grant from ETHForTheWorld, enabling the team to begin development of an "Actions View": a layer dedicated to verifiable positive-impact actions that materially back tokenized assets.
This evolution reflects a core Ecofrontiers thesis: green crypto markets cannot remain asset-only abstractions. They must be anchored in observable actions, accountable institutions, and legible production processes.
Publications & Research
The Green Crypto Handbook — Completion and Publishing Agreement
2025 was the year in which The Green Crypto Handbook was completed and formally accepted by an academic publisher, with publication scheduled for 2026.
This volume — initiated in 2023 and continuously developed since — formalizes the Web3 Environmental Finance Stack, a multi-layered framework describing how tokenized natural capital is collectively produced across material, institutional, and technical layers. Signing with an academic publisher represents both recognition of the work's rigor and a commitment to long-term scholarly contribution.
More details will be shared soon, but this milestone marks the closest we have ever been to bringing this research fully into the public domain.
Additional Essays Published in 2025
Beyond the Handbook, we continued to publish shorter-form research and conceptual work:
- Contribution to Ethereum Localism: Grounding the Future of Coordination
Our essay, "Walkthrough of the Green Crypto Handbook", situates the Environmental Finance Stack within broader questions of planetary cybernetics and coordination. - "Intensities, Institutions & the Future of Ecological Governance"
An essay examining how ecological governance must evolve beyond static indicators toward intensity-based, institutional, and infrastructural approaches. - "Intents, x402, and Enshrined Thermorealism"
A speculative essay introducing thermorealism as a conceptual tool to think about how protocols might one day internalize thermodynamic and planetary constraints.
Consulting, Research & Teaching Work
Throughout 2025, Ecofrontiers continued to work with projects operating at the intersection of impact, infrastructure, and cryptoeconomic design.
- Glow: In March, we authored a research article published by CarbonCopy, using Glow as a case study to evaluate how DePIN architectures can incentivize decentralized and sustainable solar energy production.
- AsteriskDAO: Throughout the whole year, we maintained a close advisory relationship with AsteriskDAO, supporting strategic and operational decisions as they build the first non-reproductive women's health companion app — addressing a deeply underfunded and structurally neglected data domain.
- Alyra Blockchain & AI School: A highlight of 2025 was the beginning of a truly rewarding collaboration, in which we served as external examiners for end-of-program assessments and delivered a dedicated lecture on the Protocol Layer of The Green Crypto Handbook. Working so closely with a new generation of practitioners and educators was both energizing and deeply aligned with our mission.
- Sostento: We joined the Crypto Advisory Board of Sostento, an organization deploying pragmatic, field-tested solutions to reduce barriers to healthcare access for low-income and uninsured populations.
- Inhabit: After several years of advisory collaboration, Inhabit launched its first NFT collection dedicated to land stewardship in Colombia — an important milestone in translating long-term ecological commitments into durable onchain instruments.
- Blockchain for Good: We officially joined the association's scientific network, formalizing a collaboration that has existed informally for several years.
Ecosystem & Events
- Devcon Buenos Aires: Selected by the Ethereum Foundation as a Devcon scholar, our co-founder Louise attended Devcon in Buenos Aires and facilitated a workshop on protocol actions for environmental public goods at Funding the Commons. Following this, we published an article synthesizing discussions on the current state of public-goods funding.
- Central Bank of Uruguay — P2P Financial Systems Workshop: Louise presented our taxonomy of green crypto assets (8 types, 30 subtypes), developed as part of the Green Crypto Handbook, exploring how programmable finance may support sustainability transitions.
- Sciences Po Paris: Guest lecture on sustainable blockchain applications within a blockchain course led by Pierre Noro.
- ReFi Provence — Marseille: Speaker at one of the first ReFi Provence events, supported by d&a partners and Ethereum France.
Media & Interviews
- CarbonCopy Interview (Parts I & II): A rich conversation exploring green crypto, natural capital, and the development of The Green Crypto Handbook.
- Token for Your Thoughts Podcast: Joined Lindsey McConaghy to discuss the evolving landscape of green crypto and the ideas shaping our work.
- FlickTalks Interview: A thoughtful exchange with Ariadne Prieto on building sustainable futures through blockchain innovation.
Looking Ahead to 2026
- The Green Crypto Handbook — Publication at Last: Next year marks the long-awaited publication of The Green Crypto Handbook, the culmination of three years of research and experimentation. We couldn't be more excited about this!
- Deepening Collaborations with Existing Partners: We look forward to continue our work with the remarkable organizations and projects that have been part of our journey — Regen Atlas, AsteriskDAO, Alyra, Sostento, and more.
- Exploring New Projects and Ideas: 2026 will also be a year of expansion. We are looking forward to collaborating with new partners, supporting initiatives at the intersection of Web3 and sustainability, and contributing to research that challenges and redefines how digital systems can serve ecological and social goals.
If you are building, researching, or experimenting in this space, we would be delighted to connect, exchange ideas, and explore ways to collaborate.
Thank You
As we close out 2025, we want to express our deepest gratitude to our collaborators, clients, editors, institutions, and peers. Running an agency at the intersection of Web3 and sustainability is not always easy — especially in a moment when ecological issues are often sidelined or cut from political agendas. Yet Ecofrontiers exists because of a shared commitment to rigorous thinking, long-term impact, and the belief that technology can serve ecological stewardship. Your trust, curiosity, and engagement make our work possible!
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See you in 2026!