Ecotoken

TLDR

ecoBridge — the platform operating under the Ecotoken brand — is a cross-chain protocol for purchasing and retiring verified ecological credits on-chain. Founded in 2021, it bridges voluntary carbon and biodiversity markets to Solana and a growing set of other blockchains, issuing NFT Impact Certificates as tamper-proof retirement receipts. Its most prominent real-world deployment was facilitating the Solana Foundation's full carbon neutrality commitment for 2023 — the first time the Foundation offset 100% of the network's carbon footprint entirely on-chain.

Core Mechanism

ecoBridge connects buyers directly to Regen Network's voluntary credit market. When a user wants to retire credits, the flow is: connect a Solana wallet to the ecoBridge platform, select an environmental project, enter retirement details, and pay in SOL or USDC. The platform retires the selected credits on Regen Ledger and simultaneously mints an NFT Impact Certificate on Solana. Each certificate embeds the credit quantity and classification, the project category and location, the producer, the retiring entity, the retirement date, and the batch identification numbers from Regen Network.

The cross-chain infrastructure is described as the Cross-Chain Ecological Communication Protocol (CCEP). Its companion product ecoLedger extends availability of Regen Network credits to Solana, Celo, Eclipse, Base, Polygon, Aptos, Arbitrum, and Optimism, and underpins a free public API for permissionless integration.

Key Features

bridge.eco is a DeFi swap interface that channels 100% of protocol fees into environmental regeneration. ecoLedger makes the same ecological credits available across 8+ blockchains. NFT Impact Certificates are minted on Solana for each retirement. A free public API enables developers to integrate credit retirement permissionlessly.

Supported credit types include City Forest Credits, REDD+ credits, NCT basketed credits from Regen Network, and Terrasos Biodiversity Units (Tebu's).

Notable Deployment: Solana Foundation Carbon Neutrality

The highest-profile use of ecoBridge was enabling the Solana Foundation to maintain carbon neutrality for 2023. In partnership with Regen Network, ecoBridge processed retirement of City Forest Credits (protecting urban trees across the US) and Terrasos Biodiversity Units (conserving 10 square meters of critical Colombian rainforest for 30 years). The transaction was executed natively on Solana using SPL tokens, in conjunction with Sunrise Stake.

Solana Ecosystem Fit

ecoBridge enables Solana wallets and applications to interact with voluntary carbon and biodiversity credit markets without leaving on-chain environments. Solana's low transaction costs and high throughput make it well-suited for per-retirement NFT minting and microtransaction use cases.

Team

Founded in 2021. CEO James Bettauer is publicly identified. No security audit reports are documented in publicly available materials.