Carbonless NFT Movement

KodaDot is going to be carbon-negative gallery, by default

We are trying to set a movement where artists can offset their mints. Simple as that. Even we are running on a low carbon blockchain Kusama.network and plan to roll out our own NFT-focused infrastructure parachain MetaPrime.network, we feel that we should step up in the game and be more carbon neutral and later contribute to be carbon negative gallery in a way to drive global forestation. To help artists mitigate the negative effects of expanding society on the planet. At least, we might contribute to do the small job here. The audience will decide.

Carbon Neutral Mission of Kodadot

The mission of Kodadot gallery is to flow collectors' resources to environmentally conscious digital art creation in a way to address the Earth's mounting climate crisis. We have intent to bring carbon calculator and help to make forestations and offsetting as new normal and easy access. To kick-start this effort, we've partnered with Offsetra which allows users to support "high-quality pro-climate projects via the purchase of carbon offsets credits".

Carbon offset credits come from a variety of sustainability-oriented projects. Offsetra only sources offsets from validated and verified projects under strict internationally recognized standards. You can find more information on
Offsetra's process is available on their website.

Humble actions

We are aware that just by purchasing Carbon Offsets we won't solve the issue, but we can be small butterfly effect, and later jumpstart impactful actions to start a forestation movement on bigger scale, where it would be native for NFT galleries to bring with every mint, buying offsets in a way to put a small amount of % towards buying carbon offsets and forestation. We will try to put at least some amount of artists' profits based on their decision to drive towards buying credit offsets. Not just feel good about, but with a real impactful way to do proove it.

Building impactful environmental relief

Our first start is to add a toggle to our minting interface where every artist could choose if they want to support carbon credits or not. We will be adding the 🌱 carbonless tag to NFT and later it could be tracked through the search interface and reviewed on-chain. Thus collectors might find it innovative to collect carbonless NFTs. Once Offsetra (or other carbon credit partners) figure out a way to make fiat off-ramp payments from Kusama for carbon-offsets to happen, we will make a full end-to-end native crypto integration with them, so every NFT will consist hash relying on Carbon Credit. To drive the vision to home, we are genuinely looking forward to starting with Terraformation of Planet Earth where one could participate in fashion to own part of the forest, probably introduce the concept of Forest as a Service. Imagination is the limit.

We are not only one and that's great

We are really aware that movement is just about to begin when news outlets started heating discussion and #cleanNFT movement has begun. One option for the creator is to choose from a variety of NFT platforms running on low carbon blockchains which is really great start. Another option is to actively drive movement to be carbon-negative gallery.

Our proof of work

We (Kodadot) are feeling inspired to join this movement in our fashioned way to add carbonless minting for creators and start showing which NFTs are carbonless by showing 🌱 next to them. To top-up our carbon credits buffer, we've already bought KodaDot Carbon Credits and plan to automatize offset them in the future more in sustainabile way.
You can read more at KodaDot's profile page at Offsetra

Once you minted your carbonless NFT on KodaDot, you are welcome to join our Carbonless Minting Telegram channel and KodaDot Discord

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