At Hashgraph, we’re excited to share updates on our team and the future of the Hedera Guardian open source initiative. As adoption of Hedera Guardian continues to grow across climate and environmental markets, we are strengthening our efforts to support the ecosystem and its future development.
Hedera Guardian open-source development began in 2020, with Envision Blockchain playing a key role starting in 2021 as the core maintainer, responsible for managing and supporting the development of the codebase. Since then, Hedera Guardian open source adoption has grown from an early concept to a platform being used by dozens of companies in climate finance, including the world’s leading carbon standards, auditors, project developers, and enterprises.
Hashgraph and the broader Hedera ecosystem would like to recognize and thank the team members at Envision and our community for making this possible, and helping bring an idea over the past 5+ years to reality.
This progress has led to 100+ open source contributors on GitHub, success in issuing numerous types of environmental assets, and new commercial partnerships. In the last year alone, the success of the Hedera Guardian ecosystem has been demonstrable across:
- Standards: Working with Verra as part of their Digital Transformation, as well as enabling project developers as part of Gold Standards Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) Pilot Programme. Both of the leading carbon standards collaborated on the DLT Earth Methodology Bounty Programme with Exponential Science.
- Registry Systems: including the National Carbon Registry maintained by the United Nations Development Program (Github) and the latest announcement from BCarbon and EcoMarkets Australia, supporting their Registry’s migration and build on Hedera.
- Governments: Regulated government markets, including the State of Virginia’s Mitigation Banking system, SWaN.
- Auditors: Earthood and its platform, Earthlink, have enabled foundational support for both Gold Standard and Verra projects, such as ATEC’s Metered and Measured dMRV Project and Karbon-X ABC Mangrove.
- Project Developers & Applications: Straatos, Evercity, NoviqTech, Dovu are all progressing their standards-based integrations by working with project developers for carbon credit and environmental asset issuances.
- Emissions Disclosure: The Hedera community has developed an open source version of the latest Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) 3.0, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) PACT Methodology 3.0, and many of the primitives needed for the next generation of carbon accounting and regulated disclosures on Hedera. This work, led in collaboration with key stakeholders including WinCL, enables significant steps forward in carbon accounting.
- Supply Chain Transparency: Fairfood and nset.io are leading the way with the next generation of compliance and disclosure to meet the latest regulations impacting global value chains and sustainable commodities.
Next Steps for Managed Guardian Service
As part of this journey, Daniel Norkin and Jason Pancis, the co-founders of Envision, have launched a new venture, Climission, to make it easier for organizations in the Guardian ecosystem to leverage the platform without running their own Guardian infrastructure. This includes Managed Guardian Service, AI Policy Development Tools, help desk support, as well as ATP (Automated Transaction Processing) – a service that enables Hedera fees to be managed as a service for clients. At Hashgraph, we are happy to be able to support them in this journey.
Hashgraph’s Support for Open Source Guardian
To support the Hedera Guardian ecosystem, the team at Hashgraph will step up to take on a larger role in open source development alongside Climission, whose main focus will be Managed Guardian Service operations, as well as contributing open source features aligned with their customers’ needs.
In addition, multiple key open source contributors and members of the team will be joining Hashgraph to continue supporting the development of new features, community training, and digitalized policy and methodology support. These open source contributors will also support key stakeholders and bounty programs, which have grown significantly in the last quarter, thanks to support from Exponential Science and Hedera Foundation.
The initial Community Bounties that were approved include 6 awarded contributions across: Xeptagon for an Updated Token Retirement Smart Contract, CarbonMarketsHQ for their Methodology Digitalization Handbook (40+ hrs of training), and multiple contributions from Helpware spanning smart contracts and UI improvements. To date in March Hashgraph has reviewed and is expecting 25+ third party community contributions.
Methodology bounties submissions to date include: Verra’s Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation methodology, which is being finalized in collaboration with Verra and Hashgraph for production use. We’ve also begun an initial review of Gold Standard’s Safe Drinking Water Methodology by Xeptagon.
These submissions have kicked off a new set of bounties by Exponential Science to enable community contributions focused on integrity with the Hedera Guardian across 3 standards, including Verra, Gold Standard, and BCarbon.
At Hashgraph, we’re excited about the future of the Hedera Guardian ecosystem and want to affirm our commitment to the Guardian community. The same team at Hashgraph has supported open-source Guardian development alongside Envision since its inception and will continue to support the ecosystem as it embarks on this next chapter together.
To stay up to date on the latest developments and connect with the Hedera Guardian community, join the upcoming community calls: