Impact

Environmental impact

A gardening product making environmental claims has to be more careful than most, not less. This page is deliberately conservative about what can be promised.

What this page will not say. Buying CGW does not help the environment. Holding CGW does not offset anything. No environmental outcome has been achieved, because no funds exist and no grant has been made. Claims of impact will only appear here once there is verified evidence attached to them.
Allocation

The environmental vault

Share of supply

APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION

5%

50,000,000 CGW, approved for V1.

Release

APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION

60 months

Linear over five years, so commitments are sustained rather than front-loaded into a launch announcement.

Counted as

APPROVED FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Treasury-controlled

Never counted as circulating supply until a grant is actually disbursed against evidence.

Process

How a grant would work

  1. Cause proposedA biodiversity, reforestation or verified green initiative is put forward with a defined outcome.
  2. VerificationThe organisation and the claimed work are checked before anything is committed.
  3. Community selectionOnce governance exists, CGW holders help choose among verified candidates.
  4. Milestone structureFunding is split into milestones with evidence requirements defined in advance.
  5. Evidence submittedThe recipient provides evidence that a milestone was actually met.
  6. DisbursementThe treasury multisig releases that milestone's funds from the environmental vault.
  7. Public reportingThe transaction, the evidence and the outcome are published — including where a milestone failed.
Honesty

The limits of what can be verified

Why this is genuinely hard

PROPOSED

It is easy to fund tree planting. It is much harder to know whether the trees were planted, survived, and would not have been planted anyway. Anyone claiming certainty about environmental outcomes at a distance is overstating what they know.

How it actually works

The project can verify that a payment was made, that a recipient exists, and that evidence was submitted for a milestone. It cannot independently verify ecological outcomes years later without a monitoring capability it does not have. The design therefore commits to publishing what was funded and what evidence was received, and to being explicit about the difference between that and proven impact.

A note on regulatory exposure. An environmental narrative attached to a crypto-asset attracts specific scrutiny under EU rules on sustainability disclosure and misleading marketing. Solana network energy disclosure would be required, offsets could not be netted against reported figures, and vague impact claims are precisely what the anti-greenwashing provisions target. This is documented in the regulatory research rather than discovered later.