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Who can use Toucan

Carbon infrastructure that works for you

Next Generation Climate Positive Products

Build applications with programmable carbon credits

Use tokenized assets as a building block for the next generation of climate-positive products and protocols. Support the transition towards a regenerative Web3.

For Web3 Builders

Build applications with programmable carbon credits

Use tokenized assets as a building block for the next generation of climate-positive products and protocols. Support the transition towards a regenerative Web3.

For Credit Suppliers

Increase the value of your carbon credits

Access new sales channels and increase the value and transparency of your carbon projects by bringing them on-chain into the Open Climate Registry

For Credit Buyers

Buy quality credits with complete transparency

Use Toucan to instantly buy and retire carbon credits, and share your impact story with publicly verifiable information.

WHY TOKENIZED CARBON

Tokenized carbon solves key market issues and helps to rapidly scale carbon markets beyond their current limitations

Higher Integrity

Publicly available, immutable data on all credit characteristics, including volumes traded and retired.

Programmability

With Toucan's open APIs, tokenized carbon can be integrated into IT and Web3 projects, market data can be visualized and explored by anyone.

Open Access

Tokenized carbon allows for both large and small buyers to engage with carbon, with lower barriers to entry and more transparency.

Full Transparency

The use of advanced financial technology (smart contracts) brings greater visibility and trust, removing the volume of market intermediaries and reducing fees.

Our mission is to build the financial rails to help a trillion dollars flow to the best climate solutions.

What we offer

Meet the Carbon Stack

Our products make up a catalytic infrastructure which allows users unlock possibilities unimaginable with traditional carbon

Carbon Bridge

Our Carbon Bridge allows owners of carbon credits from verified sources to link each one to a unique digital token called a TCO2. These are stored in a smart contract on a blockchain database called the Open Climate Registry.

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Carbon SDK + API

Help us scale climate solutions by using our developer toolset to build tokenized carbon into your next project.

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Carbon Pools

Carbon Pools hold similar carbon tokens, which back liquid carbon reference tokens like NCT. These can be traded on exchanges and used in products built on the Toucan Protocol.

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Carbon Retirements

Offset emissions by purchasing and retiring carbon from specific projects and vintages - using our Open Climate Registry and retirement functionality.

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Stats

Toucan, the numbers

Tonnes of CO2 bridged

20 Million+

Creating a more effective and transparent carbon market.

Climate projects tokenized

50+

Empowering an exponential range of climate projects.

Tonnes of CO2 retired

50k+

Enabling real, verifiable climate action to be taken.

Carbon trading volume

$4 Billion+

Creating a healthy ecosystem of exchange and value.

Testimonials

Built with Toucan

We’re empowering an ecosystem of innovators all working to accelerating climate action. Reimagining decentralised finance to help make regenerative finance (ReFi) a reality.

“Web3 technology allows us to solve the mass coordination problem critical for responding to the climate crisis. We see Toucan as an integral partner in the Celo ecosystem to build a regenerative financial system that enables communities to prosper and thrive.”

Rene Reinsberg

“Toucan Protocol is breaking new ground, proving how emerging technologies can be applied to address the climate crisis. We're excited to have Toucan co-chair our Web3 Climate Action Working Group as part of the World Economic Forum’s Crypto Sustainability Coalition.”

Evîn Cheikosman

“We are excited about developing upon the opportunities for impact that are made possible by using Toucan infrastructure. We see a world where tech aligns regenerative practices with positive economic outcomes— and Toucan is the ideal partner to make this a reality.”

Helena Merk

“Voluntary carbon markets are an untransparent mess. Toucan is laying the railways to clean up the mess and make it transparent, accessible for all. Solid World DAO and Toucan are like yin and yang for voluntary carbon markets.”

Al William Tammsaar

“Toucan turns carbon credits into easy-to-use Web3 building blocks. Anyone with a non-custodial wallet can buy Toucan’s carbon tokens, send them, use in DeFi or retire to compensate for emissions. Toucan’s open architecture lets smart wallets like Zerion become portals into climate action.”

Andrey Balyasnikov

Partners

Use cases

Programmable carbon as a green building block in your project

Our open infrastructure allows builders to integrate programmable carbon as a green building block into any project. Bring your ideas to the table and help shape the future.

Carbon as collateral

Add tokenized carbon credits as a diversified collateral type in decentralised finance.

Carbon in the metaverse

Incorporate carbon into metaverse projects and incentivise real world impact.

Corporate ESG

Use Toucan's retirement function to build credible, transparent climate claims into your reporting.

Earn interest on carbon

Access new ways of turning carbon credits into productive, yield-bearing assets.

Green NFTs

Integrate carbon with your next NFT project for planet-positive creations.

Carbon as a digital asset

Diversify treasury or portfolio holdings with tokenized real-world carbon credits.