Episode 230 - Bioregional Reforestation: How Crypto is Transforming Localized Climate Finance

For Episode 230, we welcome Djimo Serodio, Founder of Silvi, and Jon Ruth, Co-Founder of the Climate Coordination Network, two leaders helping reimagine how the world funds and verifies ecological restoration.

We unpack the newly launched Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round, the largest blockchain-native, outcomes-based reforestation funding mechanism to date, and explore why this may be a blueprint for the next era of regenerative climate finance.

You’ll learn:

• 🌍 What bioregional finance really means, and why funding climate action through onchain, place-based, and community-rooted ecosystems may be one of the most powerful tools we have to restore the planet.
• 🌱 How blockchain unlocks outcome-based reforestation, using smart contracts, decentralized MRV, and plant-to-earn incentives to reward real ecological impact.
• 🚀 What this model could look like at scale if bioregional, outcomes-based funding becomes the new standard for global climate finance.

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--Key Takeaways--

🌱 Local wisdom drives better restoration: Bioregional reforestation puts decision-making in the hands of the people who know their ecosystems best. Planting the right trees in the right places requires deep local knowledge, which is perfectly aligned with Web3’s commitment to localism, community ownership, and bottom-up coordination.

🌍 A trillion trees requires global coordination: Silvi’s long-term vision is bold: planting 1 trillion trees in the coming decades. Achieving this demands unprecedented collaboration across regions, organizations, and funders. Web3 provides the coordination layer needed to align incentives and mobilize action at planetary scale.

🔗 Blockchain unlocks scalable verification and distribution: Web3 tools like smart contracts, crypto payment rails, and on-chain MRV tools  enable transparent, efficient, and tamper-resistant verification of ecological outcomes. The Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round is a proving ground for this model, laying the foundation for large-scale, trustworthy, and transparent climate finance.

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