Opening the Year

January 6, 2026

Key Participants

  • Gregory Landua
  • Brandon Kelly
  • Lance Pitman
  • Shawn (GAIA AI team)
  • Sean/SM (student researching climate finance)

Major Discussion Topics

1. State of Regen Network Report

Gregory presented an AI-generated impact report created using Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools that directly query on-chain data:

Network Metrics (as of December 2025):

  • 5 EcoCredit types across 13 credit classes
  • 57 active crediting projects
  • 6.1 million eco-credits issued
  • 1.4 million purchased and retired (23%)
  • ~420,000 hectares of verified regenerative land management
  • 5.2 million tons CO2 equivalent sequestered
  • 22 countries participating
  • 23,000 total wallet accounts (77% active)
  • ~50 validators (21 active)

Marketplace Overview:

  • Credit prices ranging $2.70 to $45+ (some biochar credits reached $100-120)
  • Multiple credit types: carbon, biodiversity, marine biodiversity, umbrella species tokens

2. Network Upgrade (Version 7)

Major upcoming blockchain upgrade announced:

  • Upgrading to new Cosmos SDK version
  • Enables IBC version 2 with Ethereum native functionality
  • Direct interoperability between Ethereum and Regen Ledger accounts
  • Continued CosmWasm smart contract support
  • Release candidate phase, validator guide coming soon

3. Regen AI Tools & Knowledge Commons

Significant progress on AI tooling infrastructure:

Current Capabilities:

  • Custom GPT with MCP access to Regen data
  • Direct blockchain querying for transparent reporting
  • Integration with Claude Code and Gemini
  • Public API access to most tools

Future Vision - Three-Layer Permissioning:

  1. Internal: Private tools (e.g., registry onboarding for staff)
  2. Commons: Token-gated or membership-based access for community
  3. Public: Open access tools

Token-Gated Access Prototype:

  • Proof of concept requiring 0.01 REGEN tokens to access certain AI agents
  • Exploring staking requirements and more sophisticated mechanisms
  • Integration with Regen Commons membership structure

4. Brandon’s Economic Proposals

Brandon created several comprehensive forum posts during the holidays:

Economic Reboot Roadmap:

  • Proof of authority mechanisms
  • Two-token economics with dynamic supply and fixed cap
  • Governance components
  • All documented in GitHub for collaborative development

Institutional Investment Pathways:

  • Framework for attracting institutional buyers
  • “Calling of Giants” strategy targeting entities like Berkshire Hathaway
  • Community-driven pitch development with incentives

Micro-Incentive Pitch Program: Rules-based system where community members can:

  • Identify specific buyer institutions
  • Specify ecological needs and locations
  • Identify institutional levers
  • Create 30-day asks
  • Generate high-quality pitches for minimal compensation ($1-10)
  • Focus on emotional, clear asks rather than “climate alarmism”

Hybrid Ecological Bonds:

  • Exploring bond-like structures for land stewardship
  • Building on 2019 “redowment” work (ecological endowment bonds)
  • Pay-for-success funding contracts
  • Potential to use CosmWasm instead of custom modules

5. Market Activity Discussion

Lance and Brandon discussed:

  • Buying REGEN on Hydrax DEX with better liquidity
  • 100%+ APR on Hydrax pools (paid in HYDX tokens)
  • Token incentive models and governance bribing
  • Price arbitrage inefficiencies (1-4% difference) across venues
  • Base blockchain’s push for content coins and social media integration

Strategic Themes

Transparency & Data Quality:

  • Real-time on-chain reporting capability
  • AI tools that flag uncertainty and data quality
  • Building trust through verifiable information

Democratizing Access:

  • Making deep institutional knowledge accessible to anyone
  • Lowering barriers to contribution and participation
  • Enabling community-driven growth strategies

Infrastructure for Impact:

  • Using Regen Ledger as hash directory for knowledge graphs
  • Building trust layers and permission systems
  • Creating contribution accounting for knowledge commons

Next-Generation Registry:

  • Dev.app.regen.network showcasing collaborative credit creation
  • Multi-party data provision, review, and signing
  • Transparent registration process ledger

Action Items & Next Steps

  1. Testing & Iteration:
    • Gregory to upgrade Claude Code and Gemini with latest MCP via NPX
    • Run comprehensive tests before Regen AI stand-up
    • Sean/Darren continuing MCP server improvements
  2. Documentation:
    • Guy AI team exploring registry connections to knowledge commons
    • Brandon to potentially publish micro-incentive pitch rules
    • Community encouraged to test dev registry and provide feedback
  3. Economic Development:
    • Further exploration of ecological bond structures
    • Development of institutional investment pathways
    • Testing token-gated access mechanisms

Notable Quotes

Gregory on the vision: “We’re just entering into this epoch in Regen Network where both development of new protocols, deployment on-chain, pulling data, instrumenting everything, as well as the ability for researchers or market participants or buyers to just pull information and have access to provably, verifiably, really high-quality information.”

Brandon on accessibility: “It’s exciting that with GAIA AI’s help, this sort of Regen AI tooling has gotten to the point where anybody who’s motivated can have 99% of the context that long-time contributors have.”