Gregory Landua / Regen Commons Launch
Gregory gave an overview of Regen Commons, an effort that has been running for nearly two years to unify the broader refi and regen movement by converting the Regen Network trademark into a shared commons rather than enforcing it against community members who were already using it informally. The current state: 30+ individual members, five organizational members, and a Stewardship Council that includes Gregory, Nena from Regen Foundation, Benjamin and Patricia from Open Civics, Afo from the Green Pill community, Monty from RefiDAO, and Eve. The website will be at regencommons.com — a migration was running the day of the call, so it wasn’t yet live. Max asked for the link in chat and Gregory confirmed it would be up shortly.
The onboarding model is cohort-based: to join, a member pledges some asset into the commons and is invited in. The first cohort covers participants from the early process plus specific invitees. Gregory expects subsequent cohorts to open enrollment more broadly as the kinks are worked out. There’s also a potential rollup of Regen Commons into Regen Foundation, which is already a member-governed 501c3, giving the commons a nonprofit umbrella and enabling more aggressive charitable giving. Gregory flagged an aspirational connection between Regen Commons and the REGEN token as a common store of value, noting that Max’s Cooperative Bank model could be a natural cornerstone of that.
Max / DAO Feedbot Demo
Max showed a Telegram bot MCP server he built experimentally with a friend. It is connected to snapshots of key DeFi project forums — forums tend to carry earlier signals than official announcements — and lets users ask questions like “what key events happened recently” and get back structured answers with links to governance discussions and Snapshot votes. The bot also manages a simulated portfolio (started at $100, grew to $105) holding Aave, Morpho, and Ethereum, using a simple short-term strategy that sells at 20% gains and waits for governance-driven signals before repositioning.
Gregory asked what the bot’s core thesis was — whether it was generating alpha from governance feeds specifically. Max confirmed that was the direction: tracking events like DAO treasury liquidations where a token becomes temporarily mispriced relative to the liquidation payout. Gregory was interested in what the fiduciary checklist would look like before the Token Economics Working Group or Cooperative Bank could allocate any real capital to such a bot — what period of positive returns, what audit trail, what success criteria. Max acknowledged the bot is still a toy and suggested a next step of giving it $100 in real on-chain capital to see how behavior changes.
Max + Gregory / Cooperative Bank Flywheel & Eco-Credit Sales
Max reported the first meaningful revenue event for the Regen Cooperative Bank: $600 in sales of Ukrainian iNaturalist-based eco-credits from Echo Villages, with a 10% commission ($60) flowing to the bank. The design question he brought to the group: how to spend $60 in a way that generates $240 in new sales — a $1-in/$4-out flywheel ratio he had modeled as sufficient to keep the fund self-sustaining. He noted that X/Twitter advertising doesn’t seem to deliver that ratio and is more useful as an awareness layer than a core sales channel.
Max described two near-term directions. First, a Kazakhstan botanist group that already conducts iNaturalist observations focused on bees — they could issue credits on that work more easily than starting from scratch, and a local business (his wife suggested a beauty salon as an example) could become a funding or thematic partner. Second, a conversation with a UNDP colleague surfaced the scale problem on the institutional side: issuing a $20M green bond for a city required $600K in upfront legal costs just for the preparation phase. Max sees the cooperative bank as a lighter-weight path to the same destination — aggregating small projects and routing capital without the institutional overhead.
Gregory noted that eco-credit sales broadly are in a difficult bear market and have been slow, though Regen Registry has had some larger unreported successes recently that are survival-level rather than transformative. He suggested REGEN token could play a role via Azos Finance, which has been working with Regen on the city forest credits and Klima Treasury. Gregory also shared Guardians of Earth as a project doing citizen-observation-based crediting with a different app layer than iNaturalist, worth studying. Christian added that Azos has confirmed interest in qualifying REGEN as collateral, with roughly $40K of REGEN needed to initialize — previously discussed as an R&D or Mark’s SPV play. Gregory proposed the Token Economics Working Group explore co-liquidity participation.
Benjamin Roe / Introduction + NaloDAO
Benjamin joined for the first time. He does permaculture design and has been exploring the intersection of regeneration and crypto. Gregory noticed his website in chat (nalodesigns.com/home/nalodao) and confirmed it was his. Gregory asked whether Benjamin had demonstrated an iNaturalist verification flow during the session; Benjamin confirmed he had, and Gregory flagged it as something he’d like to review more closely with the goal of building a lightweight anchoring tool for iNaturalist observations on Regen infrastructure. Brandon pointed Benjamin to app.regen.network for submitting stewardship projects.
Trinh Nguyen / Research Update
Trinh returned after several months away, explaining that her academic supervisor retired earlier than planned, compressing her thesis timeline. She has now completed 18 interviews — meeting her original target — and has early analysis underway on carbon credit and biodiversity credit markets with technology applications. One abstract was already presented at an information systems conference. Her plan is to co-author a paper using the group’s data as a non-primary-data publication, inviting team members as co-authors as a kind of gift to the community documenting what was built together. She expressed particular interest in Gregory’s earlier idea about testing how AI agents respond to tokenomics incentives as a research direction.
Cauê Tomaz / GreenGoods + Sarofu Update
Cauê rejoined after roughly two months focused on a program his team received funding for from the Localism Fund and Bitcoin. He’s been helping cooperatives onboard to the Regen ecosystem, including one group that just completed their DaoDAO organization setup and now wants to issue credits on the marketplace — they have significant land, ongoing tree maintenance, and frequent interventions to document.
He also shared GreenGoods, an app built with the Greenfield Dev Guild that uses EAS (Ethereum Attestation Service) for structured ecological data verification. The model: a garden is a smart account with designated operators and gardeners. Gardeners submit photos and timestamped data inputs; operators do a lightweight review before submitting the attestation on EAS. Each garden has vaults in Ethereum and DAI. The key problem it solves is data structure — unstructured spreadsheet data is common in ecological projects and makes verification unreliable. GreenGoods enforces schema at submission time, giving operators incentive to maintain data quality. Cauê is working on connecting this with Regen and sees potential overlap with what Max is building around iNaturalist credits. Work on Sarofu network vouchers is also progressing and becoming more solid.
Security Reminder
Cauê alerted the group that a community member had recently been scammed via a compromised Telegram account sending messages about a European Ethereum event with a fake Google login link. Gregory echoed the reminder: do not click links from unexpected messages, even from known contacts.