Gregory Landua / Knowledge Commons & Notes Publication Model
Gregory proposed moving toward a concentric-ring model for how the working group shares information. The outer ring — public summaries — would stay focused on need-to-know material: decisions made, policies discussed, general direction. Inner rings — accessible to contributors and members — would get full-fidelity call notes, access to the knowledge graph via Coi and MCP, and design thinking that isn’t ready to be broadcast. His framing: as AI generates insane volumes of questionably coherent content, what becomes genuinely scarce is trust. The working group has been building trust together for years, and that accumulated coherence is worth protecting and making into an explicit membership incentive rather than giving away freely.
A secondary motivation was the T-Rex incident from the previous call — seeing specific personal details surface in the public notes felt like an unnecessary privacy risk. Gregory sketched a potential business model: a $10–20/month subscription that bundles Regen compute credits, MCP access, a skills bundle, and full call notes. Max noted the site has had roughly 100 unique bot-filtered visitors over recent months, and that YouTube transcripts are already publicly extractable, so full opacity isn’t achievable or necessarily the goal — the aim is adding friction and incentive structure, not secrecy.
Max / iNaturalist Biodiversity Credit Methodology
Max shared the methodology document at app.regentokenomics.org/methodology/inat01 and walked through how the system works. iNaturalist, which now has more than 2 million observations globally, lets users submit geo-tagged photos of species. A community review layer verifies misidentified species. The iNaturalist API provides a bounding-box query that returns observation counts for a defined region. Max’s system issues credits based on observation count within a bounding box, currently running on Celo, chosen because it was the more ecologically oriented of the EVM chains he evaluated alongside Base.
Brandon pushed back on the lack of physical or visual representation — the documentation is text-heavy and gives buyers no intuitive sense of what work underlies the credit. Gregory reframed the product as “payment for data collection” rather than a credit in the carbon-credit sense: think of it as labor payment for citizen science, closer to a data bounty than an offset. He drew a parallel to Gainforest’s early data bounty protocol, also on Celo, which didn’t get much adoption but established useful prior art. Gregory also mentioned he personally knows Scott, the founder and CEO of iNaturalist, and offered to co-author a write-up of the experiment and send it to him if the methodology is well documented — noting that iNaturalist would likely be supportive and might have grant ideas. Max flagged one design choice: rather than paying individual observers directly (which risks distorting altruistic motivation, similar to concerns around paid Wikipedia editing), payments would go to the collective, which uses the funds as a group.
Gregory outlined use cases he found compelling: a school district running a biodiversity data drive as a fundraiser, a Girl Scout-style community event, a local watershed organization posting a bounty, or a property owner with Jaguar biocultural credits wanting richer ongoing data about their zone. Christian independently brought up Guardians of Earth, which already has a quest-based citizen science interface, a graphic UI for field data collection, and social ties to the Regen project — he raised whether integration with the iNaturalist methodology was worth exploring.
Brandon Kelly / Base Chain, Marketing & Credit Retirement UX
Brandon made a sustained case for migrating the biodiversity credit system from Celo to Base. His argument: all ReFi momentum is currently on Base — Azos, Klima, Regen Compute, TreeGen, Meme for Trees, Jimbo’s coin launcher — and deploying there gives the project immediate access to that ecosystem and liquidity. Max acknowledged the technical lift is low and said he would look into it.
On marketing, Brandon pointed to accounts like Jimbo and TreeGen as working examples of relentless X-first content strategy. Jimbo has grown to 20,000+ followers through consistent meme posting and transparent environmental mission — every like on certain accounts generates X revenue that gets routed into tree purchases or credit retirement, which the accounts make publicly known. Brandon’s read: retail buyers don’t respond to dense methodology documentation; they respond to dopamine-adjacent content with a clear environmental hook, and the conversion from engagement to credit purchase is real even if indirect. Christian was skeptical that scrollers become buyers; Brandon’s counter was that the revenue-per-like model makes every engagement directly fungible into ecological action without requiring the viewer to consciously convert.
Brandon also raised a UX problem he has been working on: eco-credit retirement receipts currently require a manual request from the buyer. In blockchain, the receipt should be embedded in the transaction by default — that’s the medium’s superpower — but no one in the space is selling it that way. He sees making retirement receipts more aesthetic and automatic as a leverage point for institutional sales.
Group / Community Growth & Strategic Direction
Christian raised the question that had been sitting with him: the same roughly twelve people keep showing up, and the group has ~100 members who joined once or twice and never returned. What is the one thing the group should be doing to grow from 12 active participants to 120? Max’s response: the movement has two paths — cultural (building habits and norms in communities until ecological purchasing feels natural) and institutional (embedding credits into standards, making them tax-deductible, getting them into procurement criteria). Neither path is fast. The working group naturally branches into subproject subgroups as it scales, which is probably the right structure rather than trying to put 100 people on one call.
Max closed by restating his core thesis for the coming months: REGEN token needs to complete the shift from reward instrument to governance tool, aligned with the proof-of-authority migration Gregory has mentioned. The Cooperative Bank remains in a private repo pending audit. Max flagged VACA as a potential standard for anchoring iNaturalist data to distributed storage (Regen ledger, IPFS, or Filecoin), though uncertainty around Regen’s proof-of-authority transition makes on-chain data storage feel slightly risky right now. Brandon expressed interest in exploring the Base-to-Regen bridge as a future integration once the chain situation stabilizes.