Max Semenchuk / Stewardship Transition
Max opened by raising his intention to step back from the weekly call stewardship role, citing a loss of direction and energy after three years running the group. He reflected on the original premise — that tokenomics improvements would drive ecosystem growth — noting that eco-credit sales have stagnated and the path from tokenomics changes to market outcomes has become harder to trace. He also acknowledged that recent participation had dropped, with the working group effectively operating on-demand already; most weeks feature a small consistent core rather than new participants. Max framed this as a moment to formalize rather than resist that reality.
Max proposed two changes: transitioning to an on-demand call format, where sessions happen when someone has a specific topic to discuss rather than on a fixed weekly schedule, and opening the stewardship role to Brandon Kelly. He offered to maintain the technical infrastructure — website, YouTube channel, X account — and share access, keeping those assets alive without requiring his own continued active involvement. He noted that Regen Bank continues as a separate project and that he remains reachable for DMs and handoff support. Brandon accepted, expressing openness to restructuring the format substantially and focusing on execution over synchronous calls.
Brandon Kelly / EcoWealth Build & Format Discussion
Brandon described a working agent loop he has running: mining via LiftCoin (a proof-of-research protocol), followed by carbon credit retirements claimable each hour, with proceeds flowing into YouTube content and eventually a Zora-based trading asset backed by his EcoWealth token (vealth.net). He characterized it as a small but real revenue-generating loop — sub-penny scale currently — with the goal of demonstrating the model before scaling it. His longer-term project is an API that continuously does prep and planning work aligned with the Living Building Challenge, Michelin standards, and the Sustainable Development Goals, so that when capital or agent attention arrives, actionable labor packets are ready to deploy. His background is in construction safety, and he sees construction-industry labor deployment patterns as the right model for mobilizing regenerative work at scale.
Brandon also discussed the broader ReFi token market, noting that $REGEN’s low price is, for him, a buying opportunity. His EcoWealth token is paired with $REGEN in a liquidity pair, and he described the ReFi assets he holds as liquid together — when one moves, it should carry the others. He identified consistent marketing and a digestible revenue story as the missing ingredients for a market shift, and was skeptical of weekly calls as the right mechanism, preferring Telegram and building over synchronous discussion.
Brandon mentioned an upcoming call with Jimmy from TreeGen, a reforestation project with strong marketing reach — large X Spaces, government talks, and a path to accredited carbon project status. He described TreeGen’s product UX as needing significant work and said he intends to help improve it. T.R. confirmed that TreeGen’s founder holds the world record for most trees planted and is aiming to break the single-day record in the near term, which both saw as a meaningful awareness catalyst for the broader reforestation and ReFi space.
T.R. Price / Local Chimera & Gaiahub.fund
T.R. Price joined from Colorado and shared two projects. The first is Local Chimera (localchimera.com), a distributed compute protocol he built for a QVAC hackathon. QVAC is a localized AI inference system developed by Tether. Local Chimera connects five protocols to allow spare computing resources on personal devices to be tasked for compute work, with device owners earning revenue for contributing those resources. T.R.’s longer vision is for the protocol’s treasury to accumulate enough to fund compute specifically for projects aligned with regenerative principles — routing idle consumer compute toward ecological and public-good AI work.
The second project is an upcoming engagement with Gaiahub.fund, a Brazilian venture fund T.R. described as on track toward $100M in capital, focused entirely on converting degraded Brazilian farmland into thriving ecosystems, with every fund asset tokenized. T.R. plans to travel to Brazil in the coming weeks to work with the fund’s leadership. Brandon and Max both noted this as a significant potential on-ramp for the ReFi ecosystem, given the fund’s scale and its commitment to tokenization across all assets. T.R. also suggested that calls like this one would reach a broader audience if hosted on X Spaces rather than Zoom, given the difference in public discoverability.