Inhabit token ecosystem

(A measure of stability)

A token provides a digital representation of a number of rights over a real-world asset as well as representing the value of the asset according to a chosen valuation framework.

Inhabit token is a bio-cultural capital backed token that represents a fractional ownership of a specific land and seeks to enable stable regenerative ecosystems to emerge and thrive through their management as commons. 

Tokenized lands are taken off the traditional market, lands acquire their own rights and a permanent regenerative vocation; land value shifts from having a single financial consideration to a system of plurality of values.  

Phase ONE

This tool is used to finance the creation of 10 Bio-Cultural hubs in Colombia in different bioregions and climates.

Phase TWO

The token tool will be offered to farmers, neo-farmers and a community of investors, as a way to provide the right incentives, security and motivation to reinhabit and become stewards of rural lands.

The long-term vision

To establish 400 hubs (biodiversity hotspots) across the globe, spaced about 100 km from each other, for a total of 40,000 km long backbone corridor. Each hub is minted in the corridor and provides a decentralized value to each farm, and a unitary value to the corridor itself, as a single ecosystem.

Why?

50 Years

The estimate time left of fertile top-soil globally

38%

Of global croplands are affected by degradation because of unsustainable land use and climate change

We must change the way we farm to survive as a species

0 %

Natural capital and ecosystem services are not taken into account in mainstream economics. This affects how we measure growth and consider and reward value

Millions

Of highly innovative young people lack access to land, resources and “know how” to successfully develop regenerative projects

To regenerate the world´s lands we need to steer resources and know-how in the hands of innovators and to build an economy that values ecological outputs

How does the INHABIT token works?

Value systems

Ecosystem services valuation

Nature is a finite resource, and human life on earth is bounded to nature life-supporting systems stability. Land value (token value) is represented by the ecological output it generates and grows as the ecosystem regenerates, or better say, grows as the life-supporting systems of a particular land improve to support more life, complexity, and ecological stability.

Bio-cultural valuation

Communities of users can ledger management agreements of regenerative common lands in a customised way. The various tokens would have different value & organisational systems, adapted to the unique features of the culture and the place, while being all integrated seamlessly within the same inhabit ecosystem. 

What are some of the impacts generated by the Inhabit token?

When the savings of a community are held into the soil it generates a huge incentive to participate in growing the soil; because the securities and pension of that community are represented by the microorganisms, water, pollination, and all life that is safeguarded in the ecosystem they inhabit.

For the land
  • Once tokenized a land becomes a common good, of which vocation perpetually remains regenerative farming/business.
  • The token reflects the value of a land for the ecological outputs it produces (and/or cultural), not only market dynamics.
  • The projects would restore degraded lands with perennial crops systems and regenerative best practices that produce ecosystem services such as: carbon sequestration, enhanced biodiversity, replenished watersheds, resilient food security, etc.
For investors & commoners
  • Once tokenized, a land can never be sold again outside this system, it is taken out of the speculative market, but individual investors can receive a return of investment by selling their tokens to someone that desires to join the project.
  • Investors/commoners hold a right of ownership and are granted some degree of governance, but there is a clear division between right of ownership, right of usage, right of land/nature.
  • Local investors receive multi-returns of investments: land valuation, fresh food, clear air, community, etc.
For farmers & stewards
  • Stewards receive indefinite land security (with possible free usufruct) provided that they cope with the regenerative vocation of the land.
  • Stewards could initiate and maintain regenerative practices by earning new income streams from the sale of ecosystem services credits generated through projects.