Project Finance Analyst, Flowcarbon

Flowcarbon’s approach is to offer eco-oriented projects the ability to tokenize their carbon credits and sell them forwards, thereby accessing funding faster, and with just a 2% tokenization fee (as opposed to the more typical 30%). For purchasers, credits stored on the blockchain offer true observability and transparency.

For this, Flowcarbon has attracted significant interest from backers including Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Samsung Next and General Catalyst - in spite of the chequered history of Flowcarbon founder Adam Neumann. Detractors, however, point out that the blockchain solves for transparency, but leaves the issue of traded (instead of retired) tokens unresolved. Whilst it may not go far enough, however, Flowcarbon’s solution theoretically provides, at minimum, a partial solution - and that’s certainly an improvement on the current murky market.