Carbon neutral blockchain nodes, on Matic
Creol is a company focused on helping individuals and business understand, lower and offset their carbon footprint.
When we founded this company, we wanted to take the most conscionable actions.
We set out to be an impact over profit business, and that meant striving to do different, not accepting the status quo as being the only way to do things.
As we designed our hardware for IoT buidling controls system Creol Environments, we didn’t want to be a part of the rising problem of e-waste.
For that reason our hardware, as a global first for the building industry, is made of four off the shelf components, that can be interchanged should they malfunction. These slot together so simply that any client can service them, instead of throwing the whole product away. It also has a thermoplastic case made from renewable resources such as corn starch, tapioca roots or sugar cane, rather than petroleum based plastics.
When it came to optimising how our on chain data is handled in our products, we looked to Matic and their layer two solution, to optimise and lower our costs, so that we could pass these savings on to our clients.
We’ve met many people during our two year journey building what Creol is today and some have expressed concerns over the potential impact of blockchain technology on the environment through its energy consumption.
So when we created our validator node on Matic, we wanted to create another first, a node that makes every transaction through it, Carbon neutral.
Carbon Neutral nodes, so how will it work?
When the Matic network enters the final stage of validator onboarding and users can begin delegating to our node, Creol will use it’s very own tokenised carbon credits to carbon offset the usage of the VPS running the validator.
Using the same metrics for power conversion and calculation methodology, each month, Creol will send the appropriate amount of CVCUs (Creol Verified Carbon Units) to the validator address and retire the corresponding amount. Users will be able to view onchain how many tons to date the validator has offset as it will be the owner of it’s own offsets.
In the beginning Creol will ensure that any transaction and all carbon footprint of the running system is offset to neutral, and in the near future we intend to use the rewards from the node to offset even further to two times positive to continue our commitment to the planet.
Supporting the Amazon forrest
The Carbon credits we will be using come from a sustainable forestry project in the Peruvian Amazon forrest.
This project supports communities to make a living in the forrest, whilst maintaining it at the same time, you can see a selection of these on Opensea.
If you or your business want to know your footprint, how to reduce it and offset it onchain with our verified carbon offsets as a subscription, do check out our site here.
