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🌲 March in Review: 400k Total Hectares Locked (THL), Product Update, and More

QUESTION: What was the tree’s favourite thing about Star Trek?

March 21st was International Forest Day! Check out this awesome video featuring pictures from OFP project partners around the world!

Dear OPNers,

March was our biggest month of announcements yet! Hopefully you follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with all of our features and partnerships. As the ReFi space expands, OFP gains more traction and is beginning to reach far and wide. Big things are coming!

In the meantime, check out our March recap. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us!

Cheers,

OFP Team

🌍 Product Update

The product team is currently finalizing the dashboard interfaces and integrating the backend smart contract infrastructure with the front-end interfaces.

- Luke Schubert, Product Team Lead

This is the app that project operators will be using to report data from the field on their forest projects as well as for managing their project.

The devs are hard at work building the most best user experience for the project operators app. Stay tuned for more updates as the we move into field testing in the months to come!

📊 OFP By The Numbers…

How has the buildout been so far in 2022?

The numbers are starting to add up! Our forest projects reach 5 continents so far and our validators have a variety of expertise in multiple fields, ensuring the data on OFP is clean and verified.

📚 In case you missed it…

🌳 March Project Operator Announcements

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🌐 March Validator Announcements

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📖 Other Blog Posts

📖 OPNer’s Digest

Check out our curated list of content for this month

🌍 Our Climate and the Carbon Markets

IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown

A call to action. More needs to be done to solve the climate crisis. A breakdown of the IPCC report by the Guardian.

🪙 Carbon Credits

COMMENT – Blockchain for better: Untangling tokenization and carbon markets

Yes. Tokenized carbon credits should be verified. Read to learn why physical verification of tokenized credits is just as important as the traceability value offered by blockchain technology.

Blockchain and carbon: how to scale climate action while protecting investors and ensuring environmental integrity

Web 3.0 is the way to go! See how Web 3.0 has the potential to scale climate change interventions.

📈 Carbon Markets

Revealed: Timber giant quietly converts Congo logging sites to carbon schemes

Be aware of carbon fraudsters. Millions of hectares of forests were illegally issued as carbon credits in 2020.

What just happened? Distilling the year that was 2021 in the voluntary carbon market

The Future is bright for the carbon markets. Learn about the trends in price and driving factors in the carbon markets.

🗓 Upcoming Events

• April 2nd (2pm UTC): Corpsemen Workshop on Discord

• April 7th (3pm UTC): OFP X Flowcarbon X Senken Twitter Space, “The Future of the Web 3 Carbon Economy”

• April 22nd (7pm UTC): OFP x dClimate Earth Day Twitter Space

Answer: The captain’s log

Get Involved! Join the OFP Community

💀 Become a ReFi Degen (Join the Corpsemen!)

📌 OFP is hiring! Check out our job postings

🌲 Become a part of the community in the Open Forest Society Discord Server

🗣 Start chatting with the team on the official OFP Telegram Group

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