Mission
Carbon Project Integrity
The Guardian Ecosystem enables ALLCOT to create a standardized project development framework that fosters trust, transparency and compatibility across all project stakeholders. This ensures the creation of high-integrity projects while maximizing benefits for local communities.
The Guardian Ecosystem facilitates the fulfillment of methodology standards, validation body requirements, project developer needs, and community expectations, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency and transparency of the project
ALLCOT stakeholders benefit from access to accurate and comprehensive information on Hedera Guardian’s public ledger, leveraging a common set of rules and standards, fostering trust and accountability.
Transparently demonstrating how project resources are allocated on the public ledger enables ALLCOT’s stakeholders to comprehend the full scope of a project's efforts, flow of funds, and impact.
By recording the transaction cost at every stage of a project's progress, resulting carbon credits can be priced to maximize revenue distribution back to the local community.
By utilizing Hedera Guardian’s digital ledger, ALLCOT is able to minimize accounting errors, make auditing more open and efficient, and enable a more equitable emergence of verification and validation partners.
The Hedera Guardian Ecosystem establishes a secure chain of data custody, particularly in the case of drone-captured information for origination purposes. This enables ALLCOT to ensure that all project data remains intact, trustworthy and accurately tethered to each project attribute.
By ensuring that data provided aligns with the necessary frameworks, the Guardian helps meet specific industry needs and standards, while ensuring compliance with multiple reporting requirements.
ALLCOT is focused on creating products that surpass the limitations of conventional methods, shifting towards more advanced and efficient approaches to future sustainability markets.
The Guardian serves as a single source of truth, ensuring that policies and rules are standardized and compatible with other sustainability market actors. This enables ALLCOT to align financing through carbon forwards and the structuring of green bonds seamlessly across various entities within the ecosystem
The adoption of a common taxonomy within Guardian enables ALLCOT to establish a standardized language for discussing and addressing various sustainability issues. This fosters better communication and alignment for more effective and cohesive climate action.
By leveraging the flexibility and adaptability of Guardian, ALLCOT has the ability to provide various pathways for different stakeholders as the sustainability market evolves.
The Hedera Guardian Ecosystem operates as a common good, providing services to the entire ecosystem without an extractive fee-based model.
ALLCOT leverages the Hedera Guardian Ecosystem to build on and integrate various services and initiatives already established by other community members. This creates an aligned, streamlined ecosystem of sustainability market actors that avoids duplication to serve the needs of communities, investors, and project developers.
Evercity: Digital Public Infrastructure for Climate Finance
Overview
Evercity is a Berlin- and Abu Dhabi-based climate-finance technology company building the digital infrastructure that enables climate projects, service providers,governments and investors, to originate, structure, issue, and monitor sustainable finance instruments — from carbon credits and forwards to green and sustainability-linked bonds.
The platform connects all actors in one transparent, AI- and blockchain-enabled workflow, cutting issuance time and cost by up to 70%. Evercity operates as both a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform and a white-label infrastructure provider — powering sovereign deployments such as the Pearl Carbon Platform that the Government of Uganda launched in 2025.
From grassroots to Global Climate Finance WEB3 Infrastructure
Founded by Liza and Alexey Shadrin, entrepreneurs active in climate markets since 2011, Evercity grew from early reforestation initiatives and the world’s first on-chain carbon credit (2017) into a mature, regulated-grade platform for sustainable debt and carbon origination.
The leadership team brings experience from the UN, World Bank, Green Climate Fund, and Verra, united by a vision to make access to climate finance in emerging markets as fast, verifiable, and programmable as digital payments.
Evercity’s impact extends across the global ecosystem: it is listed in the UNDP Digital X Solutions Catalogue, collaborates with the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, and co-curates the Digital Innovation Pavilion (DIP) at the UN Climate Change Conferences. The Pavilion has become a flagship hub showcasing Digital Public Infrastructure for People and Planet (DPI4PP), convening governments, multilaterals, and innovators to scale digital solutions for climate action.
The company’s leadership and technological innovation have been recognized internationally, including the Sustainability Innovation Award (ICE Dubai 2025), Net-Zero Challenge Winner (HSBC & RFI Foundation), MAS Global FinTech Hackcelerator Finalist, and ITU Ecosystem Best Practice Award.
The Problem
Developing countries face high barriers to tapping climate capital: fragmented standards, complex documentation, and months of manual validation delay project financing. As a result, billions in climate funds remain unallocated while project developers struggle to access upfront capital.
The Solution: The Evercity Platform - ultimate gateway to climate finance
Guardian is the digital backbone of the Evercity stack—the rules-and-data layer that encodes methodologies, verifiability, and audit trails end-to-end. It provides the policy logic, provenance, and state changes that tie project design (PDDs) to financial instruments (green bonds, carbon forwards) and to measured outcomes (MRV). By running all core actions through Guardian policies, Evercity ensures that every claim and transaction inherits a consistent, traceable, and machine-verifiable history.
- Origination & Structuring
Projects are created as structured, machine-readable PINs/PDDs using standardized templates. Within Guardian, methodology, taxonomy, and ESG rules (e.g., ICMA, Verra, UNFCCC-aligned) are encoded as policies that validate inputs, baselines, and eligibility. The result is a living PDD (not a static PDF) with embedded compliance logic. - Issuance & Tokenization
Once policy checks pass, the same dataset flows into the issuance layer to create tokenized instruments—green bonds, sustainability-linked structures, or carbon forwards (including Article 6-compatible contracts). Guardian governs approvals, role-based workflows, investor onboarding hooks, and immutable document states—cutting friction and cycle time. - Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV)
Operational data from IoT, satellite, and third-party verifiers lands back on the backbone. Guardian policies reconcile expected vs. observed performance, trigger verification events, and write auditable state updates that drive continuous reporting for issuers, investors, and regulators. - Interoperability & Trust
Because Guardian is framework-agnostic and interoperable, each issuance—bond or forward—can be anchored to verifiable data and linked to external registries, market venues, or national Article 6 systems. This preserves provenance across jurisdictions and makes portability straightforward.
Together these modules turn complex green-finance transactions into programmable, auditable digital flows.
Scaling Methodologies and Impact
Evercity builds on the Hedera Guardian, an open-source infrastructure that transforms traditional carbon accounting methodologies into digital methodologies — standardized, machine-readable policy templates that automate the full Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) process.
Each digital methodology encodes the logic, data schemas, and calculation formulas of established standards (such as Verra’s VM0047) directly into Guardian’s decentralized policy framework. This allows every stakeholder - project developers, verifiers, registries, and investors- to interact with a shared, transparent, and auditable system of record, ensuring that data integrity is maintained from field measurement to credit issuance.
By publishing these digital methodologies as open-source policy modules, Guardian and its partners are effectively creating the world’s first public database of digitized carbon methodologies. Each policy can be reused, forked, or localized by governments, developers, and standards, accelerating global standardization while preserving methodological rigor.
Evercity integrates this Guardian library into its platform through an AI-assistant that supports quantification, validation, and reporting across multiple project types:
- VM0047 Afforestation, Reforestation & Revegetation (ARR) — fully digitized schema and calculation logic deployed in Guardian, already used for live carbon-forward issuances.
- VM0033 — Mangrove Restoration: under digitization, enabling blue carbon mangrove restoration projects for coastal ecosystems and wetland conservation.
- Gold Standard and Soil Carbon methodologies — scheduled for 2026 deployment, expanding into land-use and regenerative agriculture.
Through this architecture, every verified data point becomes a Verifiable Credential — a digitally signed proof of impact that can anchor carbon forwards, bond coupons, or sustainability-linked repayments. In essence, Guardian’s open-source digital methodology ecosystem provides the trust layer for the global climate-finance market — and Evercity is the engine that operationalizes it at scale.
Use Case: Tokenized Carbon Forwards
In 2025, Evercity issued two tokenized carbon-forward deals on the Hedera network, proving how Guardian digital methodologies convert verified climate impact into liquid, investable assets.
- Regenerating Rajasthan, India (VM0047): 75,000 forwards ($50 each) financing restoration of 29,700 ha and 4,500 farmers.
- Muyuchi Project, Peru (VM0047): 50,236 forwards ($15 each) supporting 1,200 ha of Amazon agroforestry.
Both use Guardian’s Trust Chain for on-chain validation, with Evercity APIs streaming field and satellite data as Verifiable Credentials for transparent investor reporting.
The result: a 70 % faster, lower-cost issuance model that unlocks early-stage liquidity and measurable impact, turning carbon projects into a scalable digital climate-finance asset class.
Use Case:Uganda — The Pearl Carbon Platform
In 2025, Uganda became the first African nation to launch a sovereign carbon-credit origination platform in partnership with Evercity. The system connects national institutions, project developers, and investors through a transparent digital pipeline aligned with the 2025 Climate Change Mechanisms Regulations and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
Key features:
- 10 flagship forestry, agriculture, transport and energy projects launched under the pilot phase
- Full lifecycle management — from feasibility to issuance of carbon forwards
- Role-based dashboards for the Government to be able to oversee the process and approvals
- Expansion in 2026 to green-bond and blended-finance issuance
This model demonstrates how Evercity’s white-label infrastructure enables sovereign control, data sovereignty, and local capacity-building, while linking national systems to international carbon and capital markets.
Use Case: Green Bond and Treasury Modules - Linking Finance to Measurable Outcomes
In partnership with ioBuilders and the Hedera network, Evercity is developing an open-source digital green-bond operating system designed to make sustainable finance as transparent, programmable, and auditable as digital payments. This system extends the Guardian’s digital MRV principles from the carbon market into the world of green, sustainability-linked, and carbon-linked debt, creating a unified data-to-finance infrastructure for measurable impact.
At its core, the solution combines smart contracts, stablecoin-based transactions, and real-time data oracles to ensure that every dollar raised can be linked to verified environmental performance.
Key components include:
- Asset Tokenization Studio (ATS): governs bond creation and investor whitelisting, allowing issuers to deploy tokenized securities on Hedera in compliance with Green Bond Principles, EU Taxonomy, and the Climate Bonds Standard.
- Primary Market Module: automates investor onboarding, subscription management, and USDC-settled payments, simplifying issuance and ensuring transparent, cross-border settlement.
- Treasury Module: acts as an on-chain operating account for the bond, enabling issuers to allocate, track, and report the use of proceeds in real time. It can stream coupon payments to investors and disburse project funds based on verified milestones or performance thresholds.
- Guardian Oracles: connect sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) — such as GHG reductions, renewable-energy output, or water savings — directly to the bond’s smart contracts, enabling impact-linked coupon adjustments and automated reporting.
Building on this foundation, Evercity introduces carbon-linked bonds — an evolution of green debt in which financial performance is directly tied to verified carbon outcomes. Projects financed by these bonds use Guardian-based digital methodologies (e.g., VM0047 ARR, VM0033 Blue Carbon) to generate tokenized carbon forwards or credits. Verified results are fed back into the bond’s smart contracts through Guardian Oracles, automatically adjusting coupon rates or triggering milestone-based disbursements.
This architecture transforms green and carbon-linked bonds from static, paper-based instruments into dynamic, programmable financial assets, where environmental outcomes are codified into the financial logic itself. The result is a new paradigm of impact-verifiable finance — investors gain full traceability of their capital flows, issuers automate compliance and disclosure, and regulators access transparent audit trails linking funds raised to real-time, measurable sustainability results.
Looking Ahead
As Evercity enters 2026, key milestones are underway — the Digital methodologies for forwards issuance (VM0047 and VM0033 live, VM0045 & Gold Standard methodologies in progress), Verra integration for automated PIN/PDD validation, and the first programmable green-bond issuance on Hedera. New sovereign platforms in African countries and an AI Structuring Module for funding automation mark the next leap in scaling digital climate finance.
By 2030, Evercity aims to power 10,000+ projects and over 100 million tCO₂e of verified reductions, channeling transparent capital to where it matters most.
We invite governments, development banks, and financial institutions to partner with us in building the Digital Public Infrastructure for Climate Finance — from national carbon systems to programmable digital bonds.
Evercity are proud to work with Guardian’s ecosystem of partners:
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