Data Buyers · Licensing

Truth in a sea of unverified data.

Most environmental and physical-world data is estimated, self-reported, or impossible to audit. Mālama licenses the opposite: hyper-local datasets where every reading is signed at the hardware edge and anchored on chain. For enterprises, registries, insurers, and researchers who need ground truth they can prove. Data licensing is opening soon, so register your interest or talk to our team.

01 · The trust problem

Estimated data can't settle anything.

Legacy environmental data is modeled top-down, self-reported, or signed into a PDF twelve to eighteen months after the fact. When money, policy triggers, or model outputs depend on it, that gap is a liability. Mālama measures at the edge and signs at the instrument, so the record is verifiable at the source.

Cryptographic verifiability

Signed at the edge

Every data point is signed at the hardware edge in a tamper-resistant secure element, preventing spoofing and giving your systems, and smart contracts, a record they can trust.

Hyper-local granularity

Density top-down misses

Operator-deployed networks reach spatial density that top-down government or corporate sensors cannot match affordably. Real coverage where you actually need a reading.

Direct from source

No broker margin

License data directly from the network of hardware operators through programmatic APIs, without legacy broker margins and unauditable provenance in between.

02 · Use cases

One verified data layer. Many markets.

Organizations across climate, finance, infrastructure, and AI build on hardware-verified data. The same signing pipeline serves every sector below.

Climate & research

Ground truth

High-fidelity environmental data for climate modeling, extreme-weather tracking, and macro-ecological research.

Carbon accounting

Registry-grade dMRV

Hardware-signed proof of removal and localized emissions, registry-compatible for compliance-grade reporting without greenwashing.

Parametric insurance

Trigger data

Smart-contract payouts triggered by unalterable, real-time hazard sensors for flood, drought, and wildfire risk.

Prediction markets

Settlement oracle

Incorruptible real-world data oracles that settle decentralized markets on physical, sensor-verified outcomes.

AI & data centers

Edge & power telemetry

Multimodal edge-device streams and rack-level power telemetry for training and governing localized AI models.

Energy grids

VPP balancing

Real-time production and consumption metrics from Virtual Power Plants to balance decentralized energy loads.

Smart cities

Hyper-local metrics

Air quality, noise, and traffic metrics from citizen-operated sensor networks, at neighborhood resolution.

Precision agriculture

Field-level signals

Soil moisture, hyper-local rainfall, and crop-health tracking to optimize yield and resource allocation.

03 · The buyer advantage

Legacy brokers measure top-down. We measure at the edge.

Legacy MRV signs a report long after the fact. Mālama signs the reading at the instrument, the moment it is taken, with a key that never leaves the silicon. Change one digit and the signature breaks.

The chain of custody starts at the sensor, not the spreadsheet, so a buyer, registry, lender, or regulator can verify the record directly, no trusted reporter required.

The signature, not the spreadsheet, is the source of truth.
04 · How licensing works

From query to API, in four steps.

Define what you need, and signed, audit-ready data is delivered into your systems. Fulfillment and delivery details are scoped with our data team as licensing opens.

01
Define query
Specify parameters: location radius, sensor type (CO₂, weather, soil), and reading frequency.
02
Register & scope
Request a data stream and our team scopes coverage, licensing terms, and delivery for your use case.
03
Network fulfillment
Distributed nodes capture, cryptographically sign, and anchor the data on chain at the point of measurement.
04
Consume API
Retrieve normalized, verifiable, audit-ready data directly into your enterprise backend or smart contracts.
Data licensing is opening soon and is contact-gated. Register interest and our data team will scope datasets, coverage, and terms for your use case as licensing opens.
05 · Get early access

Build on verifiable world data.

Register your interest and our data team will follow up to scope datasets, coverage, and licensing for your application as data licensing opens.