One protocol. Three primitives. Two chains.
The Mālama platform is a hardware-verified evidence network. SaveCards instantiate the data layer. NFT-HEX instantiates geographic rights and reward logic. veMLMA instantiates governance and redemption. All three coordinate across Cardano (archival custody) and Base (execution and liquidity) via LayerZero OApp.
Carbon proved it. AI compute scales it.
The Mālama platform serves two upstream data streams through one verification pipeline. Carbon dMRV is the proven product, operational on Cardano preprod since June 2024 with 2,786+ on-chain SaveCards. AI compute monitoring is the scaling product, bringing rack-level power sensing to data centers in Q2 2026. Same hardware-signing architecture. Same Hex Node validators. Same on-chain anchor.
Carbon dMRV
Hardware-signed environmental telemetry from biochar and enhanced rock weathering sites. LCO₂ pre-finance issued within 90 days. VCO₂ verified credits upon registry approval.
dMRV Engine detail ↓AI Compute Monitoring
Rack-level power sensors inside AI data centers. Direct wattage per inference. Cooling water attribution. Real-time grid carbon intensity. SEC climate disclosure and EU CSRD ready.
AI Compute detail →Continuous verification, not periodic audit.
A unified MRV pipeline that ingests hardware-signed sensor streams, runs anti-spoofing and anomaly detection, batches by region and methodology into Merkle trees, and emits registry-compatible verification records hourly. MVP methodologies: enhanced rock weathering and biochar. Roadmap: forestry, soil carbon, and regenerative agriculture on the same engine.
Hardware-Signed Streams
Every sensor reading arrives ECDSA-signed at the Device DID. Signatures are validated against the on-chain device registry before ingestion. Anything unsigned or invalid is rejected at the gate.
Layered Validator Stack
Cryptographic, protocol, physical, spatial, temporal, and methodology validators each contribute to a quality score. AI z-score anomaly detection flags spoofed and physically implausible readings. Validators stake to participate and face 10% slashing for fraud.
Merkle Trees on Arweave
Validated readings are batched by region and methodology, bundled into Merkle trees, archived on Arweave for permanent data availability. Only the Merkle root is anchored on chain. O(1) on-chain footprint regardless of telemetry volume.
Registry-Compatible Output
Verra VCS, Gold Standard, Puro.earth, Isometric, ACR, and Article 6.4 output formats supported. Continuous monitoring records map directly into the methodology fields each registry requires.
Three objects. Six layers.
Each primitive bundles the outputs of multiple architectural layers into a unit operators, validators, and institutional counterparties can transact with directly.
The Evidence Object
Hardware signing, validator review, and oracle aggregation collapsed into a portable cryptographic record. Each SaveCard points to hardware-signed data with retrievable Merkle inclusion proofs. The standard evidence primitive.
The Geographic Right
An H3-cell rights and policy object. Encodes geographic rights, capacity constraints, reward weighting, acquisition policy. Not a collectible. The unit through which capital deploys infrastructure into specific climate-relevant regions.
The Governance Lock
Vote-escrowed MLMA staking. Aligns long-term protocol commitment with governance weight. Drives operator claims, treasury distribution, methodology approval, and validator set changes through veMLMA-weighted proposals.
Cardano for archival. Base for execution.
A climate data network needs more than one blockchain property profile. Mālama separates long-horizon archival functions from faster execution and liquidity-facing functions. LayerZero OApp coordinates state across the two environments as a single state machine.
Cardano
CIP-25/CIP-68 SaveCard NFTs. Datum-metadata for richer state semantics. Deterministic Plutus contracts for registry-grade auditability. Long-horizon integrity anchoring. Mainnet migration Q2 2026 post-audit.
Base
EVM L2 for faster, cheaper execution. Reward distribution, claims, LCO₂ market activity, EVM liquidity composability. LayerZero OApp bridges state with Cardano.
From verified data to tradeable instrument.
The Credit Studio is the lifecycle layer that converts dMRV output into pre-finance LCO₂ instruments and verified VCO₂ credits. Project developers monitor issuance, conversion, retirement, and registry status from a single workspace.
Project Onboarding
Site assessment, methodology selection, Genesis 300 deployment planning. Onboarding fee covers hardware capex and field installation. Sub-acre deployments economically viable.
LCO₂ Issuance
Pre-finance instrument minted against the live data stream at approximately 65% of expected verified value. Issued on Base for EVM market activity. Capital in 90 days, not 24 months.
VCO₂ Conversion
Upon registry approval, LCO₂ converts to VCO₂ verified credit. Cryptographic chain of custody from device signature to ledger record. Audit-ready, retirement-ready, compliance-grade.
Methodology-compatible, not methodology-substituting.
The dMRV engine speaks the language of every major durable carbon removal registry. Mālama's role is digital evidence infrastructure for operating conditions, environmental context, logistics traceability, and project-level data integrity, not the sole determinant of issued removal quantity. Methodology rules still govern quantification. Switch registries without switching infrastructure.