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Welcome to Green Goods

Green Goods Documentation

Document, verify, and fund regenerative work on-chain

🌱Gardener

Live

Document regenerative work in the field with photos and structured evidence capture.

Audience
Field workers
Time
5 min quickstart
Open path

⚙️Operator

Live

Create and manage your garden community, approve work, and configure actions.

Audience
Garden managers
Time
15 min setup
Open path

📊Evaluator

Live

Verify impact claims, create assessments, and certify work into Hypercerts.

Audience
Impact assessors
Time
10 min overview
Open path

💰Funder

Live

Deposit into yield-bearing vaults and purchase Hypercerts to fund verified impact.

Audience
Capital allocators
Time
10 min overview
Open path

🛠️Builder

Live

Integrate with Green Goods contracts, APIs, and the shared component library.

Audience
Developers
Time
30 min setup
Open path

Green Goods Impact Value Cycle

Green Goods is a mobile-first platform that helps local communities document, verify, and fund their regenerative work — from tree planting and waste collection to solar maintenance and agroforestry.

Built by the Greenpill Dev Guild, Green Goods connects field workers to the verification and capital systems that make regenerative action sustainable. The platform works offline, speaks your language, and puts community trust at the center of every transaction.


What is Green Goods?

A regenerative compliance and local-first impact reporting platform. Green Goods captures, verifies, and funds community-led regenerative work. It connects field workers documenting environmental actions to the capital and verification systems that make those actions sustainable.

Simple & Accessible Reporting Tool

Green Goods makes impact reporting as simple as taking a photo. The MDR workflow (Media → Details → Review) guides field workers through structured evidence capture — no grant writing skills, no data science background, no blockchain knowledge required. Sign in with your fingerprint or face (no wallets, no seed phrases), and your first submission takes under 60 seconds.

An Open Path To Build Capital

Verified work doesn't stay in a spreadsheet. Green Goods turns approved work into on-chain attestations that build into Hypercerts — tokenized impact certificates that funders can purchase. Yield-bearing Octant Vaults let capital grow while it funds regenerative operations. Every piece of verified impact attracts more capital, creating a self-reinforcing funding cycle.

A Community Coordination Platform

Green Goods isn't just a reporting tool — it's a coordination layer for regenerative communities. Hats Protocol roles define who can submit, review, evaluate, and fund. Gardens V2 conviction voting lets communities signal which work matters most. Cookie Jars provide petty cash for daily operations. Together, these tools give communities the infrastructure to govern themselves transparently.


Growing Gardens

Gardens are the core organizational unit in Green Goods. Each garden represents a local community working on regenerative projects in their area.

Gardens Are Hyper Local Hubs

A garden could be a university campus maintaining solar panels in Nigeria, a waste collection cooperative in Cape Town, an agroforestry collective in Brazil, or a school tree-planting program in Uganda. Each garden has its own team, its own actions, its own governance — and its own on-chain identity.

Grow Funds At A Local Level

Each garden gets its own Octant Vault for yield-bearing deposits, its own Cookie Jars for petty cash operations, and its own Hypercerts for impact certification. Capital grows locally, governed by the community that earned it.

Garden Areas Of Focus

Gardens organize their work into five action domains, each with specific impact metrics:

DomainImpact MetricsExample Communities
AgroforestryTrees planted, species diversity, canopy cover, harvest yieldAgroforestryDAO Brasil
Waste ManagementKg diverted from landfill, recycling rate, area cleanedCape Town Sarafu
Solar InfrastructurekWh generated, panels maintained, outages preventedUniversity of Nigeria Nsukka
EducationStudents engaged, curricula completed, knowledge assessmentsUganda School-Tree-Student
Mutual CreditTransactions facilitated, participation rate, economic velocitySarafu Network communities

Create Relationships With Other Gardens

Gardens don't operate in isolation. The Greenpill Network connects gardens across regions, enabling shared learning, cross-garden evaluations, and collective funding opportunities. A garden in Cape Town can learn from an agroforestry operation in Brazil, and evaluators can assess impact across multiple gardens.


Building Community & Trust

Trust in Green Goods flows from neighbors verifying neighbors, not from distant algorithms or centralized authorities.

Governance With Continuous Signal

Conviction voting through Gardens V2 lets community members continuously signal support for specific actions and proposals. Unlike traditional voting (one vote, one moment), conviction voting lets support accumulate over time — the longer you signal, the stronger your conviction weight. This means the community's priorities emerge organically from sustained engagement, not from snapshot votes.

Trust Based Payouts

When work is verified and approved, payouts flow through transparent on-chain mechanisms. Cookie Jars handle small, frequent payments for daily operations. Vault yields fund larger initiatives. Hypercert sales reward high-impact work. Every transaction is auditable, and payout rules are defined by the community's governance configuration.

Community Garden Engagement

Every garden has six on-chain roles managed through Hats Protocol:

  • Owner — Full control over garden configuration
  • Operator — Approves work, manages actions, creates assessments
  • Evaluator — Certifies impact, creates Hypercerts
  • Gardener — Documents work in the field
  • Funder — Deposits into vaults, purchases Hypercerts
  • Community — Participates in governance and signaling

Role transitions are transparent — a gardener who consistently delivers quality work can be promoted to operator by the garden admin.


Turning Impact into Funding

The ultimate goal is a self-reinforcing cycle where verified impact attracts capital, and capital enables more impact work.

Establish A Baseline

Every action in Green Goods follows the CIDS Framework — a structured chain from raw activity to measurable impact:

StageDefinitionExample
ActivityThe work performed"Planted 12 mango trees"
OutputThe direct product"12 trees in the ground, geotagged"
OutcomeThe change produced"Increased canopy cover by 15% in zone A"
ImpactThe long-term effect"Carbon sequestration, improved biodiversity, food security"

This chain ensures that every submission connects to verifiable outcomes, not just activity logs.

Compliant Impact Reporting

Green Goods integrates with Karma GAP to aggregate approved work across actions and reporting periods. Impact data maps to grant milestones, and evaluators can export reports in formats that funders expect. Assessments are framed using the Eight Forms of Capital — measuring impact beyond just financial value:

Capital FormWhat It Measures
NaturalEcosystem health, biodiversity, soil quality
SocialCommunity bonds, trust networks, collective action
FinancialEconomic value generated, costs saved
MaterialPhysical infrastructure created or maintained
LivingFood produced, species supported, health outcomes
IntellectualKnowledge generated, research data, curricula
ExperientialSkills developed, practices learned
Spiritual/CulturalCultural preservation, connection to land

Impact Certificates

Aggregated, assessed work becomes a Hypercert — a tokenized impact certificate that represents verified outcomes. Hypercerts are:

  • Purchasable — Funders buy fractions to support specific impact claims
  • Verifiable — Each Hypercert links back to the full attestation chain (Work → Approval → Assessment)
  • Portable — Standard ERC-1155 tokens, tradeable and composable across platforms

Endowment Based Funnel

The Octant Vault system creates a sustainable funding funnel:

  1. Funders deposit ERC-20 tokens into yield-bearing vaults
  2. Yield accrues through Yearn-style strategies
  3. Harvest splits yield three ways: Cookie Jar (petty cash), Hypercert fractions (impact investment), and community endowment
  4. Returns compound — more deposits → more yield → more funding → more verified impact

Who Is Green Goods For?

Green Goods serves five roles in the impact cycle:

RoleWhat you doWhere to start
GardenerDocument regenerative work in the fieldGardener Guide
OperatorManage your garden communityOperator Guide
EvaluatorVerify impact claims and create assessmentsEvaluator Guide
Community MemberParticipate in garden governanceCommunity Guide
FunderDeposit in vaults and purchase HypercertsFunder Guide

Community Spotlights

Green Goods supports 20+ active garden communities across Latin America, Africa, and North America.

University of Nigeria Nsukka — Solar Infrastructure — Students and staff monitor and maintain solar panels that provide critical power to campus facilities. Green Goods' offline-first design is essential here — submissions happen in areas with limited connectivity and sync when WiFi is available.

Cape Town — Waste Management with Sarafu — Waste collectors in Cape Town earn Sarafu mutual credits for verified waste collection and sorting. Multi-language support enables collectors to work in their preferred language.

AgroforestryDAO Brasil — Agroforestry & DeSci — Brazilian agroforestry practitioners combine fieldwork with decentralized science data partnerships. Portuguese language support is critical for this community.

Uganda — School-Tree-Student Program — Students adopt and monitor trees as part of their curriculum, learning ecological stewardship while generating verifiable impact data. The mobile-first, low-bandwidth design ensures the app works on mid-range Android devices.


Next: How It Works

Now that you understand the platform, dive deeper into the technical workflows — MDR submissions, passkey onboarding, offline sync, and more.

How It Works