Getting Started as a Funder

Overview

Funders play a critical role in the Green Goods ecosystem: they supply the capital that keeps garden operations alive between harvests, approvals, and funding cycles. The cleanest current funder flow is simple: open a garden, use its treasury drawer, deposit into the vault, and monitor the garden's verified work over time.

As a funder, you can:

• Deposit into impact vaults — Your principal supports garden operations, and harvested yield is routed to impact while claim value stays flat by design
• Inspect Hypercert-backed impact — See how gardens package verified work into impact certificates and where certificate flows may fit your strategy
• Track real impact — Every claim is backed by EAS attestations verified by community operators
• Choose your gardens — Support specific communities and bioregions that align with your values

How It Works

1. 1

   Sign in and choose a garden

   Open the app, pick the garden you want to support, and review its recent work, assessments, and treasury health.

2. 2

   Open Treasury

   From the garden view, open the Treasury drawer to see supported vault assets, your balance, and any existing deposit position.

3. 3

   Deposit support

   Choose the asset and amount, approve if needed, and submit the deposit. Your principal stays in the vault while routed yield funds garden activity later.

4. 4

   Track outcomes

   Monitor the garden's approved work, assessment cadence, and treasury activity so your funding decision stays grounded in visible evidence.

Why Verified Impact Matters

Traditional impact funding relies on self-reported metrics. Green Goods changes this:

Traditional Funding	Green Goods Funding
Self-reported impact	Community-verified attestations
Annual reports	Real-time attestation chain
Trust the organization	Verify on-chain
One-time grants	Routed endowment funding + impact tokens

Every piece of funded work has a verifiable chain: Gardener submission → Operator approval → Evaluator assessment → Hypercert. Each step creates an on-chain attestation you can independently verify.

Best Practices

Choose your funding approach

If: You want passive, sustainable support

Do: Deposit into a garden vault. Your principal stays in the endowment while harvested yield is routed to operations.

Then: Monitor harvest activity, routed yield, and garden operations over time.

If: You want direct ownership of verified impact

Do: Purchase Hypercerts from gardens with strong attestation histories.

Then: Review the attestation chain backing each Hypercert before purchasing.

If: You want to influence community priorities

Do: Combine vault deposits with conviction voting to signal which work matters most.

Then: Participate in governance to help shape garden strategy.

• Always verify the attestation chain before purchasing Hypercerts — check EAS explorer for approval records
• Start with smaller deposits to understand a garden's operational cadence before committing larger amounts
• Treat vault deposits as mission-aligned principal support, not as a depositor PPS-up investment product
• Review garden assessments across the Eight Forms of Capital for holistic impact understanding
• Diversify across gardens and bioregions for broader impact coverage

What's Next

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