Climate finance, done correctly.
CRIOS exists because tokenized carbon, done badly, is worse than no carbon at all. We are building the integrity layer that voluntary markets have been missing — starting with a testnet pilot, not a market.
The voluntary carbon market has been clouded by bridged credits of unknown provenance, aggregated pools that obscure underlying methodology, and a culture of speed over rigor. Buyers got burned. Earners got paid pennies on the ton. Issuers couldn't differentiate.
CRIOS is an accounts and issuance platform built on top of metered generation data. It does not measure energy itself — it applies category segregation, tiering, and an append-only provenance ledger on top of data supplied by measurement partners.
Our pilot measurement partner is Karbera (karbera.com), which measures distributed generation at the plant level across Brazil. We start in Brazil because Brazil publishes an official grid displacement factor (0.3271 tCO₂/MWh) that lets metered kWh convert to tCO₂ without inventing a number. Every issuance today runs on testnet: no tokens are for sale and no funds settle. We expand market by market, only once an equivalent official factor and a metering partner exist in that market.