Carbon Flow

A reforestation project removes 500 tCO₂ over a reporting period. Under legacy rails, evidence drips in from field plots, satellites, and labs; months later, a registry issues credits with uneven visibility into baselines and leakage. Buyers hesitate, discounts widen, and working capital stalls.

In EDMA, the claim starts with signed MRV: methodology, baseline, sampling plan, sensor/satellite reads—all hashed into canonical evidence. Independent verifiers review the same evidence hash; when quorum passes and equality holds, the protocol mints Carbon Credit NFTs — 1 NFT = 1 tCO₂ — embedding methodology metadata and pointers to the attestations. Each credit carries a single, unbroken lineage from evidence → verification → mint.

Projects list those NFTs on the marketplace. A corporate buyer acquires the 500 tons for, say, $12,500. Settlement is in $EDM, with protocol fees enforced in-contract: 2% from the buyer and 2% from the seller. The trade collects $500 in EDM, burns $250 automatically, and routes $250 to the treasury for operations and incentives. No EDM, no action—if the payer lacks EDM, the settlement reverts but the proofs remain intact.

Retirement is final and public. When the buyer retires the 500 NFTs, EDMA records a state change that links each ton back to the original evidence and quorumed verifiers. Auditors don’t chase PDFs; they read lineage. Risk teams don’t price on reputation; they price on proof.

Outcome: projects receive faster, bankable cash flows; buyers retire verifiable tons with compliance-grade provenance; and EDM supply tightens as usage burns fees on-chain. In EDMA’s carbon flow, proof precedes value—and value reinforces integrity.