Regen Network

Regen Network is a technology company and network that builds digital public infrastructure for registering, verifying and financing ecological regeneration projects. Its stack has three layers: Regen Ledger, a public proof-of-stake blockchain for tracking ecological data and assets; Regen Registry, a platform, framework and process for quantifying, monitoring and trading ecological credits and managing other ecological claims and contracts; and Regen Market/Regen App, a peer-to-peer marketplace where ecocredits are bought and sold and project stories are published. The native token, $REGEN (earlier referred to as XRN), is used for staking, network security and governance, and protocol upgrades and parameter changes are voted on by token holders.

Regen Registry supports carbon, biodiversity and environmental stewardship credit types and allows communities to author their own protocols and methodologies. Listed credit protocols include the AEI Regenerative Soil Organic Carbon Methodology under The Regenerative Standard, the SeaTrees Crediting Protocol for Marine Restoration, the Terrasos Protocol for Issuing Voluntary Biodiversity Credits, the ERA Brazil Methodology for Biodiversity Stewardship Credit, GHG Benefits in Managed Crop & Grasslands Systems, and the #PristinePlanet stewardship credit class. Featured registered projects include the El Globo Habitat Bank in Colombia (340.11 hectares), Philipson Estate Blaston in Leicestershire, England (267 hectares), and Ancestral Stewardship in the Sharamentsa Community in Pastaza, Ecuador (10,000 hectares). The registry also offers services spanning design consultation, blind peer review and validation, credit protocol administration as a neutral third party, and blockchain/platform integration.

The network is organized around multiple entities and participants: Regen Network Development, PBC (RND) builds the tooling; Regen Foundation supports grassroots communities through microgrants, a Community Staking DAO and commons-based governance frameworks; and a $REGEN Tokenomics Working Group designs incentives for real-world-asset developers. Development is open source, with more than 100 public repositories on GitHub covering regen-ledger, the x/ecocredit and data modules, JavaScript client libraries, RDF/SHACL registry data standards, and newer work on agentic tokenomics and governance, a sensor SDK for ingesting real-world evidence, and an MCP agent that funds ecological regeneration from AI compute usage.

Business model

Regen Network operates a blockchain-based registry and marketplace for ecological credits, combined with paid technical and advisory services for credit developers, funders and institutions — including protocol and methodology design consultation, coordination of independent peer review and public comment, third-party administration of crediting protocols, and integration of registry and ledger technology into partner platforms. A native token, $REGEN, secures the proof-of-stake ledger and carries governance rights; the Regen Foundation provides microgrants and supports community institutions.

Revenue-relevant activities described include technical and consulting services for credit developers, funders and institutions (registry deployment, asset design, tech-stack integration), registry services covering protocol design, review and validation, and credit protocol administration and issuance, plus a marketplace for buying and selling ecocredits and prefinancing projects.

Traction

Partners and participants include ecometric Ltd., ERA Brazil, Kulshan Carbon Trust, Fundación Pachamama, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance, EcoToken, Terrasos, Virridy and SeaTrees. Registered projects span Colombia, the United Kingdom and Ecuador, including a 10,000-hectare ancestral stewardship project in Pastaza, Ecuador. Project developer Ecometric reports that 100,000 of its ecocredits have been sold. Before mainnet, an incentivized testnet ran with 35 participating validators. The GitHub organization hosts 103 public repositories, with regen-ledger the most starred.

Latest developments

Mid-2025 communications from the network addressed the evolution of the $REGEN token and the rebranding of the Ecocredit Builder Lab to the Regen Builder Lab to reflect a broader set of applications beyond ecocredits, and covered a declaration from the Indigenous Pre-COP Summit in Brasília on 5 June 2025. Recent open-source work includes an agentic tokenomics and governance framework targeting 65-75% automated governance, a sensor SDK acting as a universal ingestion layer for the Regen Network Claims Engine, regen-compute (an MCP agent funding verified ecological regeneration from AI compute usage), knowledge organization infrastructure research, and a funder-facing Regen Registry capital campaign site.