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Treegens AMA $TGN Part 1 (this spaces got rugged, check part 2)
Recorded: June 14, 2025 Duration: 0:20:12Space Recording
Short Summary
TreeGens launches its groundbreaking project focused on decentralized tree planting, introducing the TGN token and innovative partnerships aimed at revolutionizing ecological finance. With a projected market impact of $1.6 trillion, the initiative promises significant yields for participants while fostering community engagement through dynamic NFTs.
Full Transcription
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Hey, Matthew in the house much love Jay. is Thank you. let's grow everybody hope you're having a great start to the weekend happy saturday we got another tune for y'all before we kick things off make sure you type in hashtag let's
grow whatever you want to grow in the comments pop it in there and we will get this ama off the ground let's get it okay this is a track
made by the community for the tree gens we got a tree gen song fam we got several i think we got
like three tree gen song now this community is freaking amazing. I love you guys. Let's grow.
Tell your friends it's about to grow now.
You got to plant
what you eat.
You got to plant all your seed.
You got to water your seed.
Trees.
You got to plant
what you eat.
You got to water your seed.
You got to plant all your seeds.
Coronation, plantation, you can use it for your meditation.
You don't need doctor for your medication, just plant a seed and creation.
Coronation, plantation, you can use it for your meditation.
You don't need doctor for your medication, do it after for your medication just let us see the
don't you really feel when you
don't you feel yeah
broke the record for planting trees Give me trees, give me melody Love the nature and forestry
No one make you slow me down
And no one make you dominant
Follow me to a food full ground
Everybody let us grow Thank you. and see you all. Woo! oh man gotta love the music from the community let's freaking grow so great to see y'all here
much love this is the first ever tree gens official ama that we've done we've done a lot
of max impacts we've done a lot of let's grow lives. We've done, you know, these crazy 24-7 live streams.
And we've done a lot of advisory, TreeGens Advisory, getting the legends that we have advising us here on the spaces.
But today is all about making sure every question is answered.
I'm going to start by giving you guys some epic updates that I'm really excited to share with y'all.
updates that I'm really excited to share with y'all. And then we can answer any questions and
we can get everybody onboarded to the grow-elition, baby. It's a grow-elition. We're going to make
history together and I'm really, really pumped for it. So a couple of things. If you're just
hearing about tree jents, maybe you know a little bit, you don't know the full scoop. Let me start
by just giving you the quick little 180 on everything that we got going on. Okay. The full 360 actually, not 180. Okay. So the
whole shebang. All right. So TreeGents is tokenizing tree planting and we are leveraging
blue carbon forwards as RWAs. If you don't know what carbon is, if you don't know what blue carbon
is, let alone forwards, let me just break that down for you real quick. Carbon credits is when you're
token, you can tokenize it, but you can also just quantify it scientifically. It's basically one ton
of carbon that's been taken out of the atmosphere. You can do this by planting trees. You could also
avoid emissions. You could be more sustainable with energy. There's many different things. This
is a pretty big market. It's about 900 billion. you're summing up the whole market right now. Forecasts reach 1.6
trillion. And we plan to leverage this as an RWA. So as a Dow, we will be endeavoring to be a big
player in this market. And not just this market of carbon credits, but also biodiversity. And we
aim to back our tree tokens so that we can ultimately reward tree planters all around
the world. It's decentralized tree planting, right?
And that's what we're moving towards.
And there's several different digital assets that need to really come to fruition for this
to be possible.
And the first digital asset in this proof of tree platform, this ecosystem, is the TGN
token. TGN is short for tree gens. And it is the first token
because it not only is going to be used for governance and voting, things like this, but
it's actually essential for the proof of tree protocol to work. And this is the way proof of
tree works. So a planter, we're starting with mangroves, which is going to be all around the
world. They learn how to plant in the DAP.
They film before and after within the application.
The AI that we've trained counts exactly how many trees are planted.
And then if you have our governance token, if you have the stakes, you'll be able to
become a verifier in the proof of tree protocol.
And this earns you.
So when you stake a token, typically you get to earn more of the same token.
We have
that set up for TGN. You'll earn about 20% APY if you stake TGN just in more TGN. But you also
earn these ecological credits, right? These tree tokens. We're starting by tokenizing mangrove
trees. And basically, you will get to earn 5% of all those tree tokens that get minted by ticking
some boxes in the app. It doesn't take a whole lot of work.
You can even delegate it and share the rewards.
But that's essentially what TGN is going to be used for.
Similar to proof of stake, right?
With the proof of stake mechanism, your tokens are at stake.
If you maliciously verify, there's a penalty.
But if you do it correctly, you get rewarded.
And so TGN is at stake when they verify.
So we can have multiple verifiers being held accountable and rewarded,
incentivized, ultimately working towards this regenerative future
that we all want to live in where anyone can plant trees and earn a living.
That's what we're building towards.
That's the lighthouse that is guiding us, is to try to create that future.
Because it pisses me off that people can cut a tree can plant, you can cut a tree today and, and,
uh, get rewarded the same day. You can very easily sell wood. You can very easily sell
charcoal. It's not as easy to get rewarded by planting trees yet. It is a massive, you know,
there's a lot of value there. It's like, like I said, forecasted region, 1.6 trillion as,
as just the carbon markets. And what we're doing is we're making that accessible through the decentralized web
for the people on the ground to get rewarded, right?
Okay, so now you know about TGN.
Now you know about MGRO.
The third digital asset is for gamification
and it's also to help grow our movement.
It makes me so happy seeing these little tree gen characters
pop up in the audience.
As you see, I've been repping a tree gen character. We've also got a shout out to
MoeCoin, I think is how that's pronounced in the audience. We see Charles.TGN. So yeah,
you guys are awesome for doing that already. But basically the way this is, this is the most innovative NFT
ever created. I am pretty confident on that. If anyone has a more innovative NFT, let me know,
and I will stop saying it, but I'm quite confident. And this is what I mean by the
most innovative. First of all, it's the most dynamic, right? So it visually levels up in three
different ways. So when you fund trees, it levels up. Like a Pokemon, it's evolving.
When you plant trees, it levels up.
Like a Pokemon, it's evolving.
And when you stake TGN, it also evolves.
So there's a light in the mind to get brighter
as you fund a plant.
And then it also actually evolves like a Pokemon
as you stake TGN, right?
And by the way, it's a dynamic semi-soulbound token.
So while you can still trade the artwork, the characters, if you want to trade those,
those lights of trees funded and planted are actually soulbound.
So they're overlaid on top of whichever NFT that you connect to the DAP.
But the coolest part about all of this is that every single NFT is coming alive, so to say, as an AI agent.
So we're only making 1,000 of these.
And every one of them is going to become an influencer someday.
So we partnered with a platform where you can type in the handle of any KOL on X.
It will scan every post it's ever made.
And with one prompt, you can further customize. but it starts posting like that KOL, right?
Key opinion leader, basically, people who are quite influential here on the platform.
Already, these AI agents can make memes.
Soon, they'll be able to join us here on Spaces, use emojis, swarm different spaces, grow the movement.
And why is that important?
It's because we're going to, okay, we have a way of incentivizing this movement to grow.
I am not okay with the fact that refi, regenerative finance, is a niche within a niche.
It is, you have to have really been looking forward to find it.
Most people in crypto have no idea what this is.
Though, you know, some people in this room do, it is not yet broken out into mainstream. We need
everyone to know what it is. And that is why TGN represented with this NFT is combined with
social fi. So it's refi plus social fi equals TGN. Okay. What I mean by social fi is when you post
on X using our ticker, tagging our page, you will get points.
And these points will, will rank you on a leaderboard and every single
second you will get paid.
You'll get paid in TGN based on the points that you get.
And the points that you get depend on the real engagement that you
get on the platform.
And yes, I do mean real.
So we're not only seeing if the people engaging with your posts have their blue check marks
or things like that to basically give them an impact score, but also how many times they've
been posting?
Are they followed by any big accounts?
All these different data metrics, how long their account's been open to determine the
impact score, not of the poster, but of the people engaging with the post.
I don't care if you have the blue checkmark or not, or how many followers you have.
What I care is with the people engaging with you, are they real people?
You or your agent, by the way.
So this AI agent, like I said, is going to become more and more influential over time.
As you move towards an AGI, ASI future, these NFTs are going to become more influential,
and therefore they're going to earn the whole list.
When I say every second, I literally mean every second. So we're collaborating with flows.
Flows is using the super fluid standard where literally every second you can stream out. And
this is automated, by the way, at midnight UTC every day, the flows will automatically get
adjusted to the points and you can claim the funds any second that you want to streamed out to you via the platform.
So that's the third digital asset.
First, we got TGN.
Very important because you can't verify the trees to launch MGRO and any of the tree tokens
that we launch in the future without TGN.
It's our main mothership token.
It is the organization that is doing these centralized carbon projects
and decentralized tree planting rewards. Then we launched MGRO, our first ecological credit
with the award winning, well not award winning, it was voted first place three times on Gitcoin
grants. I'd say that's kind of, that's an amazing sentiment. And we're finally launching that,
not just as a dApp, but thanks to Valentine, also as an actual app.
We're going to be on both app stores as well as a DAP.
So you don't have to download anything.
You can literally go verify the planted trees.
Boom, happy days.
Third digital asset is the dynamic semi-soulbound NFT, this NFT agent, which pays out the people and grows the movement.
So this is just some of the ways that you can get rewarded.
I think maybe Dada Poet can shine some more light
on different ways that you'll be able to get rewarded.
So this is some exciting stuff.
Now, originally, we were going to use this BAM.fun platform.
I had mixed feelings about BAM.fun.
They are really good at bot detection.
However, they're actually going a different route.
They're going down this DEX kind of route and they're pivoting. However, we're working with
the people of bam.fun and another amazing human called Vish, who his organization is getting like
half a million transactions a day or something. He's been working with the base ecosystem in the gaming sector.
Basically, he hit me up like a week ago
and said, I love what you're doing
with tree gens and the trees and growing this movement.
We're about to break more world records.
We're gonna talk about that in a second as well.
But he wanted to partner with me on a platform
which would kind of be like PumpFun-esque, but on base and not, you know,
avoiding all the snipers and some of the bad things about pump fun, but improving it by
having really easy onboarding with, uh, like Apple pay, Google pay, blah, blah, blah, onboard
everyone.
And, and then that then, um, so by the way, this is, uh, this is kind of insane.
Pump fun, I think has been kind of, you know, not the best for the ecosystem.
Uh, however, you know, because of the snipers and things like this, however, it has got
insane amount of traction on salon.
It's literally the, the, the number one crypto app ever in terms of revenue.
And that literally their fees alone ended up being more than the cumulative market cap
of all of the tokens on pump fund, which is insane to think about.
And so what he said to us, he's like, okay, we can put 60% of all the fees on this platform
towards tree planting, which includes TGN. And, and you just want to promote it. And so what I did
is I connected the, the BAM fund guys, the social five guys with this platform to kind of integrate
the two to, so anyone who has a great project that they want to launch, they can not only do
that very easily and onboard people, but they can also engage people
and reward a community that helps it grow. So that's the kind of launchpad socialify thing.
And this is just an alpha I haven't shared anywhere. This is just a partnership that is
underway. This has already built out the launchpad. Now we're just tying together the socialify part.
But when we give out this token to a lot of people, we're balancing
that with the buy pressure to have long-term value, right? I do not want one of these charts
that goes up and down and then just stagnates, right? I've been building this for more than two
years, guys. And I don't want it to be one of those. I really do want this to be a long-term
initiative. And it's just a balance of like, okay, we also trying to grow a movement and we want to break out, right? Break out of the echo
chambers. And so, you know, we're balancing those things here, but this is just one of the ways
that we're going to have that buy burn pressure. Now, another way, and this will actually be subject to the doubt. So every token
will be a vote in our doubt, right? And what we can do, so we're going to be doing something
called carbon forwards. Carbon forwards is where you plant trees. Now, look, if I plant a mangrove
today, I think 25 years to sequester about 308 kilograms of carbon happens according to a bell
curve. So the first five years, not a lot of sequestration, not a lot of funds you can leverage to do more of the good thing. So what a carbon forward is,
is you can basically sell the future value of carbon credits to either like even Vera's a big
buyer, Shopify is some companies that know they need the credits in the future. They will buy
those credits, albeit at a discount. It's still a multiple of what it costs to plant the trees in the first place.
So we can multiply the trees, do a forward on that, multiply them again, sell a forward
on that, multiply them again.
This is how we exponentially scale, right?
And now the DAO at one point can vote to say, hey, we're multiplying.
That's great.
We also want to basically support the holders of this token that backed it in the early stages.
And so we're going to vote, okay, we're going to take a portion of those carbon forward revenues
this year, or this project, this next sale, and we're going to support the liquidity,
either through a buy burn mechanism, or just adding to the liquidity pool from the funds of
this business, right? This is a social enterprise business that we're aiming to also leverage to have long-term value built into this token, right?
Now, some really great developments on this side.
I'm in Thailand right now.
We just partnered with a carbon credit company that already has investors because it costs six figures just to do the measuring, reporting, verification and get a project like this off the ground.
But fortunately, we're partnering with them.
They already have funds.
They already have all the great government connections,
because you have to partner with the government on the mangrove land, etc. Thank you.
