involveMINT
{"type": "project", "title": "involveMINT", "logoImg": "bafkreiciiuaz55gx4cjgsvbpbbuzkb37zy6xbrjniqheiru43yn6w55bqi", "website": "https://involvemint.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreia46hjwmxuhevizerhcm7g5xhum6vz24becph54pivxezfjbi6xcq", "createdAt": 1745104910109, "userGithub": "involve-mint", "credentials": {}, "description": "involveMINT: Turning Impact into Community Currency\n\ninvolveMINT is building a regenerative economy by converting unrecognized community contributions—like composting, food recovery, and mutual aid—into tradeable Impact Credits. These credits serve as a community currency, enabling nonprofits, local businesses, and changemakers to access goods and services without relying on traditional money.\n\nBut these aren’t abstract tokens. Each credit is backed by foundational resources in the circular food economy—like compost generated at community recycling hubs,   soil sauce (fertilizer) created through Ecotone Regenerative ZEUS waste digesters, and surplus produce distributed through neighborhood networks. Just like gold once backed national currencies, our credits are grounded in real, regenerative value: healthy soil, food access, and community resilience.\n\nWe track these contributions through Proofs of Impact—photos, videos, and data from on-the-ground work. Once verified, credits are minted and spent within our Community Impact Network, a digital barter system that turns unused business capacity into civic capital.\n\nWith active pilots in Pittsburgh, we’ve enabled:\n\nCommunity gardens to “spend” credits on compost delivery and repairs\n\nSmall businesses to “receive” credits for services like accounting and printing\n\nSchools and youth to design circular systems where compost becomes both soil and currency\n\nBy onboarding to Optimism, we aim to:\n\nMake these impact currencies visible and verifiable onchain\n\nExperiment with retroactive public goods funding for decentralized sustainability\n\nCreate bridges between real-world circular economies and web3 regenerative finance\n\nWe believe communities can print their own money—not out of debt, but out of shared wealth rooted in soil, surplus, and service.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "involveMINT", "projectTwitter": "involvePGH"}