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Kyoto Whitepaper
Kyoto Whitepaper
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Whitepaper
The Kyoto Platform is the only platform to feed decentralised live carbon credit
prices direct from oracles feeding the Kyoto Platform a non biased, live
decentralised price.
Running delegated proof of stake (DPOS) token, holders receive portion of each
certified carbon credit that is transacted on the platform; for validating and
authorising the transactions.
The Kyoto Platform offers the easiest access to certified carbon credits on the
market- Globally, offering a DeFi ‘ETF' alternative. This allows anyone to
invest, own and trade 'wrapped' tokenised carbon credits. (Kyoto Credits).
The Kyoto Platform IDO launchpad releases exclusive carbon conscious blockchain
based projects to its community. Invest consciously.
The Kyoto Platform offers a time and cost saving alternative for companies that
are required by law to offset utilising carbon credits. Lower fees, quicker
settlement.- Complimentary NFT certificate per carbon ton offset.
Built on top of the Cardano Blockchain, the Kyoto Platform & Token capitalises
on transaction efficiency, which drastically reduces fees by more than 99% as
compared to ETH- based solutions.
Market stats
The Carbon Commodity market grew 20% in 2020 to $272 billion, and is set to grow
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to a multi trillion dollar market by 2040, in order for governments to hit
climate change pledges.
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over to a more efficient, conscious DPOS network; lowering the carbon
footprint of the project.
Both the Carbon Commodity & Crypto currency markets are growing in value. With
the Kyoto platform you can use your carbon credits as collateral to buy and
invest into cryptocurrency. You can also invest into the carbon commodity
markets without spending any crypto by receiving a collateralised loan to buy
Kyoto Credits; which are wrapped 1-1 with certified, audited Carbon Credits.
This whitepaper, and the Kyoto Protocol with associate tokenomics, will continue
to evolve over the next several month leading to a full-scale launch in 2022.
The launch is subject to the release of Cardano's Goguen hard fork. We deeply
believe in developing with the community and offering a risk-less opportunity
for everyone to participate; by way of an ISPO. Currently there are no tokens
for sale by way of private sale. If you are offered Kyoto Tokens or Kyoto
Credits it is not from our team.
Market stats
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Mirroring the stellar rises in both markets is our global carbon footprint.
Kyoto Protocol is a community driven platform that bridges two major markets on
an efficient blockchain to help raise awareness and combat climate change
itself. We do not own the planet, we share it. Our thesis is to create a diverse
ecosystem under the Kyoto Protocol umbrella that is owned and driven by its
community, with the sole aim to become THE hub for all sustainable projects
built on blockchain technology, and the worlds leading Carbon credit exchange.
Offering the upmost transparency and quickest settlement time available. Climate
change is real and all of the Kyoto Trusts staking profits go towards
sustainability projects.
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Our Why.
The team at Kyoto Foundation share the same core values and respect for our
planet as we do for trustless, open source solutions. We are cryptocurrency
veterans that have amassed a virtue of experience from a diverse range of
projects. From regulated activities to advisory on charitable projects
implementing AI and blockchain technology. Investor by heart, our founder was
looking into different markets that are expected to grow in the next five years.
The fundamentals of the carbon markets are extremely bullish, with the biggest
effort in human history to fight climate change expected to ramp up 10 fold by
2040. After reviewing the accessibility of the carbon markets alongside some of
the issues surrounding the transparency and monitoring of Certified carbon
credits it became apparent that utilising a trustless smart contract driven
platform would aid the carbon commodity market, to make it safer, more
transparent and to ensure that carbon credits are not re sold.
Our Vision.
We envision our platform to be split into two parts when fully launched. 1. The
Kyoto platform; a trustless market bridge with ancillary services such as
lending, borrowing, staking, certified offsetting, IDO launchpad, IOHK ERC
bridge, NFT functionality. Owned and driven by the community, 100% of all
platform profits go to staking pools. 2. The Kyotoverse; A virtual city with
virtual 'clean projects' that generate the currency of the kyotoverse. (Virtual
carbon credits in the Kyotoverse). The virtual KyotoVerse currency runs on the
blockchain and is used to purchase real-estate within the KyotoVerse. Owners of
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virtual land can create virtual offices to host meetings, or advertise carbon
conscious projects.
Our Vision.
Accessing gains with Kyoto Protocol
If you search or try to obtain Carbon credits you are introduced to different
countries pricing. Prices of carbon can vary from country to country which
offers even more confusion. Kyoto Protocol offers a simple effective way for
investors, traders or carbon conscious offsetters the ability to gain access to
carbon credits on our platform and add them to there investment portfolio. Kyoto
Credits are wrapped asset versions of certified carbon credits pegged to the
european price index. In the future if the carbon commodity market remains
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compartmentised we will bridge different carbon credits outside the european
union to other markets such as the United Kingdom, Asia and USA; with seperate
pricing. Always decentralised.
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Carbon offsets are a form of trade. When you buy an offset, you fund projects
that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The projects might restore forests,
update power plants and factories or increase the energy efficiency of buildings
and transportation. Carbon offsets let you pay to reduce the global GHG total
instead of making radical or impossible reductions of your own. GHG emissions
mix quickly with the air and, unlike other pollutants, spread around the entire
planet. Because of this, it doesn't really matter where GHG reductions take
place if fewer emissions enter the atmosphere. Carbon credits are the biproduct
of clean projects and are certified by regulatory bodies in the carbon they will
capture. The result of this creates a secondary market; which is currently
fragmented with accessability issues. Kyoto Protocol is here to change this.
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Oracles
An oracle is a trusted source of information (e.g. a data feed) that gives
smart contracts the data needed to execute an action. Oracles can track the
price of an asset and provide a prediction of the asset in the future. The
advantage of having oracles is that it provides the smart contracts with the
ability to execute an action based on external events (such as a bank
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transfer). This is a crucial aspect of the functionality of crypto-backed
loans. Kyoto Protocol will utilize oracle technology to fetch the price of the
unwrapped
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parameters such as live asset pricing, user loan to value ratios,
liquidation events, and notification events for users. Additionally, the Kyoto
oracles maintain bridges between the blockchain wrapped assets and Certified
Carbon Credits held in the Kyoto Trust; meaning that the number of Kyoto
Credits cannot exceed the total number of Carbon credits held.
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Blockchain’s mainstream moment will come, not when people understand how it
works, but why they need it. Kyoto Protocol takes is the first community
driven project accelerating the efforts of previously forgotten legislation
left behind by our governments. Empowering blockchain to pave way for a
cleaner, greener future. Kyoto Protocol and its community picks up where
governments left. Our strategy consists of four main components:
BUILDING ON A STRONG COMMUNITY
Our focus on building the community will serve to both create the first layer
of customers ready to use Kyoto Protocol once it is operable and secondly as
ambassadors & cheerleaders in spreading the word. The community building will
be spearheaded by creating stakeholders through the Initial Stake Pool
Offerings (ISPO) and referrals. Any tokens that fail to sell or airdropped
will be used to incentivise people to download our App, learn about carbon
usage and ultimately become a part of something great.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
We are working on partnership agreements in the background with other
crypto/blockchain platforms that will include Kyoto Protocol as a product for
their customers. In addition, we will be partnering with centralised exchanges
to have our token listed on their trading platforms. In addition to this, away
from cryptocurrency and blockchain we are in talks with liquidity providers
that own certified carbon credits to onboard and bring liquidity into our
platform. We hope to launch Kyoto Protocol with a strategic partnership of
10+m tons of certified carbon credits, this will allow us to build a strong
base for larger corporations to offset with our community owned platform. The
bigger the companies the more carbon credits, the more carbon credits traded;
more dividends to KYOTO token holders paid out.
INFLUENCER & STRATEGIC MARKETING
We will use both Influencer and Content Marketing to first create attention
about the ISPO, build the community, and acquire further customers. Our
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Influencer Marketing approach will cover both the use of Crypto Influencers as
well as ensuring Crypto Thought leaders & Celebrity Endorsements.This includes
sponsorships of podcasts & youtube channels and cooperations with Twitter,
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focus on influencers with personal finances that operate outside the crypto
sphere.Our Content Marketing will equally be focused on both the specialised
Crypto Media as well as the mainstream press. It will also drive traffic
through SEO linking to our own domain ensuring that we attract the customers
actively searching the net for Carbon offset, Carbon credits, climate change
and others.
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KYOTO
KYOTO PROTOCOL
PROTOCOL
NFT's WITH A REASON
Paying homage to our community and an outside the box way of aproach in
guildines to our core beliefs; we are launching NFT's that are used as access
keys to our off grid, sustainable lodges in the Kyoto Trust's forest projects
globally. Each conservation project is funded by the staked tokens of the
Kyoto Trust. We offer further value in building small eco farms per project to
sustain our research, development and understanding in ancient microbial
ecosystems. The Kyoto Trust issues 12 NFT's that will act as keys to gain
entry to our private lodges. Each NFT represents one calander month stay at
our eco lodges. For your family, friends or scientific research. The NFT's
will auction over the Kyoto Platform once the projects are complete. 3 NFT's
are donated to local scientific research groups/ universites to offer students
am alternative, hands on study option.
CONSERVATION PROJECTS
Revenue generated from platform profits by way of the Kyoto Trusts tokens
staked are placed into conservation projects alongside carbon capturing
projects globally. Ancient woodlands are an integral part of our ancesteral
routes and house millions of microbial networks that could help fight against
virus, illnesses and in some cases cancerous cells. Kyoto Trust will play its
part in securing and conserving natural habitats and potentially life saving
cells for future research.
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mitigation works alongside mass tree planting globally.
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ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENCY, OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT. NO PART OF
THIS DOCUMENT IS LEGALLY BINDING OR ENFORCEABLE, NOR IS IT MEANT TO BE. THE AUTHOR DEVELOPED THIS
DOCUMENT BASED ON AN EVALUATION METHOD GENERALLY ACCEPTED BY THE CRYPTOCURRENCY COMMUNITY (QUANTITY
THEORY OF MONEY AND DISCOUNTED CASH FLOW ANALYSIS) AND RELIES ON A GENERALLY ACCEPTED SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC
THOUGHT (MONETARIST SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS). IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY
AREA IS STILL VERY NEW. There is very little historical data, past performance results, or academic
research on the topic of cryptocurrencies when compared to the historical data available for standard
stocks and equities, let alone the lack of data available for tokenization, economics, and long-term
valuations of these digital assets. STOCKS (EQUITY) HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE EARLY 1600S, AND IT IS
ONLY IN THE PAST 100 YEARS THAT WE HAVE BEGUN TO HAVE MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND WIDELY ACCEPTED VALUATION
MODELS. HOWEVER, THEY ARE STILL SUBJECT TO BIAS AND INTERPRETATION AND SUFFERED FROM THEIR INPUTS’
QUALITY. ON THE OTHER HAND, CRYPTOCURRENCIES HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE 2008, WITH A BROADER RECOGNITION
AROUND 2016 AND AN EXPLOSION IN THE NUMBER OF TOKENS IN 2017. AS SUCH, IT IS WAY TOO EARLY TO EVALUATE OR
COMMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE, MONETARY POLICY, AND MODELS BEHIND ANY OF THEM. AS A RESULT, THE AUTHOR OF
THE CURRENT DOCUMENT PREFERS TO RELY ON SOUND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES BACKED BY DATA AND REASONABLE
ASSUMPTIONS. FURTHERMORE, THE CURRENT MODEL RELIES ON SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS, FORECASTS, AND REQUIREMENTS
EXPLICITLY SPECIFIED BY THE COMPANY BEHIND THE TOKEN OFFERING. AS SUCH, THIS MODEL IS ONLY AS GOOD AS
THOSE ASSUMPTIONS ARE. ANY SIGNIFICANT DEVIATION FROM THE INPUT NUMBERS WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY IMPACT THE
OUTPUTS OF THIS MODEL. THE MODEL PRESENTED HERE AIMS TO PROVIDE A FAIR TOKEN PRICE VALUATION BASED ON THE
MERITS OF THE BUSINESS BEHIND IT (AS FAR AS THEY ARE KNOWN/ESTIMATED AT THE TIME OF THE CREATION OF THIS
MODEL) AND CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR ANY POSSIBLE SPECULATIVE ACTIONS AND MARKET MANIPULATION BY ANY PARTY AS
WELL AS FOR IRRATIONAL MARKET BEHAVIOR. NONE OF THE INFORMATION OR ANALYSES IN THIS DOCUMENT IS INTENDED
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FROM THOSE INDICATED IN THESE STATEMENTS. NO STATEMENT IN THIS DOCUMENT IS INTENDED AS A PROFIT FORECAST.
GIVEN THAT THE “REGULATIONS” FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY IN MOST COUNTRIES AT BEST ARE HIGHLY AMBIGUOUS OR
COMPLETELY NON-EXISTENT, EACH BUYER IS STRONGLY ADVISED TO CARRY OUT A LEGAL AND TAX ANALYSIS
CONCERNING THE PURCHASE AND OWNERSHIP OF CRYPTOCURRENCY AND TOKENS ACCORDING TO THEIR
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NATIONALITY AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE.EVERYTHING IN THIS DOCUMENT IS THE AUTHOR'S OWN WORK, WITH EXTERNAL
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TEXTS, CHARTS,GRAPHICS, AND FORMULAS, MIGHT BE IDENTICAL WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY THE SAME
AUTHOR.THESE INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE EXPLANATION OF SOME FORMULAS, MODELING TECHNIQUES,
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Thankyou!