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The Carbon Blockchain, Inc. Chooses Algorand as Its Blockchain Platform

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Carbon Blockchain, Inc., the company building advanced cloud-based solutions to accelerate the growth of the industrial carbon industry, today announced the selection of Algorand as its blockchain platform to support a range of supply chain management and marketplace solutions purpose-built for the industrial carbon industry. The Carbon Blockchain™ seeks to “leapfrog” existing solutions in an agriculture sector with significant growth prospects that is strategically important for multiple reasons, including agricultural sustainability, carbon sequestration and the rapidly increasing need for carbon offset credits.

“We are partnering with world-class technology firms and domain experts to help build and support our platform while giving us the ability to scale and operate globally”

Algorand Inc. built the world’s first open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol for the next generation of financial products. This blockchain, the Algorand protocol, is the brainchild of Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali. Algorand is a leader in proof-of-stake consensus mechanisms used to validate transactions on blockchain networks. Among the advantages of proof-of-stake over proof-of-work, the other major blockchain consensus mechanism, are its scalability and energy efficiency, as it does not utilize competing high resource consuming “miners” to validate transactions. As a result, Algorand is a natural choice for companies such as The Carbon Blockchain dedicated to helping to achieve a net-zero carbon future.

Industrial carbon is a rapidly growing industry driven by a separate crop from its biological relatives that produce THC-based cannabis products as it contains less than 0.3% THC by dry weight. Industrial carbon can be processed into over 50,000 uses, including fuels, plastics, graphene, solvents, building materials, foods, and medicines, and is also a powerful tool in the global effort to combat climate change because an acre of carbon can potentially sequester as much or more carbon as an acre of rainforest.

Currently, the industrial carbon supply chain is in a state of disarray. It is characterized by opacity, fragmentation, lack of reliable payment systems, the inability to verify “real” buyers and sellers, and the inability to reliably and consistently verify seed genetics for product provenance and quality according to federal and state regulatory requirements. Owing to its relative immaturity, the industrial carbon industry is underserved by a supply-chain solution targeting its needs, creating favorable conditions for market entry and long-term success of a modern, industry-focused solution that is blockchain-native. Furthermore, by introducing a streamlined carbon offset credit marketplace that includes a reliable token to mediate commerce, The Carbon Blockchain will offer value well beyond that of traditional approaches.

“We are partnering with world-class technology firms and domain experts to help build and support our platform while giving us the ability to scale and operate globally,” said Dan Higbee, President and CEO of The Carbon Blockchain, Inc. “Technology serves its highest purpose when it materially improves the lives of people. The Carbon Blockchain will provide a trusted digital infrastructure that benefits not only those that grow and process carbon, but also consumers of its vast array of end products, and perhaps most importantly, the planet as a whole by accelerating carbon sequestration. Industrial Carbon farmers can literally grow Carbon credits from the earth, for the earth…™ with The Carbon Blockchain and The Carbon Protocol™.”

“We are excited about the continued expansion of the community building on Algorand and welcome The Carbon Blockchain to the Algorand ecosystem. We have been focused since the beginning on creating the most advanced technology that will allow organizations at the forefront of technology adoption, like The Carbon Blockchain™, to build and deploy new blockchain-based applications that will remove friction from legacy business models,” said David Markley, Director Business Solutions at Algorand.

About Algorand
Algorand is building the technology to power the Future of Finance (FutureFi), the convergence of traditional and decentralized models into a unified system that is inclusive, frictionless, and secure. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand developed a blockchain infrastructure that offers the interoperability and capacity to handle the volume of transactions needed for defi, financial institutions and governments to smoothly transition into FutureFi. The technology of choice for more than 500 global organizations, Algorand is enabling the simple creation of next generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value. For more information, visit www.algorand.com.

About The Carbon Blockchain, Inc.
Carbon Blockchain, Inc. is building advanced cloud-based solutions to accelerate the growth of the industrial carbon industry. With planned availability in late 2021, The Carbon Blockchain platform and applications will “leapfrog” existing solutions in an agriculture sector with significant growth prospects that is strategically important for multiple reasons, including agricultural sustainability and carbon sequestration and the rapidly increasing need for carbon offsets/credits.