The Carbon Credit Flywheel
Carbon retirement is constitutional to the protocol.
A hardcoded 0.01%levy on every transaction's full value buys tCC carbon credits and burns them in a Retirement Vault that has no withdrawal function. The more the network settles, the more carbon it destroys — a self-reinforcing loop that pulls ESG-bound institutional capital in.
2.15M t
CO₂ retired to date
permanently burned
214.8M
tCC credits retired
irreversible
86,400
tCC / day @ 100 TPS
scales with volume
Automatic
ESG compliance
GESCO + NCMC
Retire carbon on a transaction
Carbon levy (0.01%)$5.0000
tCC purchased50.0000 tCC
tCC retired (burned)50.0000 tCC
CO₂ offset500.0 kg
1 tCC = $0.10 = 0.01 t CO₂
Retirement pipeline
1
Levy skimmed from settlement2
tCC purchased on SwapEngineV3b3
Credits sent to Retirement Vault4
Burned — no withdrawal function5
Certificate emitted + GESCO notifiedRetire credits to mint an on-chain certificate NFT.
Search certificate NFTs
Every retirement certificate is minted as a SynNFT on the African testnet. Search by token ID to verify ownership and view on-chain metadata.
NFT contractsyn1dheyat…f5yxpr
Levy split at the protocol level
tCC purchase + retirement40%
active on-chain burn
GESCO verification pipeline30%
quality assurance
Carbon Reserve buffer30%
future expansion
GESCO verification pipeline
- Retirement Vault has no withdrawal functionOnce credits land they can never leave — retirement is provably permanent.
- Quarterly GESCO auditsThe Green Economy Standards & Certification Org verifies retired volumes on a rolling basis.
- NCMC-CA-2026 national accountingRetirements roll up to the national carbon accounting standard for double-counting protection.
- On-chain certificatesEvery retirement emits an immutable certificate any institution can verify for ESG reporting.