Discover open-source decentralized market infrastructure for transparent price discovery for carbon credits onchain.
Klima Protocol
The role of the Klima Protocol within carbon markets
Carbon markets are critical for achieving global climate goals, yet inefficiencies in pricing, liquidity, and market access have hindered their effectiveness. Klima Protocol is designed to solve these challenges by introducing a next-generation decentralized infrastructure that enhances transparency, price discovery, and sustainability.
Benefits from using Klima Protocol?
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Carbon credit sellers can use the Protocol’s liquidity as a counterparty.
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Buyers and businesses can access an efficient, automated provider of carbon credits for retirement claims.
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The asset class reference prices can help all market participants with price discovery.
What is Klima Protocol?
Klima Protocol represents a decentralized liquidity hub for carbon credits. It enables efficient carbon credit trades, generates fees, and facilitates and incentivizes market stakeholder participation through $KLIMA and $KLIMAX tokens.
Key components:
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Decentralized Fee Distribution: 100% of Klima Protocol’s profits are distributed to ecosystem users.
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Dual Token System: $KLIMA represents carbon-backed assets, while $KLIMAX governs emissions and liquidity incentives.
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Autonomous Asset Manager (AAM): Optimizes carbon trading, pricing, and portfolio management.
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Incentive Market: Uses staking maturities to create a yield curve and stabilize pricing.
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Carbon Standardization: Establishes uniform carbon assets and predictable delivery cycles.
By integrating DeFi with carbon finance, KlimaDAO 2.0 enhances liquidity, transparency, and efficiency in global carbon markets.
Klima Protocol's Vision
Klima Protocol is the backbone of an open, interoperable carbon market. By harnessing decentralized finance and onchain liquidity, it provides the critical infrastructure for seamless integration—empowering marketplaces, enterprises, and financial institutions to build, trade, and innovate within a unified, permissionless system.
This interoperability ensures that carbon assets flow effortlessly across platforms, jurisdictions, and applications, breaking down market silos and fostering a more efficient, scalable, and transparent ecosystem. Just as modern financial networks revolutionized global commerce, Klima Protocol is setting the foundation for the next generation of climate finance—where frictionless transactions and verifiable impact drive real-world sustainability.
Key Impact in Figures
up to $4 billion
total historical transaction volume
22+ million carbon credits
in Protocol's Treasury
100,000+
active ecosystem participants
Recognition of Klima Protocol
The potential of Klima’s work has sparked a great deal of interest in the academic community, and Klima has been cited in over 135 academic articles to date – including research by UNDP and the World Bank.
