Mission
1. CarbonNo Insentive Token (CARBON). This is an incentive token that is awarded for a specific amount of carbon reduced by a carbon-reducing building project registered with CarbonNo. Tokens are only generated when carbon is actively reduced, making it a genuinely carbon-negative token. CarbonNo verifies this amount of carbon reduction through either utility data or revenue-grade measurement of energy usage at the meter level.
2. CarbonNo Carbon Credit NFT. Develop and implement carbon credit standards for digitally traded carbon credits through NFTs. By doing this, we wish to achieve the following goals:
- Transform existing legacy credits into digital NFT format.
- Store carbon NFTs on the blockchain, ensuring safety and transparency.
- Monitor credits transparently and automatically, making it impossible to double-spend or counterfeit credits.
- Generate verified carbon credits from EE upgrades and carbon-sequestering projects.
- Democratize the carbon credit and the EE market allowing everyone to invest in a carbon-neutral future.
3. CarbonNo Platform. This is a blockchain-based carbon trading platform that allows users to:
- Register/Verify new CarbonNo projects with CarbonNo self-sovereign identity (SSI) framework.
- Trade carbon credits (as NFTs) with our incentive token.
- Stake/Invest CNC coins to one of our Proof of Energy (PoE) stake pools and get rewarded for doing their part to reduce carbon.
- Monitor projected reward distributions.
Team
Nikos Karagiorgos
Nik is passionate about innovation and reform that minimizes the carbon footprint. He has widespread experience working in the energy sector and was involved in billion-dollar solar projects such as the Genesis project in
California and the Solano project in Arizona. Nik co-founded EverWatt, a leading Energy Service Company that provides energy-efficient lighting upgrades for commercial projects. Nik oversees the design, engineering, and
manufacturing of energy-efficient products. Furthermore, he drives strategic partnerships, guides new opportunities, and manages the licensing relations in Asia and the United States. Nik first got involved in crypto in
2010 and Cardano specifically in 2017.
David Perlman
Dr. David Perlman worked in information technology and database development for many years before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he leveraged behavioral economics and game theory to study attention, emotions and identity in the neuroscience of mindfulness. Subsequently he worked in the User Research team at Twitter, and as a data scientist and consultant on emerging information threats at Leviathan Security Group. He has presented on social media and influence campaigns at SOCOM SOFWERX, the Black Hat conference, Naval Postgraduate School, CDANS, Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), and has been interviewed in publications including the Wall Street Journal. He is also lead author of the first discussion of social media and influence campaigns in the Strategic Latency book series published by LLNL, and published an article on the mathematics of modern big-data marketing in Cyber Defense Review. In 2021 he combined his knowledge of incentive-compatible economic systems with the principles of social engineering in information security to develop the technology of Validated NFTs (VNFTs), which he brings to the team at CarbonNo.
Ioannis Agadakos
Ioannis is experienced in both academic and corporate environments. He served as an Advanced Computer Scientist in SRI International, tackling hard cybersecurity problems during his three-year tenure. He is currently a research
scientist in Khoury College of Sciences at Northeastern University, working in neural binary analysis and software hardening. He holds a U.S. patent, and his research is published and awarded in top-tier conferences in
software hardening, system security, deep learning, and the Internet of Things. He is well-versed in all phases of software development and has worked with a plethora of teams with diverse backgrounds. He holds a Ph.D.
from Stevens Institute of Technology, a B.Eng, and an M.Sc in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete.
Konstantinos Kleftogiorgos
Computer Science Ph.D. researcher/ Software engineer. Koss has worked on security projects for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Koss has studied cryptography and
has a Master’s degree in distributed systems/ networks. He has a passion for blockchain, while his main research focus is operating systems, cyber/ systems security, and reverse engineering.
Cyrus Liu
Haskell/Plutus developer, second cohort Plutus pioneer, Computer Scientist. Cyrus holds a master’s degree in information security, and Ph.D. in Computer Science with a research focus in programming languages, formal verification, and systems security. He developed a sensitive API monitor for the Android mobile network and a binary decompilation toolchain, the first automatic verification tool that combines binary analysis with formal methods. His ultimate goal is to help the world with secure, safe, and fair software systems. Blockchain technology is bringing his goal closer to reality.
Dave Llorens
The CEO of EverWatt Lights and an electrical engineer. Before EverWatt, started One Block Off the Grid and raised $6MM from NEA, which sold to NRG in 2014 for $120 million. Before that, had started solarpowerrocks.com, which
sold to Solar Reviews, Inc.