The Luxembourg Blockchain Lab is a new initiative from five major actors of the Luxembourg fintech ecosystem: Infrachain, the LHoFT, LIST, SnT and LëtzBlock.

Evercity, a startup in the process of registering in Luxembourg, presented its smart sustainable bond (SSB) protocol during this year’s Web Summit.

The open-source protocol will enable issuance of sustainability-linked bonds on blockchain solving the impact washing problem and democratizing impact finance.

On November 11 Evercity CEO Alexey Shadrin took part in the Open Climate Dialogue “Digital automations to scale climate bonds and community-based projects organised” representing Climate Chain Coalition. Alexey elaborated on the role of blockchain in scaling sustainable finance and revealed a short demo of the end-to-end green bond open source protocol to be presented later this year.

We are happy to announce the call for contributions to the second issue of Digital SDG Finance Bulletin prepared by Evercity and Climate Chain Coalition. The main topic of the 2nd issue will be Financing Digital Green Recovery.

The workshop features active use cases related to blockchain applications for the carbon market by the Climate Chain Coalition members. The workshop will consist of 2 main parts: general introduction to blockchain and its opportunities for the carbon markets & live demonstration of use cases.

“Blockchain technology and digital finance for climate action empowerment” webinar will unite global industry leaders during the Climate Week NYC 2020. The event is organized by GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York, Climate Chain Coalition, Evercity, INATBA and IAAI Klagenfurt. Official media partner: Cointelegraph.

The online app utilizes public blockchain technology to store the information on carbon footprint of products and organizations in CO2 equivalent preventing data tampering, bringing unprecedented transparency and trust into corporate climate action and its disclosure.

The presentation of Digital SDG Accelerator took place on June 16 within Eurasian Union Day at 5-th annual SDG week. The event was attended by 300 visitors while the speakers included the vice-president of Russian National Development Corporation Denis Unzhakov and director of ITU Regional Office for CIS Natalia Mochu.

Following fruitful cooperation within Energy Blockchain Hack and Smart Sustainable City Hack, Evercity team visited German offices of EDF and EIfER — European Institute for Energy Research, which opened new opportunities for collaboration.

In 2020 Evercity has intensified its activities in the South-East Asian region. On February 4, we were presented with a great opportunity to discuss the details and relevance of the planned projects with senior representatives of ASEAN.

Continuing fruitful collaboration with ITU within United 4 Smart Sustainable Cities initiative and ITU Innovation Challenge, Alexey Shadrin held a panel presentation on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Finance. This event opened new opportunities for cooperation with ITU in other areas in CIS region and beyond.

More than 100 participants and 27 speakers from Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, and India discussed the strengthening of trade and investment cooperation, enhancing finance for sustainable development and digitalization trends. In his speech during the «Digital economy as a new direction of economic cooperation of the BRICS countries” panel, Evercity CEO Alexey Shadrin described the new global trend — the mergence of digital finance and SDG impact investment as well as risks and practical implications of this trend for BRICS countries.

At the press-conference of Climate Chain Coalition at COP25, Evercity platform for impact measurement, management and investment presented three new cases: issuance of digital passports of farmers’ produce in New Zealand, blockchain-based carbon market simulation game in Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and issuance of renewable energy certificates from a small-scale solar power plant in rural Chile.

Summing up its tech R&D experience since 2016, Evercity team has built an MVP of a digital platform which solves the main problems of impact investment market: inaccurate impact measurement, inefficient portfolio management & limited liquidity and profitability of investments. At COP25, we demonstrated some platform features and blockchain-based issuance of RECs from a small-scale solar power plant in rural Chile which gives small scale renewable energy projects new funding opportunities.

Participating NGOs will receive free smart sensors connected to blockchain network to form a global public database of trusted CO2 and pollution data.

Evercity, a smart sustainable cities ecosystem and Loch Energy, a Hong Kong-based provider of breakthrough renewable energy and biofuel solutions signed MoU the previous week. The parties agreed to start developing a platform for a new type of financial instrument, combining concepts of blended finance, carbon credits and blockchain technology to support the attainment of SDGs.

Selected as an Ecosystem Best Practice at ITU Innovation Challenge, Evercity Platform was presented at Young ICT Leaders’ Forum in Busan, South Korea. This event created new opportunities for partnership between Evercity and innovative ICT ecosystems stakeholders present in the Smart City Busan.

Following Smart Sustainable City Hack, Evercity hosted three Demo Days where teams of innovators presented their solutions and explored opportunities for cooperation with strategic partners — EDF, leader in low-carbon electricity generation, and VEB.RF, largest investment company and main development institute in Russia. More than 10 cities also expressed interest in piloting solutions.

Smart Sustainable City Hack, a hackathon supported by Russian Ministry of Construction and VEB.RF, took place in Moscow from May 31 to June 2. In mere 48 hours teams of young developers created solutions in key areas of the federal project “Smart City”, which will facilitate the development of renewable energy in Russia, help to optimize urban transportation and integrate various data for decision making in smart cities. The best teams won monetary prizes, opportunity to present their projects to VEB.RF top management and implement their solutions in the member cities of “Smart City” program, including Volgograd, Derbent and Kaliningrad.

From 31st May to 2nd June industry experts, business leaders, investors, developers and authorities will come together for a 48-hours hackathon, supported by Russian Federation Ministry of Construction. The goal of the event is to create unique solutions on the basis of AI, IoT and distributed ledger technology to implement the governmental project for Digitalization of urban environment “Smart City”.

Global industry leaders have already started the transfer to blockchain infrastructure in order to increase efficiency and widen outreach by providing new products to their customers. Evercity Lab is designed to provide a variety of custom blockchain development services and white label platform solution to assist businesses in blockchain adoption, minimizing their costs and time to market, as well as raising transparency.

Among other highlights, DAO IPCI tech team presented a live demo for experts, market players and UNFCCC employees, showing unprecedentedly low costs of launching a climate program and issuing carbon credits on blockchain in real time.

Wrapping up a successful year, Evercity has completed Asia Digital Investment tour that included multiple activities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Apart from educational events, our main goal was to conduct negotiations with corporations and funds in Asia interested in smart city technologies from Evercity portfolio.

Evercity is happy to announce partnership with an open-source DAO framework Thetta.io. The collaboration is aimed at fostering the emergence of Decentralized autonomous organizations, which Evercity believes to be a key component of truly smart sustainable cities.

On 9–11th November a 48-hour-long hackaton, dedicated to the search of innovative blockchain-based solutions for energy markets took place in “Tablica” coworking space in Moscow. As one of achievements, a team from Saint Petersburg presented the first prototype in the world for green certificates on blockchain.

On 2nd October Evercity organised a demonstration of the smart sustainable city vision based on the actual use cases of its portfolio projects to high level officials of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The demonstration became another step to the implementation of Evercity portfolio projects in the most rapidly growing Asian smart city.