Welcome to Klima Protocol

Klima Protocol is an open blockchain-enabled infrastructure for climate finance. At its core, Klima Protocol is an ecosystem for pricing, managing, and retiring carbon credits onchain, built to increase transparency, liquidity, and access across global carbon markets.

🌍 Mission: To make carbon markets more efficient, accessible, and verifiable by embedding climate finance into programmable, onchain systems.

🛠️ How: Through a decentralized protocol governed by smart contracts, collective decision-making, and programmable carbon markets.

🚀 Why: Because we believe carbon markets must evolve to meet the climate challenge, with tools that are efficient, transparent, and built to last.

What Is Klima Protocol?

Klima Protocol provides a blockchain-based capital system purpose-built for carbon markets.

At its core, Klima Protocol exists to serve two foundational objectives:

• Transparent carbon pricing – so that project developers are not undersold and buyers access the market efficiently with verifiable, real-time pricing.

• Access to carbon markets – by abstracting away fragmentation, intermediaries, and complexity, Klima serves as a decentralized counterparty for both buyers and sellers, making climate action programmable and accessible at scale.

The Liquidity Hub for Carbon Onchain

Klima Protocol serves as a capital, liquidity, and execution layer for tokenized carbon markets. It introduces a formal mechanism for:

• Onchain carbon asset pricing based on collective governance and market signals.

• Frictionless market access – instant settlement, token-based capital flows, and self-custody trading of carbon assets.

• Smart contract execution that eliminates intermediaries, reduces overhead, and enables capital-efficient operations across carbon supply and demand.

• 24/7 carbon index (ETF) that allows economic actors to be exposed to the spot and forwards (ex-ante) carbon markets

Utility Layer for Tokenized Carbon

Klima 2.0 is designed for composability. It allows stakeholders to directly interface with the protocol across multiple functions:

• Governance: Token holders vote on which carbon classes are supported and how they’re weighted in the portfolio.

• Liquidity provisioning: Stakeholders contribute capital to carbon-backed liquidity pools and receive a dynamic yield based on system parameters.

• Programmable infrastructure: Developers and integrators can leverage Klima’s smart contracts, Retirement Aggregator, and retirement tools to build carbon-enabled products and services.

These components form an infrastructure and economic layer that transforms how capital and carbon interact, turning passive carbon exposure into an actively governed, yield-generating market structure.

What’s New in Klima 2.0

• 🪙 Dual-token model: kVCM for utility and K2 for governance & risk balancing

• 🔁 Automated pricing mechanisms: powered by system signals, not central control

• 🧬 Economic governance: fully decentralized influence over pricing and risk

• 💥 Composable APIs: for seamless integration into fintech and climate platforms

Ecosystem Links

💻 Website 🌲 App 🔵 Carbonmark - global carbon marketplace 🐦 Twitter 💬 Discord 📺 YouTube

Developer Links

Primary GitHub monorepo: https://github.com/KlimaDAO/klimadao