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# Proposal: a currency that circulates natural capital

One answer to questions of this kind is "FoR (For)."

FoR is a digital community currency that leverages blockchain technology. Based on the concept that "doing good for nature comes back into our lives," it was designed as an alternative currency that makes various forms of care visible and circulates natural capital. To address the challenges facing natural environments around the world, as well as Japan’s mountain forests and satoyama landscapes, it connects care activities that regenerate nature with the local economy through the medium of currency.

At the core of its architecture is a mechanism in which, each time the currency is exchanged, a portion is automatically returned to the "Collective Wallet (Forest Restoration Fund)." This system adopts Ethereum, one of the leading blockchain platforms in the cryptoasset space. In this way, it realizes at the code level a programmable design unlike conventional currencies—one in which "the more it is used, the richer the forest becomes." By incorporating FoR into everyday payments, our acts of consumption themselves are transformed, even without our conscious awareness, into funding for nature regeneration.

FoR also places importance not on remaining confined to digital space, but on connecting with physical sites such as green spaces and forests. It functions like an ethical and social infrastructure, serving both as a legitimate incentive for on-the-ground care activities and as a medium that encourages mutual exchange among those activities. As FoR becomes more widely integrated into society, the unequal relationship in which nature is treated as an object of extraction will come to an end, and will give way to a relationship of coexistence and regeneration in which all can thrive together.

FoR is a woven network through which every act of care for the world is recorded and handed on to the next person. Through this network, care circulates and will eventually return to our lives as substantial benefits in the form of healthy ecosystem services.

To hold this currency and continue using it is not simply to possess a new means of payment or to invest in nature. It is a declaration of participation in a society that actively engages with the future of the planet, and the choice itself of a new way of living connected to nature.

In the following, this white paper outlines the design philosophy, economic model, technical architecture, and roadmap of the regenerative coin FoR.


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