ORIGIN CHAIN Networks

A future of food we trust

Open innovation, open standards and open source. Sovereignty for grower collectives on the open web.

Purposeful data sharing, and meaningful impact assessment for food, farm and field. Mobile, fog and edge computing for transparent, trusted agri-food; digital provenance and for farming and grower collectives.

Origin Chain Networks is leading the Crowdfield Companion project, an NGI TRUBLO project supporting open innovation in emerging technologies across multi-disciplinary domains, empowering participatory field research on the part of experts (agronomists, scientists, tech innovators eg. in drones, robotics, sensor, Ai and DLT) who experiment with new approaches to regerative and climate-smart farming.

CFC Web3 mobile resources are published under Mozilla Public Licence and available here on Github. This video demonstrates how users can download the APK and connect to CFC Network through their Metamask wallet.

Onboarding video – CFC App

The CFC App offers users (farmers and growers) the ability to field-mint agri-NFTs, to capture and encapsulate significant events in the lifecycle of their commercial farming practice. For the purposes of the CFC project these significant events were focused on climate-facing actions that offered proof of engagement with regenerative farming practice.

NGI TRUBLO project | Crowdfield Companion

Project Description

In the face of catastrophic climate changes and the European Union’s stated ambition in The EU Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, any solutions we build must accelerate through collaboration and dissemination of the potential for climate neutrality.

Open innovation and digital transformation in the landscape, agriculture, forestry and marine sectors can accelerate meaningful, measurable and holistic climate-positive actions. The future of food, the livelihood of food producers and the effective climate neutrality of food production is predicated on empowering the value chain with information and connectedness. The extra challenge is to provide trust and reputation models in the context of digitally-enabled business and cooperative multi-party systems.

In rural settings, this added layer is powered by mobile-edge and 5G. By coordinating together, landowners, food producers, and climate activists may, in time be able to accurately and verifiably self-report impact, on location-based resources, in close to real-time and to create with them a reputation score for themselves, their digitised data, their land, produce and processes.

The digital twin problems of data integrity, proof-of-location, and anomaly detection combine to enable the self-reporting of data by reputation-graded human actors within the agri-food value chain.

The CFC Project is part of NGI | TRUBLO supported by Horizon Europe.

Urban Hedgerow – Sustainable City

The Urban Hedgerow project is a Sustainable Cities initiative in Dublin City. It grew from an activist resident community within the locale keen to see a greener urban environment, and who sought to cooperate with owners and managers of publicly held land or property constituting or abutting the realm and to assert community priorities over those of road users. The initiative has succeeded in creating a 75m Urban Hedgerow on top of a single-story carpark, providing a supportive ecosystem for wildlife, pollinators and a more pleasant, healthy environment for human users.

In May 2022, the group embarked on a Web3-inspired intiative using NFTs to create ‘proofs’ of environmental actions taken during the growing season in 2022. The proofs are published as reputation tokens, early examples of what later became known as non-transferable ‘Soulbound’ tokens) on OpenSea.

The Urban Hedgerow project contributed to the CFC /TRUBLO research in 2023 trialing the use of the CFC App to disseminate knowledge and motivate other communities to take similar biodiversity-promoting actions.

The Urban Hedgerow project has the support of local groups including:

Phibsboro Biodiversity Group – Villa Bank Garden
Phibsboro Tidy Towns
Shandon Sustainability Group
Connecting Cabra
Cabra Youth Community Garden
The Bohemian Way
Phibsboro Men’s Shed

VIN-Q – Regenerative Agriculture

The VIN-Q project is a DeSci regenerative viticulture initiative in Catalonia, Spain. The VIN-Q community were key contributors to the CFC Project in 2022 and 2023.

In the climate-smart ecosystem a number of common archetypes emerged including: activist, champion, advocate, early-adopter, learner, expert, leader, participant and member.

These avatars below were created by project participants to visualise their presence and engagement.