Regenerative finance (ReFi) is a movement that uses blockchain-based financial primitives to fund and incentivise ecological and social regeneration, such as carbon removal, biodiversity, and public goods. It tokenises natural assets and routes capital through mechanisms like retroactive funding and on-chain carbon markets. ReFi reframes DeFi tooling toward restoring rather than merely extracting value.
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- ReFi projects tokenise carbon credits, reward verifiable environmental outcomes, and use quadratic and retroactive funding to support public goods. By aligning financial incentives with regeneration, the field aims to make positive externalities economically self-sustaining, though measurement and additionality remain challenges.