On December 9, 2024, GIGATONS announced the selection of Alephium as the blockchain platform to deploy its revolutionary GIGA protocol. This milestone positions Alephium as the foundation for one of the most ambitious net-zero emissions technology programs in history. By leveraging Alephium's advanced technology, GIGATONS aims to tokenize real-world assets, verify carbon credits, and provide unparalleled transparency in global decarbonization efforts, ultimately mobilizing $100 billion in green investments within the next decade.
One of the first projects supported by the GIGATONS platform is a transformative solar-powered Bitcoin mining initiative developed in collaboration with HEARST and Alephium. This groundbreaking effort combines renewable energy infrastructure with Alephium's blockchain technology, redefining the sustainability and transparency of crypto mining. The project sets new standards by generating verifiable on-chain carbon credits, reducing over 4,500 tons of carbon dioxide per system annually, and linking financial returns with sustainability through tokenized carbon credits. Future phases aim to extend this model to other energy-intensive industries such as AI data centers, creating scalable, off-grid, and climate-friendly solutions.
This pioneering initiative combines blockchain technology with green energy, creating a tokenized supply chain that redefines sustainability, transparency, and innovation. Utilizing solar systems and Alephium's blockchain, it offers a pathway for scalable and climate-positive cryptocurrency mining and other energy-intensive applications.
Climate-positive mining: each solar system is expected to reduce over 4,500 tons of carbon dioxide per year, generating certified carbon credits.
Increased profitability: miners earn revenue from both Bitcoin and tokenized carbon credits, ensuring financial returns align with sustainability.
Global scalability: off-grid solar systems can be deployed in sunny regions, unlocking decentralized energy solutions.
Verified transparency: a tokenized ecosystem ensures traceability from capital to energy to assets and carbon credits, providing verifiable accountability.
By integrating renewable energy with blockchain, the project fosters investment and innovation, addressing urgent climate challenges and laying the groundwork for a sustainable transition.
Blockchain-supported net-zero finance
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C requires greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 and drop 43% by 2030, according to climate experts. Achieving this goal is crucial to avoid irreversible environmental damage.
To meet these goals, COP29 estimates that $1 trillion in climate financing will be needed annually by 2030, with half of the funding expected to come from private sector investments.
This project demonstrates how blockchain can merge economic growth with climate action, driving investment and establishing the credibility of climate finance markets through transparent, scalable solutions.
By 2025, the initiative aims to rapidly drive billions of dollars in investment, emphasizing the potential of blockchain in addressing the climate crisis and accelerating the transition to a sustainable future.
Paving the way for sustainable investment
The proof of concept leverages the synergies between:
GIGATECH (the technology arm of the GIGATONS group) will deploy the GIGA protocol for the transparent verification of funding, real-world assets (RWA), and tokenized carbon credits, using a sophisticated DePIN digital twin metaverse for end-to-end verification on the Alephium blockchain.
GIGASERVE (the physical infrastructure branch of the GIGATONS group) will provide an off-grid hybrid solar power plant to supply renewable energy to drive HEARST's mining technology.
HEARST will combine its advanced mining technology platform with Bitmain's empire mining machines and ASIC chips to ensure large-scale green cryptocurrency mining opportunities.
Alephium will serve as the foundational blockchain for the project, providing scalable, secure, and decentralized distributed ledger technology, native tokenized DePIN real-world assets, and high-quality carbon credits.
These pioneers have proven that the transition to net-zero is not just a goal—it is a profitable and achievable reality.
Quote from visionaries
Heston Harper, co-CEO of GIGATONS:
"This project releases the essence needed for the transition era—scalable solutions, verifiable impacts, and green infrastructure. Together with HEARST and Alephium, we demonstrate how climate technology can simultaneously provide impact and opportunity at scale."
Loic Ricci, COO of HEARST:
"Our mission has always been to achieve green cryptocurrency mining at scale. The partnership with GIGATONS and Alephium takes us further—building a sustainable foundation for the blockchain and AI technologies that will shape our future. When people understand the achievements we have made here, it is hard to imagine anyone mining in any other way—this will be the true new gold standard, both in terms of profit and sustainability."
Cheng Wang, founder of Alephium:
"We are collaborating to create the scalable, transparent solutions essential for the net-zero era. Blockchain is the key foundation for a smart, interconnected, clean energy future. This project showcases how scalability, security, and sustainability can coexist harmoniously, paving the way for a decentralized and responsible ecosystem that withstands the test of time."
About GIGATONS
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi ADGM, GIGATONS is a next-generation technology and funding platform company that accelerates the reduction of billions of tons of carbon dioxide by scaling net-zero transportation and critical power infrastructure. By mobilizing and marking capital, as well as integrating blockchain, AI, and cutting-edge sustainable energy technologies, GIGATONS' GIGA protocol unlocks scalable, verifiable, and impactful transition opportunities globally. Built on the success of GRIDSERVE, the UK's leading solar-to-wheel electric vehicle charging business founded by GIGATONS' founders, the company aims to replicate and scale these achievements worldwide.
About HEARST
HEARST focuses on green cryptocurrency mining and AI computing, providing scalable solutions for the blockchain and AI industries with an emphasis on sustainability. The company's goal is to innovate in the new computing industry, elevating practices and the industry with the support of partners to the next level.
About Alephium
Alephium is a next-generation proof-of-work blockchain that combines scalability, energy efficiency, and smart contract capabilities to drive decentralized solutions for a better future.
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