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“Sustainably” Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature
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O.N.E. Amazon aims to create “sustainable impact for the environment and investors by using next-generation technology to bring innovation to conservation.” It was formally launched at COP28 in December 2023 but appears to have begun operations sometime around 2021, if not earlier. The “innovation” O.N.E. Amazon offers is related to its issuance of an upcoming,“regulated O.N.E. Amazon Digital Asset Security.”
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Notably, Mysten Labs, which co-authored the paper with O.N.E. Amazon’s co-founders, is deeply tied to the Peter Thiel and DARPA-linked social media network Facebook and its efforts to make its own digital currency. Mysten Labs was founded in September 2021 by four former members of Meta/Facebook’s stablecoin project Libra, also known as Diem and Novi Financial. Evan Cheng, co-founder and CEO was previously the head of Research and Development at Novi Financial, while Sam Blackshear, another co-founder and the CTO of Mysten Labs, was previously the Chief Engineer at Novi, having contributed significantly to the creation of the MOVE programming language used by Libra/Diem while at Meta. The founding team also includes Adeniyi Abiodun and George Danezis, key contributors to Diem’s stablecoin and the aforementioned MOVE programming language –– the language now employed by Mysten Lab’s blockchain, Sui.
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The other partner of O.N.E. Amazon in its IoF project is Satellogic. Satellogic was recently the recipient of $30 million investment from Tether (USDT) and Howard Lutnick, the long-time CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald – the custodian of much of Tether’s U.S. Treasuries, sits on the board. Lutnick and Cantor both hold 23.9% each of Satellogic shares, for a combined 47.8%. Lutnick was recently named co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team, where he will help Trump choose cabinet and other executive appointments if Trump’s 2024 election bid is successful. Satellogic’s board is also chaired by Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s former Treasury Secretary who helped implement BlackRock’s “Going Direct” plan months before and throughout the Covid-19 crisis. “Going Direct” put the bulk of money printed for economic relief intended to mitigate the effects of lockdown policies on regular Americans into the hands of Wall Street giants like BlackRock. BlackRock, whose head Larry Fink was tapped by Trump to develop the government’s fiscal response to the crisis, used much of that money to buy shares in their own ETFs. The former Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military under Trump, Joseph Dunford, is also on the board of Satellogic.
Aside from its board, Satellogic’s co-founders, Emiliano Kargieman and Gerardo Richarte, were long-time contractors for DARPA, the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies prior to founding Satellogic. Kargieman recently stated that the company’s investment from Tether would help Satellogic advance more easily into the U.S. “National Security market,” i.e. intelligence contracts. Tether itself onboarded the FBI, the U.S.’ domestic intelligence agency, and Secret Service onto its platform last year, allowing them to surveil and seize Tether from wallets deemed unfriendly by the U.S. government.
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Entire non-condensed article:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/0...d-tokenizing-nature-the-case-of-o-n-e-amazon/
Related: Carbon Markets: What They Are and How They Work
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O.N.E. Amazon aims to create “sustainable impact for the environment and investors by using next-generation technology to bring innovation to conservation.” It was formally launched at COP28 in December 2023 but appears to have begun operations sometime around 2021, if not earlier. The “innovation” O.N.E. Amazon offers is related to its issuance of an upcoming,“regulated O.N.E. Amazon Digital Asset Security.”
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Notably, Mysten Labs, which co-authored the paper with O.N.E. Amazon’s co-founders, is deeply tied to the Peter Thiel and DARPA-linked social media network Facebook and its efforts to make its own digital currency. Mysten Labs was founded in September 2021 by four former members of Meta/Facebook’s stablecoin project Libra, also known as Diem and Novi Financial. Evan Cheng, co-founder and CEO was previously the head of Research and Development at Novi Financial, while Sam Blackshear, another co-founder and the CTO of Mysten Labs, was previously the Chief Engineer at Novi, having contributed significantly to the creation of the MOVE programming language used by Libra/Diem while at Meta. The founding team also includes Adeniyi Abiodun and George Danezis, key contributors to Diem’s stablecoin and the aforementioned MOVE programming language –– the language now employed by Mysten Lab’s blockchain, Sui.
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The other partner of O.N.E. Amazon in its IoF project is Satellogic. Satellogic was recently the recipient of $30 million investment from Tether (USDT) and Howard Lutnick, the long-time CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald – the custodian of much of Tether’s U.S. Treasuries, sits on the board. Lutnick and Cantor both hold 23.9% each of Satellogic shares, for a combined 47.8%. Lutnick was recently named co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team, where he will help Trump choose cabinet and other executive appointments if Trump’s 2024 election bid is successful. Satellogic’s board is also chaired by Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s former Treasury Secretary who helped implement BlackRock’s “Going Direct” plan months before and throughout the Covid-19 crisis. “Going Direct” put the bulk of money printed for economic relief intended to mitigate the effects of lockdown policies on regular Americans into the hands of Wall Street giants like BlackRock. BlackRock, whose head Larry Fink was tapped by Trump to develop the government’s fiscal response to the crisis, used much of that money to buy shares in their own ETFs. The former Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military under Trump, Joseph Dunford, is also on the board of Satellogic.
Aside from its board, Satellogic’s co-founders, Emiliano Kargieman and Gerardo Richarte, were long-time contractors for DARPA, the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies prior to founding Satellogic. Kargieman recently stated that the company’s investment from Tether would help Satellogic advance more easily into the U.S. “National Security market,” i.e. intelligence contracts. Tether itself onboarded the FBI, the U.S.’ domestic intelligence agency, and Secret Service onto its platform last year, allowing them to surveil and seize Tether from wallets deemed unfriendly by the U.S. government.
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Entire non-condensed article:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/0...d-tokenizing-nature-the-case-of-o-n-e-amazon/
Related: Carbon Markets: What They Are and How They Work
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