Date of Session
October 28, 2025
Summary
This week's update covers significant progress on the SPV investment and market maker deployment across Base, Osmosis, and Cello DEXs. Mark discussed the upcoming CoinStore listing and strategies to improve liquidity. The team explored innovative approaches to ecocredit sales, including leveraging project developer networks and creating internal markets for non-traditional credits. Key discussions also focused on building community engagement through lower-barrier verification methods and incentivizing stakeholder participation in the Regen marketplace.
Key topics
SPV and Exchange Listing Updates
- Mark reported initial investment into the SPV with work ongoing to close the deal ‣
- A market maker has been hired to focus on three DEXs: Base, Osmosis, and Cello ‣
- Working with CoinStore to initiate a listing of Regen coin on Base ‣
- Beginning to deploy capital to help with liquidity ‣
- Attempting to bring large coin holders into the SPV to have more Regen coin for deployment ‣ ‣
- Starting the onboarding process for centralized exchange listing to be ready when timing is right ‣
Quicksilver Liquid Staking Issues
- Lance reported issues with unbonding approximately 250,000 Regen tokens liquid-staked with Quicksilver ‣
- Tokens have been stuck for about three months despite attempts to unbond them ‣
- Will offered to look into the validator sets between the two networks to find potential contacts ‣
- AI analysis suggested the issue might be with offline validators or a network-wide problem ‣ ‣
- Lance advised against using Quicksilver for liquid staking Regen tokens ‣
Echo Credit Sales and Transaction Fees
- Max discussed implementing a 2% transaction fee on Echo Credit sales to be used for purchasing and burning Regen tokens ‣ ‣
- Current Echo Credit sales estimated at around $50K per month ‣
- The proposed 2% transaction fee would generate approximately $1,000 monthly ‣
- Mark confirmed the fee hasn't been implemented yet but considered it reasonable and important for supporting the ecosystem ‣ ‣ ‣
Scaling Echo Credit Sales
- Three main limitations to sales growth identified: ‣
- Third-party marketplace sites like mSurge and Patch getting more visibility ‣
- Limited capital for marketing and customer acquisition ‣ ‣
- Need for project developers to better promote the Web3 marketplace ‣ ‣
- Current approach involves manually listing credits on third-party marketplaces by siloing them in separate wallets ‣ ‣
- API integration with third-party marketplaces would be ideal but requires capital and development resources ‣ ‣
- Project developers could leverage their own networks and stakeholders to promote their credits ‣ ‣
Alternative Market Approaches
- Jim (James McGee) suggested exploring fractional and fungible assets to reach smaller investors ‣ ‣
- Will explained that Regen already has a "basket function" allowing bundling of various tokens ‣
- NCT (Nature Carbon Ton) was mentioned as an existing basket token co-developed with Toucan on Polygon ‣ ‣
- Discussion about including less rigorously verified projects to build community and network effects ‣ ‣
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