Hedera-based alliance targets 27 million hectares of Latin American carbon land

• Oro Ecológico Nexus holds 40-year mandates with Indigenous communities and more than 200,000 landowners across 27+ million hectares.
• EcoGuard Global, set up by The Hashgraph Group, supplies Hedera-based digital measurement, reporting and verification (dMRV).
• Envex Technologies lists, trades and retires the verified credits, which are being structured for Article 6 and CORSIA eligibility from day one.

• 27M+ hectares under long-term mandates across four Latin American countries
• 1M hectares in the jointly agreed Phase 1 pilot deployment
• 5–10M tCO2e of nature-based credits a year estimated from Phase 1

Oro Ecológico Nexus (OEN), EcoGuard Global and Envex Technologies announced the strategic alliance on Thursday (September 24, 2026) at the New York Climate Summit 2026.

The deal ties together three layers that usually sit with different parties: the land where conservation happens, the data proving it happened, and the market where the resulting credits are sold. All three will run on Hedera, the distributed ledger that EcoGuard’s platform is built on.

Oro Ecológico Nexus brings 40-year mandates across 27 million hectares

OEN describes itself as the “Origin Layer.” The company says it has secured carbon credit and natural capital rights through signed 40-year mandates with Indigenous communities and more than 200,000 landowners, built on Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes and community benefit-sharing.

This alliance allows us to connect that foundation to institutional-grade digital infrastructure, trusted verification and global markets, while creating future pathways for biodiversity, climate finance and broader natural capital opportunities, with communities remaining at the center of the value creation process.

Antonio F. Kaik, founder and CEO, Oro Ecológico Nexus

EcoGuard’s Hedera dMRV records the chain of evidence

EcoGuard Global is a Swiss climate-tech company established by The Hashgraph Group (THG). Its platform combines Hedera-anchored records with digital measurement, reporting and verification, traceability and carbon asset issuance, and it has more than 60 carbon methodologies digitized so far.

The goal is a verifiable record running from conservation activity on the ground through to the issued credit, which is the step where voluntary carbon markets have historically lost buyers’ trust.

High-integrity environmental assets are only as strong as the chain of evidence behind them.

Yashodhan Ramteke, CEO, EcoGuard Global

The Latin America deal is EcoGuard’s first in the region. It comes shortly after the company deployed a carbon market platform for the Confederation of Coconut Farmers Organizations of the Philippines (CONFED), connecting more than 3 million coconut farmers to international carbon buyers.

Envex targets Article 6 and CORSIA buyers

Envex Technologies, headquartered in Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), handles the market layer. The company says it integrates with major registries including Verra, Gold Standard, EcoRegistry and Isometric, and pools liquidity from multiple exchanges into a shared order book. Once credits are verified, Envex lists them, keeps them traceable and retires them, which it says shortens the time from issuance to revenue.

Pairing that with EcoGuard’s dMRV layer means the assets are structured to be eligible for Article 6, CORSIA, and compliance and voluntary markets from day one.

Vishwajit Dahanukar, founder and director, Envex Technologies

Phase 1 covers one million hectares, with 30–50 million tonnes the full-scale target

The partners have agreed an initial deployment of about one million hectares in jointly selected pilot areas. They estimate Phase 1 could generate 5 to 10 million tCO2e of nature-based credits a year, sold under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the International Civil Aviation Organization’s CORSIA program.

The infrastructure is designed to expand in modules across the wider 27-million-hectare portfolio. At full scale, the partners put potential output at 30 to 50 million tCO2e a year, and say the same origination, verification and trading structure can later extend to biodiversity credits and other ecosystem services.

The CCS read. Carbon markets have never been short on land or buyers; they have been short on proof. Anchoring mandates, field data and retirement records to a public ledger is one of the more concrete enterprise use cases Hedera and $HBAR have, and The Hashgraph Group keeps stacking regulated, real-economy deployments on top of it. The numbers here are estimates, though, and the real test is how much of the Phase 1 volume actually gets verified, issued and bought by compliance buyers.

Watch for the location of the Phase 1 pilot sites, the first credit issuance through EcoGuard’s platform, and which registries and buyers take the first volumes through Envex.