Innovation in Environment - Friendly products and services
Bitcoin uses a lot of energy but so does gold mining (also pollutes a lot) and so does the traditional financial system.
Bitcoin mining increasingly use “trapped” energy
Bitcoin mining drives renewable energy. Bitcoin mining uses 50-60% renewable energy whereas other industries are around 10-20% (US as a whole is 12%)
Migrating from PoW to PoS. PoS is 34% now, 57% with ETH 2.0
Blockchain and PoS-based financial systems are much less energy demanding than traditional financial systems
Tokenization will use primarily PoS protocols and be much much less energy demanding than the traditional securities processing ecosystem Support and functionality for green certified buildings
Social
Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Poverty and comunity Impact
Supply Chain Management
Customer Privacy
Local Communities
Freedom of Association
Human Rights
Bitcoin improves the lives of 3.5b people with financial inclusion, wallets for non-banked people, giving them control over their own savings
8% of all US-Mexico remittance now goes over bitcoin, saving migrants a month’s wages every year in remittance fees
Protection against inflation through non-inflationary assets (54% in February in Turkey)
Protection against capital controls in dictatorships (see Russia)
Fractionalization & democratization
Equal opportunity access wealth increase for every member of society
Promote financial literacy
Aid in reducing poverty levels and closing the wealth gap
Expanding access to financial products
Less than 2% of global real estate is accessible to retail investors. More than 50% of retail investors want access
Skipping a generation of financial ecosystem technology
Governance
Code of Conduct and Business Principles
Accountability
Transparency and Disclosure
Board Diversity and Structure
Bribery and Corruption
Stakeholder and Engagement
Shareholder Rights
Accountability – blockchain transactions are immutable and can be tracked back to the source, making it much easier for law enforcement, auditors, etc.
Transparency and disclosure – companies running their business via smart contracts can be tracked and audited from the outside.
Corruption: corruption will be much decreased through globally accessible verifiable information
Transparency and disclosure: smart contracts are open source and all transactions that ever happened is visible to the public. As an example, Blockchain-based voting gives votes certainty that their votes are counted
Tokenization inherits the above governance benefits from the blockchain
DIGISHARES
ESG STRATEGY
ENVIRONMENTAL
Promote use of PoS protocols
Functionality for green certified buildings
SOCIAL
Promote democratization in all projects
Provide learning tools for financial literacy
GOVERNANCE
Functionality for increased transparency
Advice policy makers and influence regulation
Sustainable Development
As an organization, DigShares has the opporunity to impact the following areas: