Timeless Bamboo has reportedly secured 10 acres of land for a bamboo-based carbon pilot by working cooperatively with Swiss blockchain-focused Fintech Fedrok AG. This was done by recording project data on-chain.
Baseline surveys were carried out this past month and planting is expected to commence during this quarter, according to an update from the team at Fedrok AG.
The initiative brings together an ongoing restoration effort with a digital infrastructure layer intended to enhance transparency. Women and youth groups in Mukura (in Uganda) are now expected to support mobilization efforts as well as planting activities. Meanwhile, Fedrok’s system will record consultations, surveys, and planting activities on an immutable digital ledger.
Bamboo restoration is said to serve as a tool to repair degraded land as well as support local livelihoods.
Bamboo can offer energy, construction materials, and household items, significantly lowering dependence on scarce forest resources.
For Mukura, the pilot serves as an ecological and a type of social intervention.
The sharp focus on inclusivity highlights a growing development in restoration initiatives, where so-called community ownership is viewed as a condition for durability.
Fedrok’s goal is to provide the technical foundation. The milestones of these initiatives are to be recorded via its blockchain, resulting in an auditable trail of ecological and social activities.
This may consist of consultation documentation, baseline data, planting activities, and mitigation actions that may be needed in the foreseeable future.
The project is presently in the pilot phase.
There is still an MoU to be announced, which may more clearly outline various activities, relevant roles, as well as any budgets, along with completing land-use formalization with various families.
Planting is expected to commence at some point this year.
As covered, Fedrok AG is a Switzerland-based environmental data infrastructure firm offering blockchain tools for governance and verification.
Its platform aims to make ecological data auditable and tamper-proof.
Fedrok is also collaborating with FarmRight on so-called climate-smart agriculture.
James Mulbah, who recently joined Fedrok, has explained that blockchain records can’t be changed or deleted, so they build trust.
For their bamboo carbon project, this means every step—such as land prep, planting, and carbon capture—will be permanently logged making it easy to verify. It will serve as “a safeguard against greenwashing.”
Mulbah further noted that new tools like blockchain tech, sensors, and satellite data make it “easier to track environmental progress in real time.”
They aim to significantly cut down on paperwork, “reduce errors, and help us show exactly what’s happening on the ground—quickly and clearly.”
As explained by Mulbah, Fedrok’s blockchain records “every action—from land preparation through to planting bamboo and issuing a carbon credit—as a secure digital entry.”
He added:
“We use smart contracts to automate things such as revenue-sharing and project milestones. This ensures local groups get their fair share and that all actions are tracked and verified without relying on middlemen.”
He also mentioned:
“We link real-world data—such as tree growth and carbon levels—to digital records that anyone can check. Unlike traditional systems, ours updates in real time is open to inspection, which makes it harder to fake results and easier to build trust.”