What if you could fund conservation for the next 512 years—and it only cost what you are already spending?
The infrastructure exists. Here is how it works.
the 40-word answer
Ensurance proceeds are onchain vesting streams that release funding across preset intervals—from 3 months to 512 years—creating perpetual, automated stewardship without ongoing fundraising, grant applications, or institutional dependency.
The mechanism is live on Base. The streams are flowing now.
why time-based funding matters
Conservation finance has a temporal architecture problem. Grant cycles run 3–5 years. Ecosystems operate on multi-decadal and intergenerational timescales. This mismatch guarantees that funding ends before outcomes compound.
Traditional solutions—endowments, trust funds—attempt to solve this by locking capital. But locked capital is not the same as perpetual flows. Endowments deplete. Trust funds face market risk. Both require ongoing institutional stewardship.
Vesting streams solve the temporal problem directly. They release value automatically across time, matching ecological timescales without requiring human intervention at each step.
step 1: understand the streams
Ensurance operates 12 vesting streams, each releasing proceeds across a specific duration:
| Stream | Duration | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| 3 months | Quarterly | Urgent interventions, seasonal stewardship |
| 6 months | Semi-annual | Short-term restoration, monitoring cycles |
| 1 year | Annual | Standard operating support |
| 2 years | Biennial | Project-scale initiatives |
| 4 years | Quadrennial | Medium-term restoration |
| 8 years | Octennial | Landscape-scale recovery |
| 16 years | Generational | Forest maturation, species recovery |
| 32 years | Multi-generational | Watershed restoration |
| 64 years | Institutional | Infrastructure-scale protection |
| 128 years | Century-scale | Ecosystem succession |
| 256 years | Multi-century | Deep time stewardship |
| 512 years | Half-millennium | Permanent protection |
Each stream is an immutable smart contract. Once value enters, it vests linearly until the duration completes. The recipient can claim vested funds at any time, but the total allocation releases gradually.
Key insight: A 512-year stream means that value deposited today will still be releasing to stewards in the year 2537.
step 2: see how value enters
Proceeds flow into the system from eight sources:
| Source | What Generates It |
|---|---|
| ENSURANCE MARKETS | Trading activity, market infrastructure |
| GENERAL ENSURANCE | Coin creation and swaps |
| SPECIFIC ENSURANCE | Certificate creation and swaps |
| ENSURANCE AGENTS | Agent creation and operations |
| ENSURANCE DUNA | Group and account creation |
| BASIN FIELD SERVICES | Natural asset valuation, land works |
| BASIN STUDIO | Media and story |
| ENSURANCE PROCEEDS | Cyclical flows from protocol proceeds |
This is not a single funding source. It is a diversified proceeds infrastructure that generates continuous inflows from multiple protocol activities.
The last source—ENSURANCE PROCEEDS—creates a cyclical loop. Some proceeds flow back into the system, compounding value over time.
step 3: follow the flow
Proceeds move through a transparent routing system:
SOURCES
↓
ORIGIN | ENSURANCE PROCEEDS (headwaters)
↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
├─→ NATURAL CAPITAL POOLS │
│ ├─→ STOCKS (15 ecosystem types) │
│ └─→ FLOWS (19 ecosystem services) │
│ │
├─→ STREAMS (12 vesting durations) │
│ └─→ 3mo → 6mo → 1yr → ... → 512yr │
│ │
├─→ GROUPS (ensurance collectives) │
│ │
├─→ SWAPPER (currency diversification) │
│ └─→ ENSURE, USDC, ETH, cbBTC, EURC │
│ │
└─→ CORE (operations) │
├─→ HOLDCO (perpetual steward) │
├─→ OPCO (active caretaker) │
├─→ PROPCO (title holder) │
└─→ DISTRIBUTIONS (member benefits) │
Every split, every stream, every distribution is a smart contract. All flows are traceable onchain. There is no opacity.
step 4: match timescales to ecosystems
Different conservation needs require different temporal architectures:
| Need | Recommended Streams |
|---|---|
| Emergency response | 3 months, 6 months |
| Annual stewardship operations | 1 year, 2 years |
| Restoration projects | 4 years, 8 years |
| Species recovery programs | 16 years, 32 years |
| Watershed and landscape recovery | 32 years, 64 years |
| Forest succession and carbon sequestration | 64 years, 128 years |
| Intergenerational protection | 256 years, 512 years |
The 512-year stream is not symbolic. It is functional infrastructure for permanent protection—funding that continues flowing long after any individual, organization, or government persists.
how this differs from traditional models
| Dimension | Conservation Trust Fund | Ensurance Proceeds |
|---|---|---|
| Capital deployment | Locked endowment | Active flows |
| Funding source | One-time donation | Continuous protocol activity |
| Duration | Foundation lifespan | 3 months to 512 years |
| Governance | Board decisions | Smart contract automation |
| Transparency | Annual reports | Real-time onchain |
| Currency risk | USD/local exposure | Multi-currency swapper |
| Institutional dependency | High | None |
| Post-funding continuity | Grant ends → outcomes decay | Streams continue → stewardship persists |
The fundamental difference: CTFs try to create permanence by locking capital. Ensurance creates permanence by encoding temporal release into immutable infrastructure.
frequently asked questions
how is this different from an endowment?
Endowments lock capital and distribute income. They depend on investment returns, face market risk, and require ongoing institutional governance. Ensurance streams release principal directly across preset durations, with no investment decisions, no market exposure on the vesting mechanism itself, and no institutional intermediary.
what happens if the protocol stops?
The vesting contracts are immutable and permissionless. Once value is deposited, it vests according to the contract terms regardless of what happens to any organization. The streams will continue releasing even if every company involved disappears.
who decides where proceeds go?
The routing is encoded in smart contracts. ORIGIN splits proceeds to NATURAL CAPITAL POOLS, STREAMS, GROUPS, SWAPPER, and CORE according to preset allocations. Within each branch, further splits route value to specific beneficiaries. All of this is transparent and auditable.
can anyone use this infrastructure?
Yes. The proceeds system is permissionless. Anyone can create splits, route value to vesting streams, and designate beneficiaries. The infrastructure is public goods.
is this proven?
The mechanism is live. The streams are currently receiving and releasing proceeds. You can view the entire system at /proceeds.
the bottom line
Conservation finance fails because it is designed for human institutional timescales, not ecological ones.
Ensurance proceeds solve this by encoding temporal release into immutable infrastructure. Twelve vesting streams—from 3 months to 512 years—create perpetual funding flows that match the timescales ecosystems actually require.
This is not theory. This is live infrastructure.
The streams are flowing. The question is whether you will route value through them.