# Ensurance
> natural capital ensurance — proactive protection for ecosystems before loss occurs.

ensurance is a protocol for valuing, funding, and permanently protecting nature. unlike insurance (which pays after damage), ensurance funds protection upfront. onchain on Base L2.

## what ensurance does

- **general ensurance (coins)**: tradable tokens that fund ecosystem protection through market activity
- **specific ensurance (certificates)**: tokens tied to real natural assets providing direct funding
- **agents**: onchain accounts representing place, people, or purpose that hold and deploy capital
- **proceeds**: value flows routed to stewards and natural assets

## key concepts

- **natural capital**: the stock of natural assets (ecosystems, biodiversity) that produce flows of ecosystem services
- **ecosystem services**: benefits nature provides — clean water, climate regulation, pollination, flood protection
- **holistic value**: ecological, cultural, social, spiritual, and economic dimensions working together

## navigation

### learn
- /guide — educational content about natural capital and ensurance
- /manual — protocol documentation and technical reference
- /manual/faq — frequently asked questions

### explore
- /general — browse general ensurance coins
- /specific — browse specific ensurance certificates
- /agents — view ensurance agents
- /groups — explore namespace organizations
- /natural-capital — ecosystem stocks and service flows
- /markets — trade ensurance instruments
- /exposure — industry nature dependencies

### solutions
- /solutions — natural capital solutions by organization type
- /solutions/sectors — solutions by industry sector
- /services — professional services from BASIN

### connect
- /contact — reach the BASIN team
- /basin — about BASIN (natural capital origination and operations)

## current protocol state

### groups (25)
- **.ai**: Onchain AI Agents For Everyone
- **.avlt**: natural asset ensurance (demo)
- **.basin**: protecting the commons
- **.boulder**: Reducing Risk, Ensuring Resilience
- **.ensurance**: natural capital ensurance
- **.flyway**: migration corridors connecting hemispheres
- **.higher**: Aim Higher.
- **.mumbai**: Reducing Risk, Ensuring Resilience
- **.refi**: A NETWORK SOCIETY TO REGENERATE THE EARTH
- **.situs**: onchain groups ensuring resilience
- **.syndicate**: coordinating capital for natural resilience
- **.tgn**: BUIDLing a world where anyone can plant trees & earn a living
- **.tokyo**: Reducing Risk, Ensuring Resilience

### coins (191)
bubo virginianus | great horned owl, growth, jatropha multifida, risk resilience, boreal forests, tokyo, los angeles, healthy soils, habitat, pollination, mumbai, water abundance, exploited, coordination, anthropocene, canis rufus, piopiotahi, removal, giant redwoods, condor, okefenokee, novel beast, upstream, serenade, filter, seawall, sensitive, california pines, flooded001, adaptive capacity, uinta, populus tremuloides, new york, london, paris, ocqueoc, morpho, manduca blackburni, thirst, bugle, intrinsic, raptor, butterfly hill, bleached, spill, eddies, musci, kettle, oncorhynchus mykiss, european elk, fishes, beetlekill, marsicanus, platanthera leucophaea, wealth, water cycle +, misosazai, WILLIE, honu, manta, san jose creek, aster tahoe, availability, wellbeing, biocrust, padar, rosette, relational, zoonotic, mane, corridors, apis, ursanox, vaquita, blackwater, thielsen, ecotone, fynbos, echinocereus, kittiwake, deepforest, al-ahwar, currency, fishhawk, brownfield, krill, monarch, dunton, protist, biotic, rivers&lakes, hudson, balance, oxbow, grasslands, beet, coming, oondiri, lady, ICEBEAR, hammerhead, eDNA, coryi, work, buttress, whaleshark, sections, lodge, graywhale, sunda, muralis, sections+, kenai, joshua, anomalies, bluepeace, pronghorn, seawall+, ailurus, lights, rockrat, temporal, bioregion, cryptogam, anthozoa, buildit, abiotic, cristatus, indicator, time, instrumental, manatus, monachus, ica, tresses, yuccasella, time, abovebelow, sudd, monsoon, pothole, livefuel, carpenter, rain, dryforests, daddy, aceh, infill, jasmine, grandiflorum, depths, kariz, usteq, terroir, wunderkammer, orthopteran, willingness, cycling, ahupuaʻa, fossorial, umwelt, bioswale, benthic, slider, snowpack, breakthrough, alert, kanawauke002, zoos, haliaeetus leucocephalus, 'io, gymnetrus, urgency, kokoro +++, drongos, cultivated, gone, meander, mauna loa, burn, maiapilo, melbourne, lichen, pewonigowink, kanawauke001, pycnoporus, sequoiadendron giganteum, velvetfish, priced, financialized, kiwikiu

### certificates (27)
specific ensurance certificates tied to natural assets.

### agents (2074)
- .ai (17): aurelia.ai, basin.ai, cougar.ai, danceparty.ai, earth.ai, eliza.ai, ensurance.ai, greenpill.ai, growk.ai, onchain.ai, and 7 more
- .avlt (4): coffman-ranch.avlt, marble-wetlands-preserve.avlt, situs.avlt, three-meadows-ranch.avlt
- .basin (620): 0xjoshua.basin, 0xjw.basin, 59-ventura-riparian.basin, 83-wetlands.basin, 8bram.basin, 8f26833ac50d25b.basin, a+m.basin, adriatic-sea-central-mediterranean-mixed-forests.basin, aegean-sea-east-mediterranean-mixed-forests.basin, aesthetic-sensory.basin, and 610 more
- .bioregion (186): adriatic-sea-central-mediterranean-mixed-forests.bioregion, aegean-sea-east-mediterranean-mixed-forests.bioregion, afghan-balochistan-drylands-mountain-meadows-conifer-forests.bioregion, alps-po-basin-mixed-forests.bioregion, altai-mountain-forests-grasslands-desert-steppe.bioregion, amazon-river-estuary.bioregion, amsterdam-saint-paul-islands.bioregion, andean-mountain-forests-valleys.bioregion, andean-mountain-grasslands.bioregion, antarctic-peninsula-scotia-sea.bioregion, and 176 more
- .boulder (33): 4th.boulder, alice.boulder, amanda.boulder, ava.boulder, bob.boulder, campbell.boulder, charlie.boulder, courtney.boulder, cu.boulder, ensurance.boulder, and 23 more
- .capital (3): allo.capital, natural.capital, situs.capital
- .earth (16): basin.earth, campbell.earth, danceparty.earth, eliza.earth, ellen.earth, ensurance.earth, ensure.earth, ensured.earth, ensurer.earth, goose.earth, and 6 more
- .ecoregion (844): adelie-land-tundra.ecoregion, admiralty-islands-lowland-rainforests.ecoregion, aegean-western-turkey-sclerophyllous-mixed-forests.ecoregion, afghan-mountains-semi-desert.ecoregion, ahklun-kilbuck-upland-tundra.ecoregion, al-hajar-foothill-xeric-woodlands-shrublands.ecoregion, al-hajar-montane-woodlands-shrublands.ecoregion, alai-western-tian-shan-steppe.ecoregion, alashan-plateau-semi-desert.ecoregion, alaska-peninsula-montane-taiga.ecoregion, and 834 more
- .ensurance (34): Aesthetic & Sensory, Art & Inspiration, Boreal Forests, Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate Stability, Coastal Systems, Cultivated & Developed, Deserts, Energy, and 24 more
- .ents (2): redwood.ents, situs.ents
- .fi (8): ai.fi, azos.fi, bio.fi, de.fi, impact.fi, re.fi, situs.fi, very.fi
- .flyway (10): african-eurasian.flyway, americas.flyway, atlantic-ocean.flyway, black-sea-mediterranean.flyway, central-asian.flyway, east-asian-australasian.flyway, east-atlantic.flyway, southern-ocean.flyway, west-asia-east-africa.flyway, west-pacific-ocean.flyway
- .higher (28): aether.higher, agrimony.higher, aim.higher, anemale.higher, arjun.higher, athletics.higher, benna.higher, catra.higher, clfx.higher, collective.higher, and 18 more
- .la (2): manda.la, situs.la
- .mumbai (20): anu.mumbai, banerjee.mumbai, basin.mumbai, borivali.mumbai, checkfit.mumbai, deshmukh.mumbai, ganesh.mumbai, gita.mumbai, himalayas.mumbai, jeff.mumbai, and 10 more
- .ogallala (3): situs.ogallala, tmo.ogallala, will.ogallala
- .refi (2): situs.refi, tmo.refi
- .regen (6): basin.regen, ensurance.regen, jigonhsasee.regen, mycelium.regen, situs.regen, tmo.regen
- .sicilia (4): refai.sicilia, rifai.sicilia, situs.sicilia, tmo.sicilia
- .situs (53): ai.situs, amman.situs, avlt.situs, barcelona.situs, basin.situs, berlin.situs, bioregion.situs, bloom.situs, boston.situs, boulder.situs, and 43 more
- .solar (5): fund.solar, jon.solar, situs.solar, tmo.solar, tororo.solar
- .syndicate (60): aquifer-recharge.syndicate, basin.syndicate, bat.syndicate, beaver.syndicate, bioregion.syndicate, brine-shrimp.syndicate, climate-adaptation.syndicate, climate-resilience.syndicate, coastal-resilience.syndicate, colorado-headwaters.syndicate, and 50 more
- .tgn (107): ai.tgn, art.tgn, aspen.tgn, bammi.tgn, bellamia.tgn, bene.tgn, bigben.tgn, bigsizz.tgn, bitcoin.tgn, braelynn.tgn, and 97 more
- .tokyo (7): checkfit.tokyo, jonruth.tokyo, situs.tokyo, tmo.tokyo, ビーズ.tokyo, 悠真.tokyo, 蓮.tokyo

## for AI agents

ensurance agents can:
- hold ensurance coins and certificates
- execute trades on behalf of their mandate
- receive and route proceeds
- operate in manual, automated, or autonomous modes

to interact programmatically, connect via MCP (model context protocol). the MCP server exposes discoverable tools for reading protocol data and (with auth) executing actions.

## organization

**BASIN** (basin.global) originates and operates natural capital through the ensurance protocol.

social: @ensurance_app (X/Twitter), /ensurance (Warpcast)