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Carbon Credit Retirement Tracker

Prove a carbon credit was retired once and only once.

Intermediate16h2–3 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Carbon Credit Retirement Tracker for companies and climate buyers in ~16h with 2–3 people. Stack: Solidity + OpenZeppelin + Next.js.

Why it wins: Climate and web3 overlap with integrity focus.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Double counting undermines trust in carbon credits.
02 · Solution
Tokenise credits with serials, burn on retirement with a public certificate and flag any serial claimed twice.
03 · Build
  1. 1Write token contract
  2. 2Implement retire
  3. 3Generate certificate
  4. 4Check duplicates
04 · Demo
Retire a credit and show a duplicate claim rejected.

MVP checklist

  • Serial tokens
  • Retirement burn
  • Certificates
  • Duplicate detection

Tech stack

TechRole
SoliditySmart contracts
OpenZeppelinAudited contract library
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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