Roots Remember
On trees, blockchains, and the oldest network on earth.
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“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us.’”
In some of the world’s oldest languages, plants are not called plants. Their name, translated, means the ones who watch over us.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
01 · From the Pulse of Soil, to the Permanence of the Cloud
Scars from old seasons are etched into leaf veins. Roots keep each other’s secrets.
Scientists have discovered that trees actually “shake hands” underground. Fungal mycelium weaves entire forests into a single network — through which trees exchange nutrients, send warnings, and nurse their young. Researchers call it the Wood Wide Web.
Long before humans invented the internet, forests had been running their own network for four hundred million years.
But much of the green you see today was not always there. In the last century, mountain valleys across northern Thailand were stripped bare for rubber and palm oil — leaving nothing but exposed red earth.
In 1994, the FORRU research group at Chiang Mai University planted the first native species in these lands, and spent thirty years tracking what happened. What they recorded:
- In just five to nine years, seventy-three species returned on their own
- Within fourteen to sixteen years, carbon cycling recovered to the level of old-growth forest
This is not a projection. It is thirty years of documented field evidence. In Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya — across dozens of countries — billions of trees are standing again. Behind every one of them, someone once bent low to the earth.
Starting in 2016, something that had never been done before began: every tree planted was fully documented — photograph, GPS coordinates, species, planting date, and the face of the person who planted it.
Field workers used TreeCorder to capture this data on-site, then wrote it into TreeChain — a blockchain built for trees. Permanent. Immutable. Open for anyone to trace the full history of any tree.
This system was pioneered by EcoMatcher, a Certified B Corporation based in Hong Kong. Today, hundreds of companies including Microsoft, Grab, P&G, HP, Standard Chartered, and Etihad have planted millions of trees through EcoMatcher — across fifteen countries, each tree holding an independent identity on-chain.
For four hundred million years, root systems carried signals of survival through the dark. Now, the blockchain makes that information visible to everyone.
This is the chain you cannot see.
02 · From a Moment of Action, to an Ecological Permanence
Trees now have identities on-chain. But what about the people who act for the earth?
$220B flows into nature restoration globally every year. Behind that number are countless people taking action for the planet. But most of them have never seen where their action went.
Through EcoMatcher, for the first time, a person can see their own tree — where it is, what species, who is caring for it. But when you close that page, the action stays there. It lives inside someone else’s system. Everything you did has nowhere that belongs to you.
Earth LinC changes that.
It is your ecological identity — built on the ERC-6551 protocol. Living. Growing. Yours alone.
ERC-6551 allows an on-chain identity to keep accumulating new content over time. Every action you take generates a Living Certificate, which grows into the same identity. One certificate, ten, thirty — they no longer scatter across the deep corners of different systems. They accumulate under your name, continuously.
This identity exists permanently. Sovereignty belongs to you. Even if the originating organization no longer exists, it lives on-chain — untouchable by anyone.
What you hold is not an asset. It is a relationship. An irrevocable relationship.
Inside Earth LinC lives a spirit: Navi (Nature AI). Starting from the coordinates of your tree, she navigates satellite imagery, species knowledge, and verified data — opening the entire world of earth science to you, personally.
Blockchain makes it permanent and sovereign. AI makes it intelligent and personal. For the first time in human history, ecological action has a place where it can accumulate across time.
03 · The First Forest: Thailand
On April 28, EarthLinC globally launches.
Navi will awaken inside EcoMatcher’s on-chain forests, and walk with you to find your tree.
We begin in Thailand — the mountain forests of Mae Hong Son in the north, and the coastal forests of Krabi in the south.
If you have ever planted a tree through EcoMatcher — whether you planted it yourself, or your company planted it on your behalf — your tree is already on-chain. You can now claim your ecological identity.
04 · Connecting to Earth Has Never Been Simpler
You don’t need to understand the blockchain. You don’t need a digital wallet. You only need to act — and leave the rest to time.
# For individuals
Open yucrown.earth, find the patch of land you want to protect on the world map, and drop in.
You can also support through every.org/yucrown-corporation.
# For teams
Search YuCROWN on Benevity. Participate through Payroll Giving or corporate matching.
Most importantly: this Living Certificate remembers you. It is your personal identity — it does not belong to your company. Wherever your path takes you in the future, this connection travels with you.
05 · From a Single Tree’s Growth, to a Business That Lasts
If one person’s action can carry an ecological identity — then a company’s vision deserves to be permanently recorded too.
Through Earth LinC, every action a company takes becomes an ecological footprint inscribed on-chain. Permanent. Updated in real time. Immutable. Every tree’s growth translates into transparent, verifiable ecological depth for the company.
This is not a one-time investment. It is a covenant of coexistence between business and nature, written into a public chain. You do not own that forest — but you have built the most unbreakable bond between your company and the land.
We Remember Each Other Now
In those ancient languages, the name for plants means “the ones who watch over us.”
For four hundred million years, they tended their underground web, kept each other’s secrets, and remembered every person who ever bent toward the earth.
Today, trees on-chain have an identity. And the people who act for the earth — finally have one too.
Plants have been watching over us for a very long time.
Now, at last, we can remember each other.
For Enterprise & Partnership：[email protected]
Earth LinC is co-founded by YuCROWN Corporation (U.S. 501(c)(3)) and The Resilient Solution Hub (Singapore).
Tree verification partner: EcoMatcher (Certified B Corporation, HK).
Every real tree behind a Living Certificate is recorded in the field by EcoMatcher’s TreeCorder and verified on-chain by TreeChain.
