Mālama builds hardware-signed sensing for carbon project developers, and audit-grade data for the buyers, registries, and regulators who have to trust the numbers behind it.
Baselines and emissions are modeled from averages and assumptions, not measured in the field.
Organizations grade their own homework on spreadsheets and certificates, with limited independent proof behind the numbers.
A person visits the site annually, if at all. The other days are taken on trust.
Figures can be adjusted downstream, with no record of what the sensor actually saw.
Independent reviews have repeatedly found gaps between claimed and delivered carbon reductions. Reported energy use at AI data centers is coming under similar scrutiny, and new disclosure rules in California and the EU are raising the legal cost of claims that cannot be verified. This is the problem Mālama exists to fix.
A sensor takes the reading and a secure chip signs it on the spot, before the data ever leaves the device.
The signed reading is checked against cryptographic, physical, spatial, and timing rules, with anomaly detection flagging anything implausible.
A separate network of verifiers cross-checks the reading and confirms it before it is recorded.
The confirmed reading becomes a permanent record on Cardano: a carbon SaveCard, or a verifiable energy-use disclosure record.
This is the same signing architecture running continuously since June 2024. Carbon measurement is live today. Data-center energy monitoring is in pilot development for 2026.
Pilot Node #1, in Dallas, Texas, has signed environmental readings continuously since June 2024, anchored to Cardano mainnet. The same architecture now extends to data-center energy monitoring.
| Standard | What a Mālama record provides | Current status |
|---|---|---|
| Verra VM0042 | Hardware-signed field measurements as supporting evidence | Supporting, not primary |
| Gold Standard | dMRV pilot programme submission-ready records | In pilot, Oct 2026 |
| Puro.earth | Registry-compatible signed data, anchored via CIP-68 | Compatible |
| Isometric v1.2 | Continuous measurement as supporting-tier evidence | Supporting tier |
Continuous sensor data is currently a supporting input, not a substitute for registry-required primary quantification, under current protocol versions. We're working directly with registries to change that as the technology matures.
Move from a once-a-year audit to a continuous, signed record. Deploy sensors on site. Readings are signed and anchored automatically, building a complete record you can hand to your verifier or registry.
Developers report typical annual verification costs of $20,000 to $50,000 or more using manual audits. Continuous signed sensing is designed to reduce that overhead as sensor density increases on a site. These are targets, not realized figures.
Talk to our team about a pilotLicense hardware-signed datasets by API. Define the location and sensor type, fund the request, and receive signed, audit-ready data into your own systems, whether that's a registry filing, a disclosure report, or an underwriting model.
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Carbon measurement, hardware-signed, anchored to Cardano mainnet, running continuously since June 2024.
Rack-level data-center energy monitoring, first pilots scheduled for 2026.
Supply-chain provenance, parametric insurance, precision agriculture, and other physical-world data markets that could run on the same signing architecture. Not yet built.
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