🔹 Tens of thousands of children are still working on Ghanaian cocoa farms, which is illegal anywhere else.
🔹 Initiative:
The Swiss blockchain company Fedrok AG, in collaboration with FarmRight Ghana, launched an experiment to monitor child labor through Proof-of-Green blockchain.
The initiative uses biometric vein scanning to verify identity and age.
Every employment contract is permanently recorded on the blockchain, with surprise audits and anonymous community reporting.
🔹 Economic incentive:
Farms that demonstrate they are free of child labor will receive a trusted stamp on the blockchain that allows them to access buyers who pay more for ethical cocoa.
🔹 Technology:
EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain supports high-frequency ESG data registration and is linked to existing sustainability certificates.
The Proof-of-Green mechanism rewards activity on the blockchain using renewable energy, with the FDK token linked to real environmental impact.
🔹 Global expansion:
India: Partnership for underground carbon dioxide sequestration.
Papua New Guinea: A payment platform for indigenous landowners in exchange for reforestation.
Madagascar: Programs to convert waste into digital assets.
💡 If this experiment succeeds, it may be applied to other cocoa-producing areas in West Africa and to other crops facing child labor issues.
🍫 Its goal: to protect children and make cocoa more ethical and transparent, ensuring that the solution is always based on mathematics, encryption, and economic incentives rather than just promises.
