Kula Brings $50M of Impact Investing Onchain With Community-Governed RWA Model
TL;DR
Kula has brought $50M in impact investing onchain using a community-governed RWA model. It issues governance tokens for projects like limestone in Zambia and hydropower in Nepal, empowering local communities in emerging markets.
Key Takeaways
- •Kula uses onchain governance tokens to give local communities control over natural resource and energy projects in emerging markets.
- •The model focuses on governance rather than just financial exposure, redirecting capital and decision-making to fast-growing economies.
- •Kula's DAO framework enables transparent, compliant onchain governance for real-world assets like limestone concessions and hydropower initiatives.
- •Impact investing exceeds $1.6 trillion globally, but Kula addresses the concentration in high-income countries by empowering excluded communities.
- •RWA tokenization is expected to reach $2 trillion by 2028, with Kula's approach embedding accountability and shifting influence to value-generating communities.
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- Kula has brought $50 million in impact investing fully onchain, allowing local communities to govern natural resources and energy projects in emerging markets.
- The firm issues governance tokens for projects like a limestone concession in Zambia and hydropower in Nepal, ensuring transparent onchain governance.
- Kula aims to redirect capital to fast-growing economies, empowering communities to participate in decision-making and asset management.
- Kula has brought $50 million in impact investing fully onchain, allowing local communities to govern natural resources and energy projects in emerging markets.
- The firm issues governance tokens for projects like a limestone concession in Zambia and hydropower in Nepal, ensuring transparent onchain governance.
- Kula aims to redirect capital to fast-growing economies, empowering communities to participate in decision-making and asset management.
Kula, a decentralized investment firm focused on real-world assets (RWAs), brought $50 million in impact investing fully onchain, with a model that gives local communities direct governance over natural resources, energy and land projects in emerging markets.
Rather than tokenize yield or financial claims, Kula issues governance tokens tied to projects such as a limestone concession in Zambia, a hydropower initiative in Nepal and electric mobility infrastructure across East Africa. Through its Regional Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Framework, each project is governed transparently onchain while remaining compliant across jurisdictions.
“As RWA tokenisation continues to evolve, I think the most meaningful progress will come from expanding who gets to participate in decision-making, not just who gets access to financial exposure,” Paul Jackson, CEO of Kula, told CoinDesk in an interview..
To date, Kula has raised $25 million from partners aligned with its governance-first mission. Impact investing assets currently exceed $1.6 trillion globally, but more than 70% remain concentrated in high-income countries. Kula positions itself as a mechanism to redirect capital and decision-making governance fast-growing economies often excluded from global finance.
“Kula was designed to make previously inaccessible assets investible while empowering communities to participate in the governance of the resources that shape their futures,” Jackson added.
Kula’s DAO architecture allows local stakeholders to vote on capital allocation, asset management and planning. This shifts influence from centralized institutions to communities generating the value.
With RWA tokenization expected to top $2 trillion by 2028, Kula’s approach suggests a future where onchain assets come with embedded accountability, and the power to shape outcomes rests closer to the source, Jackson concluded.
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