AfterBurn ($AFTBRN)

Executive Summary & The Wildfire Crisis

AfterBurn ($AFTBRN) is a Regenerative Finance protocol engineered to convert the velocity of decentralized markets into durable, real-world ecological and social restoration. By embedding a transparent fiscal mechanism directly into an ERC-20 token deployed on the Base network, AfterBurn creates a self-sustaining funding pipeline for post-wildfire recovery — financing native reforestation and the reconstruction of the communities left in the ashes.

Where traditional philanthropy is episodic, opaque, and dependent on discretionary donor cycles, AfterBurn is continuous, auditable, and programmatic. Every transaction across the network contributes to a mission treasury whose flows are visible on a public ledger in real time. Capital formation and capital deployment are, for the first time, part of the same on-chain event.

The Wildfire Crisis

Wildfires have escalated from seasonal hazard to structural climate emergency. A warming climate, prolonged drought, and accumulated fuel loads have produced fire seasons of unprecedented severity, incinerating tens of millions of hectares of forest annually and displacing communities across five continents. The consequences compound: destroyed carbon sinks, collapsed watersheds, eroded soils, lost biodiversity, and human settlements reduced to rubble.

Recovery, however, is chronically underfunded. Emergency response captures headlines and short-lived donations; the multi-year work of replanting native forests and rebuilding homes, schools, and infrastructure receives a fraction of the attention and a smaller fraction of the money. This is the funding gap AfterBurn exists to close.

The $AFTBRN On-Chain Solution & Governance

The AfterBurn protocol is defined by a smart contract on the Base Layer-2 network. Base offers the settlement assurances of Ethereum with negligible transaction costs, making micro-scale contributions economically viable and inviting broad, permissionless participation.

The On-Chain Mechanism

A protocol-level transaction tax is applied to every transfer of $AFTBRN and automatically partitioned across three dedicated, publicly-verifiable wallets — Charity, Operations, and Liquidity. No intermediary custodies these flows; the contract itself enforces the split. This transforms ordinary market activity into a perpetual funding engine for restoration, with zero reliance on manual disbursement or trusted third parties.

Governance & Community Voting

AfterBurn is designed to progressively decentralize into a community-governed treasury. $AFTBRN holders are the protocol's stakeholders and, ultimately, its decision-makers. Through a token-weighted governance framework, the community proposes and ratifies which reforestation partners, rebuilding projects, and regional recovery initiatives receive funding from the charity treasury.

Governance is exercised through structured proposals — each specifying a beneficiary, a funding amount, measurable deliverables, and a verification methodology. Proposals proceed to a token-weighted vote; those that pass are executed against the treasury and tracked to completion on-chain. This aligns capital allocation with the collective conviction of the people who hold the asset.

Tokenomics

Supply

$AFTBRN launches with a fixed maximum supply of 10,000,000,000 (10 billion) tokens on the Base network. The supply is immutable; no additional tokens can be minted, providing holders with hard, predictable scarcity.

The 7% Transaction Tax

A 7% tax is levied on trades and automatically routed by the contract into three purpose-built wallets. This is the protocol's fiscal heart — a continuous, self-executing allocation that funds the mission, sustains operations, and deepens market liquidity with every transaction.

3% — Charity: the Automated Wildfire Relief Fund, the philanthropic core of the protocol. These funds finance native tree planting and community reconstruction as directed by governance.

3% — Operations: Core Project Operations & Maintenance, covering development, audits, partnerships, marketing, and the human infrastructure required to scale the ecosystem responsibly.

1% — Liquidity: an Automated Chart Liquidity Injection that continuously reinforces the trading pool, reducing volatility and improving price stability for all participants.

Contract

Radical Transparency

Trust in impact finance has historically been asymmetric: donors send capital and hope it is used as promised. AfterBurn inverts this relationship through radical, verifiable transparency. Every unit of value that flows through the protocol is observable, timestamped, and immutable.

On-Chain Auditability

The Charity, Operations, and Liquidity wallets are public addresses on the Base network. Any person, anywhere, can inspect their balances and complete transaction histories on the BaseScan block explorer — no permission, login, or intermediary required. The protocol's finances are, by construction, an open book.

From Ledger to Living Forest

On-chain transparency establishes where the money goes; AfterBurn extends that assurance into the physical world. Disbursements from the charity treasury are matched to specific, named restoration projects and paired with off-chain evidence: partner attestations, geo-tagged planting coordinates, satellite and drone imagery, tree counts, and survival-rate monitoring over time.

Our long-term objective is a public Impact Dashboard that reconciles each on-chain disbursement with its real-world outcome — hectares restored, trees planted and verified alive, and homes rebuilt — creating a continuous, auditable chain of custody from a single trade all the way to a living forest.

Project Roadmap

AfterBurn's roadmap advances in four deliberate phases — from ignition to a fully community-governed restoration engine.