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Roadmap, pilot and decisions

Five phases and four gates. The closed pilot with real partners gates the marketplace and expansion. About 6 to 9 months to a controlled production launch is a planning estimate, not a delivery promise.

Roadmap with five phases and four gates — Phases are not drawn to scale. Gate 4 is the ten launch gates on the technology page.

Phase 0 · 2–4 weeks

Foundation

Legal structure, payout policy, partner contracts, threat model. Gate 1: the 3 decisions are frozen.

Phase 1 · 8–12 weeks

MVP on testnet

Sponsor portal, planter app, photo and GPS proof, NFT certificate. Gate 2: testnet demo works end to end.

Phase 2 · 6–10 weeks

Closed pilot

1–3 NGO partners, first 50–100 live tasks, then 500–1,000 trees if outcomes allow. Gate 3: spot checks pass.

Phase 3 · 8–12 weeks

Production

Marketplace, corporate reports, external audit, refund flows. Gate 4: launch gates met.

Phase 4 · later

Expansion

More countries, verifier network, carbon projects (separate standards workstream), social modules.

First milestone

Sponsor funds, approved planting task, real evidence, independent verification, authorised payment and a Living Tree NFT, end to end on the testnet with failure cases and reconciliation tests.

Before coding starts

Specifications to freeze first

This blueprint is the architecture baseline. Coding can begin on the Ramestta testnet, but not on mainnet. The Developer Execution Specification v1.0 freezes:

Complete SQL schema with constraints and relationships.
Request and response contract for every API.
For each smart contract: functions, permissions, events, errors and invariants.
Screens for every role, mapped to the APIs they call.
State machines for escrow, verification, settlement, refund and maintenance.
Unit, integration, security and end-to-end acceptance tests.

No-go criteria (P0)

When the pilot must stop

No signed operating partner and no permitted land sites
Funds that do not reconcile, or undisclosed payout beneficiaries
An unresolved critical smart-contract audit finding
An evidence rejection with no appeal path, or an unchecked payout exception
Carbon offsets presented publicly without certification
A long-term maintenance promise with no credible funding
A data breach, or no way to take down a sensitive public image

Decision register

Suggested defaults and what needs approval

Decision	Suggested default	Status
Brand	Froxygen for the platform; NFTrees as a module	Proposed
Settlement	Fiat-first sponsorship; RAMA only for gas	Gate
FRX 10 billion supply	Do not mint at launch	Proposed
Donation split	Cost-first contracted deliverables; keep 80/10/10 only as an archived example	Gate
NFT 3× or 5× listing	Optional suggested asking price only	Proposed
NFT royalties	Explicit creator rights with a capped royalty the venue can enforce	Gate
Maintenance duration	Funded one-year pilot; 10 or 15-year care as a separate contract	Gate
Community 50-vote threshold	Supporting signal only; independent final attestation	Proposed
Carbon credits	No sale or claim until registry issuance	Gate
First region and species	One legally permitted Indian cluster; ecology-approved native species	Gate
NFT first-sale share for the sponsor (70/20/10)	Design kept, switched off until counsel clears it	Gate
NFT auto-listing	Five successive listing windows, one active at a time	Proposed
Replacement identity	A new Tree ID and a new NFT, linked both ways	Proposed
Custody mode at launch	Fiat custody with an on-chain commitment record	Gate

Proposed means the team can adopt it now; Gate means legal, partner, field or governance approval is needed first.

Minimum team

Who builds and runs the pilot

A technical lead, two full-stack engineers, one mobile engineer, one blockchain and security engineer, a product designer, QA, a field-programme coordinator and an ecology consultant, with part-time legal and finance support.

Cost depends on location, hiring mix, compliance scope and partner capacity, so no budget figure is given here.

Risks

Biggest risks

Fake or AI-generated evidence
No paying sponsor or NGO partner
Trees dying after payment
Maintenance underfunded over 10 to 15 years
A token or NFT being treated as an investment product
Pilot costs higher than the placeholder