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PHOENIX
A REGENERATIVE AND CIRCULAR PLATFORM FOR POLLUTION 
REMOVAL AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION TO RENEWABLE 
ENERGY SOURCES

Governance: ASH Token & ASH ENVIRONMENTAL DAO
Utility: Phoenix Launchpad & Phoenix Token 
Ash Token IDO: PancakeSwapTOWARDS A WORLD THAT IS FREE OF POLLUTION

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

For billions of years, planet Earth has been the only cradle that harbors life in the known universe. Since their creation, living forms have been adapting and actively forming Earth’s changing environmental conditions over time.
All manner of life has grown into the planet and is today, its inextricable part, a development that has taken billions of years and which has culminated in the past two hundred million years. It is why we call Earth the Living Planet.
Over the years however, humans have proven to be one of the most puzzling, wonderful, yet, devastating life forms that we know of.
Today, The Earth is at a precipice:
There are between 2 million and 10 million living species on our planet today. Between 10,000 and 100,000 are becoming extinct each year, mostly due to human-induced changes and adverse impact upon the environment.
The area of primary forest worldwide has decreased by over 80 million hectares since 1990, a surface with the approximate combined area of Germany and France.
91% of the world’s human and animal population is exposed to unhealthy levels of pollution.
If the rate of global warming, primarily caused by human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gasses, continues to rise along its current trajectory by the end of the century, we could very well be struggling to survive in a world raked by intense hurricanes, alternating droughts and floods, and cut-throat competition for food, water, and natural resources.
Let this sink in for a moment.
Only recently, in fact, during the past three to five decades, have governments started to address the issue of environmental pollution and climate change through national policies and intergovernmental treaties.  The most significant of these has been the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed by 154 countries at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. That agreement was superseded by the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in 2005, and lastly, the Paris Agreement, which has been effective since 2016.
The aim of these successive agreements has been to tackle climate change and global warming by coordinating global governments’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.
However, the impact of the current policies and activities by national governments, intergovernmental organizations, environmental task forces, and other stakeholders within these agreements have failed to deliver the immediate results necessary to secure life on our planet from the projected catastrophic effects of climate change and environmental degradation through pollution.
As shown in the chart below, current implemented climate and energy policies would reduce warming relative to a world with no climate policies in place.
The chart maps out future greenhouse gas emissions scenarios under a range of assumptions: 
if no climate policies were implemented; 
if current policies continued; 
if all countries achieved their current future pledges for emission reductions; and 
if necessary pathways which are compatible with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C of warming this century.
If countries achieved their current ‘Pledges’ (also shown on the chart), this would be an even further improvement. In this regard, the world is making some progress.
But if the aim is limiting global warming to “well below 2°C” – as is laid out in the Paris Agreement – we are clearly far off-track as a global community.GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND WARMING SCENARIOS
Each pathway comes with uncertainty as marked by the shading from low to high emissions under each scenario.
Warming refers to the expected global temperature rise by 2100, relative to pre-industrial temperatures.
Data source: Climate Action Tracker (based on national policies and pledges as of December 2019). OurWorldinData.org - Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Licensed under CC-BY by the authors Hannah Ritchie & Max Roser.


The reason we are failing to make sufficient progress in tackling global pollution and global warming is the simple fact that only a small fraction of the world’s population is actively involved in dealing with these issues.
While several governments and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have taken measurable steps to bring the issue of pollution and global warming to the forefront of national and regional policies, this has largely not been reflected in the behavior of their industries and population.
The rate of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutions continues to rise. The rate at which we are polluting the global environment and stripping it of natural resources and biodiversity is still greater than our efforts to renew and sustain it.
Humanity has a very limited timeframe to solve these problems and the solution will have to involve an unprecedented mobilization of governments, corporations, organizations, and individuals.
The stakeholders in this process have to truly think globally and act locally while creating a sustainable horizontal network of connecting local, regional, national, and global transformative initiatives into a sustained effort to achieve sufficient reductions of anthropogenic climate change and pollution before it’s too late.
We hereby, endeavor to propose such a solution - The Ash Environmental DAO and its associated assets, the Phoenix Network and the Ash Token.THE PHOENIX NETWORK
FUNDING THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL CAPACITIES FOR MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT AND POLLUTION REMOVAL INNOVATIONS
The current trends and initiatives aimed at fighting global pollution and climate change require rapid and efficient solutions that will allow a long-term adoption of sustainable and more energy efficient sources along with industrial activity that does not further deplete or pollute the global environment.
However, the transition to more energy efficient and non-polluting sources of the human economy is projected to last a long time, far longer than can be afforded when we take into account, the current rate of pollution and carbon emissions, and their potential apocalyptic effect on Earth’s biosphere.
The crucial stakeholders in this transition are not only governments or corporations, but the general public that has in recent years, mobilized into environmental movements mounting pressure and creating initiatives to place climate change and industries that are affecting it, into the spotlight of global affairs.
The Phoenix Network specifically aims to empower local communities around the world to operationalize and scale the process of pollution removal from the global environment and the adoption of cleaner energy sources.
The Phoenix Network is composed of two components: a governance component and a utility component.
The role of the Governance component is to gather participants into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), through which, the community will run the organization and its activities using blockchain technology to create an environment of trust, efficiency, and truly democratic decision making.
The governance component, in turn, is composed of two sub-components:
The ASH Token, a governance token whose holders participate and vote on governance decisions
The ASH Environmental DAO, a decentralized autonomous community that will operate the Phoenix Network
The utility component of the network will provide a platform for the funding, support, growth, and sustainment of environmentally friendly business initiatives.
The utility component is also comprised of two sub-components:
The Phoenix Launchpad:  A funding platform and incubator for environmentally friendly initiatives that aim to remove pollution from the environment and build regenerative, sustainable, and circular economies
The Phoenix Token: Utility token of the Phoenix Launchpad that is minted based on the amount of pollutants removed from the environment by businesses that are funded and supported through the launchpad.

THE PHOENIX MANIFEST
We believe in:
Trust and integrity over contracts and legal protection
Agility and choice over fixed plans and determinism
Meritocracy and fairness over seniority and inherited privilege
Decentralized networks and dynamic leadership over top down hierarchies and personality cults
Health and happiness over wealth and fame
A regenerative circular economy over unsustainable linear growth
A healthy Earth over a dead plane
We shall pursue these goals by:
Building a strong and purposeful community
Nurturing  a culture of mutual aid
Advocating for better public health
Reconciling human needs and environmental balance 
Practicing what we preach
When the core tenets of an enterprise are the people and their ability to bind into a purposeful community, then we have a fundamental incentive to invest in happiness.
In a world of rapid change and unpredictability, it is vital that we maintain our ability to adapt to changing conditions and new opportunities. In practice, this means less upfront planning with fixed objectives, and more controlled risk taking, experimentation and iterative creation of value increments.
It also means an organizational shift from rigid hierarchical corporate and bureaucratic organizations, to small autonomous focused groups horizontally connected into a network with a common purpose and vision.THE ASH ENVIRONMENTAL DAO
To tackle today’s biggest environmental problems, we need to coordinate around our shared values more effectively than our current systems allow.  Afterall, the matter of environmental degradation is a global prerogative and as such, there must a central platform around which, the global community can rally to pursue and support business initiatives that will make Earth a healthier planet.
A Community of Trust
Blockchain and distributed ledger technology makes a new type of organization possible - the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
The DAO is a network of stakeholders with no central governing body, but a set of rules encoded on the blockchain. DAOs have the collaborative potential, which is usually the missing piece to the puzzle of how best to empower the global society to transition to regenerative circular economies that would be the key to the survival of the Human species.
The ASH ENVIRONMENTAL DAO has emerged from a group of founders who have a high degree of integrity and commitment to the environment, funding innovative business initiatives and creating jobs.
We trust each other, rather than rely on legal mechanisms and corporate structures that define most traditional organization. 
Ash Environmental DAO Stakeholders
Instead of a traditional hierarchy of leaders/managers, we will focus on levels of commitment to give some structure to the organization.
The reality is, there will be different levels of commitment to suit individuals’  life situations and these will change over time.
These commitment levels will be well defined but fluid in that, people can move between them easily, completely decoupled from remuneration.
The commitment levels in descending order of impact and accountability:
Navigators
Navigators have a long-term commitment and significant ongoing contributions to growing the value and impact of the Ash ENVIRONMENTAL DAO and Ecosystem towards a world that is free of pollution and is powered by regenerative energy sources.

New Navigators are selected by existing Navigators. It is only natural, understandable, and fully acceptable that life situations of an individual Navigator can change and compel them to step down, if they are not able to maintain this level of commitment and contribution at any point in time.
Navigators make all key decisions, via an agreed decision-making process, that are of strategic importance and in the best interests of the ASH Environmental DAO.
These key decisions include:
Organizational Development
Accepting environmentally-friendly project funding proposals and making decisions that evolve the purpose, values, strategy, constitution, token economics, management of DAO assets, and authorizing the operations and activities of the organization.
Managing Assets Issuance
Navigators have weekly operational meetings and monthly strategy meetings. The governance model will have rules defining how Navigators can join or leave the Navigator Community and the conditions for maintaining the status of a Navigator.
Navigators are remunerated for their work in a combination of Ash Tokens and FIAT where possible.
Contributors
Contributors are individuals or organizations, such as corporations, non-profit organizations or governmental and intergovernmental organizations, who, in exchange for tokens, add value to the Phoenix Network, for example, by voting on operational decisions, suggesting new features, projects, and activities through the Ash Environmental DAO.
If a Contributor is an organization, then they must have one individual decision maker who would represent the organization.
Contributors are invited to the Ash Environmental DAO by Navigators, who will vote and decide on their compatibility with the Phoenix Manifest and system of values along with their ability to contribute to the Phoenix Network.
Token Holders
Individuals can freely enter the Phoenix Network by purchasing or receiving tokens to wallets that can accept Ash Tokens.
Token holders can use their tokens to participate in the activities of the DAO through voting and suggesting new initiatives and features.
Service Providers
Service Providers are individuals or organizations who provide value-adding services and are paid in currency external to the Phoenix Ecosystem, i.e. in fiat or digital currencies.
The Navigators will always strive to get the best value for the ecosystem for the money paid to Service Providers. A Service Provider must at least be a Public Token Holder in order to be considered by Navigators to provide services to the DAO, but they can also be a Contributor or a Navigator.
A Service Provider may over time, be invited to become a Contributor, if the Navigators agree that they satisfy the criteria in terms of value provision, alignment with values, and capacity for long-term commitment to the responsibilities of the Contributor role.
Navigators can at any time decide to terminate the contract of a Service Provider, per conditions defined in the smart contract. Service Providers are remunerated for their work in fiat money or digital assets.
The Ash DAO fund
The Ash DAO Fund is an allocation of fiat and digital assets that the Ash Environmental DAO will use to support or launch environmental projects and sustainable business initiatives across the globe, via the Phoenix Launchpad, the Phoenix Network’s sustainable business incubator.
The Ash DAO fund will be financed from proceeds of the ASH Token economy.
Constitution
The Constitution is a set of principles and operational rules driven by our values. The navigators will evolve the Constitution over time.THE ASH TOKEN
The Ash Token is the first governance token of the Ash Environmental DAO and the entry point for individuals and organizations who want to participate in the Phoenix Network.
The governance function of the ASH Token will allow holders to vote on strategic and operational decisions of the Ash Environmental DAO, depending on their commitment level.
The first decision that Ash Token holders will vote over is the act of founding the Ash Environmental DAO.
Once formed, the ASH Environmental DAO will be the vehicle through which environmentally focused entrepreneurial projects will be funded, developed, and launched in partnership with relevant stakeholders for each market or location via the Phoenix Launchpad.
ASH Token holders, as participants in the DAO, will have the power to suggest a range of DAO features and activities, as well as to vote in operational and strategic decisions, depending on their commitment level.
Some examples of voting would include:
Suggesting and voting over the allocation, distribution and use of DAO funds coming from all revenue streams
Suggesting, selecting, and prioritizing the development and funding of environmental projects that work towards the mission of the Phoenix Network - a world free of pollution and powered by more efficient energy sources.
Suggesting and voting for strategic or operational decisions that impact project implementation
Suggesting decentralized applications to fund and develop on the Phoenix blockchain
Suggesting and voting on decisions in regard to the ASH Environmental DAO structure and governance model.
Technical Setup
The ASH Token (ASH) is a BEP20 token issued on the Binance Smart Chain with a total fixed supply of 10 trillion tokens that will fuel a circular green economy of the Phoenix Network.
The Binance Smart Chain (BSC) is a blockchain network that runs in parallel to the Binance Chain. In contrast to the Binance Chain, BSC features smart contract functionality and compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
The Binance Smart Chain offers our community the added interoperability of facilitating their purchases through Ethereum-based wallets, such as MetaMask. An added advantage of issuing ASH Tokens on the BSC is that it offers our community an affordable blockchain experience through lower transaction fees compared to the Ethereum Network. 
Tokenomics
In the initial development phase of the Phoenix ecosystem, three activities are fundamental to the ASH Token’s utility: earning, burning, and support to environmental projects.
Earning Ash Tokens
A 10% fee is applied to all transactions of ASH Tokens in the Phoenix Ecosystem.
ASH Token holders are incentivized to hold their Tokens by way of the ASH Token Redistribution Mechanism.
5%of all transaction fees are redistributed to ASH token holders
5%of all transaction fees is transferred as liquidity tokens to the PancakeSwap Liquidity Pool (LP)
1%of all transaction fees are transferred to the Phoenix DAO Environmental Fund
1%of all transactions fees burned
88% of all transactions fees are spent on covering blockchain infrastructure costs
Burning Ash Tokens
On a biweekly basis, 60% of the newly accumulated Liquidity Pool tokens will be transferred from the liquidity pool, the majority of them as proceeds for the Ash DAO Environmental Fund.
In the best interests of the community, the burn process is instituted as part of a manual extraction process occurring every 30 days.
The burn process is integrated into the logic of supporting new environmental projects through the Ash DAO Environmental Fund.
The Ash Environmental DAO will be able to adjust the process as the Phoenix ecosystem grows, in order to provide optimal support for these projects.
What is unique about the ASH Token economy is that it universally provides a goodwill commitment to the speculative nature of cryptocurrency trading – both incoming and outgoing transactions intrinsically reflect the environmental and business funding causes of the Ash Environmental DAO.
The initial algorithms for the Ash tokenomics will provide the following tokenomics flow:
Of the newly accumulated LPTokens (the 5% fee) over one month cycle, 60% will be removed from the PancakeSwap Liquidity Pool
50% of the funds removed will be in BNB, and the other 50% in ASH tokens
The tokens will be allocated to overarching environmental initiatives – the Ash DAO Environmental Fund – in public and transparent wallets, vetted by the community constituting the Ash Environmental DAO.
Of the extracted BNB:
67% for environmental project funding 
20% marketing fund
13% business & logistics fund
All three funds will have public wallet addresses providing transparency and audibility to the DAO community.
Of the extracted ASH token from the Liquidity Pool:
67%are burned
33% are allocated to community giveaways such as airdrops and competitions
Of the total ASH token transactions fees:
1% of the accumulated transaction volume over the one-month period will be transferred to the Phoenix DAO Environmental Fund
1% will be burned 

 



Transaction Fee Model

This will be the initial approach to ASH tokenomics, in order to ensure sustainable operations. Moving forward, the Ash Environmental DAO will institute an assessment program involving the whole community of token holders in the decision-making process, with the aim of optimizing the tokenomics to the needs of a growing ecosystem.
The Ash Environmental DAO will also have a wallet set up to hold manual buyback funds - up to 20% of the BNB extracted in a cycle can be returned to the pool to support stable liquidity.
Adaptability is a key security measure that the team upholds to put ASH Token in the best position for long-term sustainability and growth.
Token Sale
The ASH Token will first enter a private sale for strategic partners and backers. Further to this, the ASH Token’s initial token liquidity pool will be locked under a certified liquidity locker, ensuring safety and security for our community of backers.
Following the private sale, the Phoenix DAO will launch a public sale of the ASH Token on PancakeSwap, a Binance Smart Chain based Decentralized Exchange (DEX) for swapping BEP-20 tokens.
To facilitate the ASH Token IDO (Initial DEX Offering), PancakeSwap will offer our community the ability to exchange their BNB for ASH tokens. The ASH Token shall also be listed on other major exchanges in the near future.
Ash Token Total Supply
Allocation: 10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion)
Foundation: 5,500,000,000,000 
Fundraise: 3,000,000,000,000 
Team: 1.000,000,000,000 
Team Liquidity Pool: 500,000,000,000

THE PHOENIX LAUNCHPAD
The Phoenix Launchpad will be a platform for funding and launching new and
Expanding existing environmentally sustainable business projects.
The Phoenix Launchpad will be developed by the ASH Environmental DAO community, more precisely, by delegated Navigators with domain expertise across facets of sustainable development and environmental accountability.
Each new project will have to meet strict criteria for environmental impact, job creation, revenue generation and capacity to sustain the Phoenix Ecosystem’s regenerative and circular economy.




THE PHOENIX TOKEN
Once the Phoenix Launchpad is in operation, managed by the Ash Environmental DAO community of Ash Token holders, our vision is to create an entirely new asset class modeled to incentivize and fuel the removal of pollution from the global environment.
We are calling this new asset class an inverse digital asset - the Phoenix Token. The underlying asset of an inverse digital asset is something that we want to remove in order to create value in the real world. In the use case of the Phoenix Launchpad and Ash Environmental DAO, the community wants to remove pollutants from the global environment, create meaningful jobs, move the planet towards ecological balance, and create a regenerative and circular economy aligned to the Earth’s capacity to sustain life.
At present, our vision is to mint new Phoenix Tokens using a Proof-of-Work (POW) mechanism. Each token will be minted based on an amount of pollution removed from the environment, specifically determined based on the type of pollutant.
The validation of pollution removal that comes as a result of the activities of the Phoenix Launchpad participants will be performed by a system of oracles and data validators, who are service providers with Contributor or Navigator status in the Ash Environmental DAO, for which they will be rewarded in Ash Tokens.
The Phoenix Token will have a utility function within the Phoenix Launchpad ecosystem, providing access to data about the journey of a pollutant from its origin and effect in the natural environment, to its transformation into a renewable primary resource to be used in the human economy, or its decomposition into its natural building blocks.
For each minted Phoenix Token, Launchpad participants will be rewarded in Ash Tokens from the Foundation allocation, allowing them to participate in the Ash Environmental DAO based on the merit of their contributions to a cleaner environment.

ROADMAP
The Phoenix Whitepaper…..Completed
Create ASH token and Setup Allocation…..Completed
Create Smart Contracts to Support Whitepaper…..Completed 
Private sale…..17 April 2023 to 7 May 2023
IDO…..Completed
Formation of the Ash Environmental DAO…..Completed
Listings cross-chain DEXs…..Ongoing
Listings CEXs…..Ongoing
Develop Phoenix Launchpad…..To be completed by June 2024
Create the Phoenix Token…..To be completed by June 2024
Kick-off first Phoenix Launch pad funding cycle…..by June 2024