{"id":30027,"date":"2025-06-03T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30027"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:48:36","slug":"agri-tech-firm-dimitra-partners-with-mantra-to-bring-cacao-carbon-credits-onto-the-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30027","title":{"rendered":"Agri-Tech Firm Dimitra Partners With MANTRA to Bring Cacao, Carbon Credits onto the Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dimitra, a blockchain-based agricultural technology company, has partnered with Layer 1 blockchain platform MANTRA to bring real-world agricultural assets on-chain.<\/p>\n

Jon Trask, Dimitra\u2019s founder CEO, told CoinDesk at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas last week that the partnership aims to eventually bring a billion dollars worth of agricultural assets, starting with cacao in Brazil and carbon credits in Mexico, onto MANTRA\u2019s blockchain.<\/p>\n

Trask added that the two pilot projects with MANTRA are currently small in scale \u2014 in Brazil, only 25 of the 374 cocoa farmers in Brazil\u2019s so-called \u201ccocoa pole\u201d in the southern region of Roraima are currently signed up to participate \u2014\u00a0but could be expanded \u201cindefinitely\u201d with enough investor interest.<\/p>\n

Through the partnership, MANTRA holders will be able to invest directly in smallholder farmers, providing funding for a variety of regenerative agricultural projects in a way that is made traceable and verifiable by the blockchain. Trask estimated that investors could see between a 10-30% return on their investments annually, which he clarified was a a projected range based on preliminary modeling \u2014\u00a0with agriculture comes risks like pests and drought which could impact yield, he added.<\/p>\n

Trask said that Dimitra is still in the process of integrating the two pilot programs with MANTRA, but expects that holders of MANTRA\u2019s native OM token will be able to invest in the projects within the next couple of months.<\/p>\n

Dimitra\u2019s announcement comes a month after MANTRA took a beating. Its OM token plummeted 90% in a flash-crash in April. Since the crash, OM has hovered around $0.34 \u2014\u00a0a far cry from its height of $8.47 in February.<\/p>\n

Asked why Dimitra went forward on a partnership with MANTRA following the fallout, Trask said that the deal pre-dated the crash, but admitted it initially gave him pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made the deal many months ago,\u201d Trask told CoinDesk. \u201cThen they had their crash, and we all took a pause to reassess to ensure we were making the best decisions for the long-term benefit of the community and projects amid a time of volatility.\u201d<\/p>\n

But ultimately Trask decided to move forward with the partnership, telling CoinDesk that, when the dust settled, he still found the fundamental reasons for the partnership to hold true: MANTRA had a strong team, he said, the real-world asset (RWA) development was sound, and he was impressed by their virtual asset service provider (VASP) license, granted by Dubai\u2019s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), which it obtained earlier this year.<\/p>\n

MANTRA has done a number of RWA tokenization projects in the Middle East, including tokenizing $500 million worth of real estate<\/a> in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a Dubai-based real estate group.<\/p>\n

\u201cTokenizing agriculture isn\u2019t just about innovation, it\u2019s about finding solutions to real-world issues long associated with food supply \u2014 at scale \u2014 and for long-term impact,\u201d said John Patrick Mullin, CEO of MANTRA, in a press release shared with CoinDesk. \u201cDimitra is solving real-world problems, with a focus on traceability and transparency \u2014\u00a0and we\u2019re proud to help bring those to a wider audience. MANTRA Chain was built to support projects like these.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dimitra, a blockchain-based agricultural technology company, has partnered with Layer 1 blockchain platform MANTRA to bring real-world agricultural assets on-chain. Jon Trask, Dimitra\u2019s founder CEO, told CoinDesk at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas last week that the partnership aims to eventually bring a billion dollars worth of agricultural assets, starting with cacao in Brazil and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}