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Day 2 of my 7 day @reasonmachines test. Today I pointed their App Auditor agent, running GPT-6.1 Sol, at my own app Crescamus on the live domain. One rule: browse only. No logins, no forms, no touching data. It came back with 𝟵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀. 3 major, 6 minor, nothing critical. Best catch? My Terms of Service still said “governed by the laws of [your jurisdiction]”. I never filled it in. Here is a link to the app crescamus.app Every issue came with steps, a screenshot and a fix. Day 3 tomorrow.

Here's what I'm watching next: the AI verification going live, the first credits certified under standards like Verra or Gold Standard, and the Vietnam pilot. If ESGIN gets those right, a river clean-up in Tangerang stops being a nice photo and becomes data someone will pay for. Would you log your own clean-ups and recycling if they earned you something? @esginglobal $ESGIN #ESGIN #ESGINThread

$ESGIN is an ERC-20 with a 1 billion supply. The biggest slice, 𝟰𝟱%, 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗹 for people doing the work, released monthly over 5 years. Another 15% goes to ESG Banks on the same schedule. Team tokens sit behind a 12-month cliff. Investment tokens are held in project custody until they're distributed. So most of the supply is set aside for the people actually picking up the trash, and it comes out slowly.

This isn't a team working alone in a Discord. In May they signed an MoU with the Indonesia Carbon Trade Association (IDCTA), with ESGIN as a 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳-𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿, meaning a main buyer of credits from member projects. In July they signed with Agraus Resources at the Indonesia Stock Exchange. They're also building digital MRV (the measuring and checking step every carbon credit needs) for Indonesia's recyclers with ADUPI.

The bigger play is real carbon projects. In Lampung, ESGIN has 𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗰𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 in its pipeline to capture methane from their wastewater, an estimated 500,000 tCO₂e of reduction potential. There's also a biochar project using manure from about 20,000 cattle, targeting up to 30,000 tons a year. ESGIN itself calls the 500k an initial estimate, not verified credits, and lists feasibility studies and baselines as the next steps. I respect that a lot more than inflated numbers.

The collection points are called 𝗘𝗦𝗚 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀, local waste banks that plug into the network. The roadmap aims for 150 in Indonesia in the first half of 2026, then 500 with a pilot in Vietnam. One detail I like: only operators willing to take rewards in ESGIN can become official ESG Bank partners, and they get a 3 to 5% bonus for settling in the token. That way the operators have a real reason to stay in the network.

ESGIN's answer starts with the 𝗘𝗦𝗚-𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽, live in Indonesia since June. You log an action, like recycling or collecting waste, with a photo or video, your location and the time. The plan is for AI to check each one, catch fakes and duplicates, and turn it into clean environmental data. You earn points along the way, and those points can be converted into $ESGIN. You can also donate them to environmental groups if you'd rather give than hold.

ESGIN's whitepaper puts the problem in one line: "many environmental activities occurring at the community level remain unmeasured." Every city has people who collect plastic, sort waste and clear drains. Companies want proof of impact and carbon markets want verified data. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁, because nobody records the work in a way anyone can check. No proof, no payment, so the people doing the dirty work stay invisible.

On May 23, ten volunteers spent six hours pulling about 𝟯 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗵 out of one village river in Tangerang, Indonesia. That's more than a truckload. Like most community clean-up work, nobody measured it, so it never showed up in any climate number anywhere. That gap is exactly what @esginglobal is building for, and after digging through their whitepaper and project updates, I think they're onto something $ESGIN #ESGIN #ESGINThread

I gave @reasonmachines one sentence: build a Joke Machine page with one big button, test it in a real browser and send me proof. A few minutes later it was done. It built the page on its own cloud computer, noticed the icons weren’t showing in Chrome and fixed that itself, then clicked the button three times and sent screenshots. I clicked it too: “Why did the computer catch a cold? It left its Windows open!” The whole run is in the video.