algorithmic smart contract. Hyper-local environmental sensors create data about each plant, and the contract optimizes both plant growth and overall environmental benefit through autonomously trading micro-resources like water, fertilizer, solar exposure. It was a marketplace for resources across the ecosystem, garden, planter-bed, and even down to the individual plant scale. Net positives (the excess of both food and carbon sequestration credits) would be distributed to whatever group of investors had pre-funded the garden—what Jonathan playfully called an ‘initial seed offering.’ The whole thing had the nostalgia of “CSA boxes” that farmers used to sell for pre-funding a season. Before the first collapse, anyway. He stood up, stretched, craned his neck up to look out the grimy window. Sweltering. Dusty. Another few hours, probably, before it would be safe to go outside. He still wanted to live-test the BlockGarden code with plant sensors in the growing unit before submitting it to a Corp—probably the Heliyon3 Corporation or the Total Environment4 Corporation. Anyway, he’d have to wait until well after nightfall to go outside and update the firmware. There was time to kill. Jonathan looked down at his forearm, where top5 notifications glowed under his skin. One of them was a civStat push: peer-reviewing a coastal resilience system called Level Sea. Hardware was uncommon— this would be a good distraction—and it might actually be interesting tech. Hard to guess with peer reviews, though. He tapped his wrist to accept.
.:; 3 “Heliyon welcomes research across all disciplines. Any paper reporting original and technically sound results of primary research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards, will be published regardless of its perceived impact.”—A subsidiary of Elsevier Limited, ISSN: 2405-8440
4 “Science of the Total Environment is an international journal for publication of original research on the total environment, which includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and anthroposphere.”—A subsidiary of Elsevier Limited, ISSN: 0048-9697 5
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