Project / Event Name
Escola da Regeneração do Cacau - Season 6
Location & Date
Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil, connected to cacao networks in Bahia.
November 2025 – September 2026, through a sequence of regenerative network meetings, cacao acquisition and processing, artisanal chocolate production, Web3 experiments, community-currency infrastructure, territorial coordination and preparation of an in-person cacao + Web3 educational activity in Bahia.
Key Forms of Capital Activated
Living, Social, Cultural, Intellectual, Experiential, Financial, Material, Spiritual
Attendance & Audience
The Escola da Regeneração do Cacau developed as a distributed process rather than a single event.
The work connected people from regenerative networks in São Paulo and Bahia, including Greenpill Brasil, ReRe, cacao producers and territorial networks connected to CabrucaDAO, Coop dos Povos and BayaNativa.
The project also involved participants in Greenpill Brasil activities, network meetings, cacao production and chocolate distribution, as well as ongoing Tuesday and Sunday meetings with the Bahia network since April 2026.
The next territorial stage is being prepared as an in-person activity combining cacao experience and Web3 education through the BayaNativa / Pedagogingas network. Attendance for that activity will be documented through participant lists and media records once completed.
Evidence available:
[LINK TO PARTICIPANT / MEETING RECORDS]
[INSERT LINK TO FUTURE ACTIVITY ATTENDANCE RECORD]
Event Overview & Highlights
The Escola da Regeneração do Cacau started from a practical question:
What happens when a regenerative network uses a real material resource, such as cacao, as the common reference point for experimenting with new forms of coordination, value circulation and Web3 infrastructure?
The experiment developed through several connected stages.
The initial context was Casa Hateva and the Festival Florescer in November 2025, followed by participation in ReRe and then Greenpill Brasil. These relationships created the environment in which the cacao experiment could move from an idea into a real material process.
The project then connected cacao from Bahia with artisanal transformation in São Paulo.
Through the Gardens process, 1,520 GPBRV were allocated, including resources specifically used for cacao acquisition and production. The cacao acquisition was documented through a transaction record, and the project maintains photographic documentation of the material process from harvesting and post-harvest processing through chocolate production.
Cacao acquisition:
[INSERT LINK TO TRANSACTION RECORD]
Harvesting / processing documentation:
[INSERT LINK TO PHOTO DOCUMENTATION]
The Bahia cacao went through harvesting, pulp removal, fermentation and drying. These stages were documented through the network involving producers and territorial partners.
At the same time, logistics became a real constraint. The Bahia cacao flow could not immediately be completed from the territory of origin to the production base in São Paulo. Rather than stopping the productive experiment, local cacao was acquired through Casa Hateva and chocolate production continued.
This created an important distinction in the process: the Bahia cacao flow and the local São Paulo cacao flow became two related but separate material flows.
The chocolate was produced in São Paulo through an artisanal bean-to-bar process.
Chocolate production documentation:
[INSERT LINK TO PHOTO / VIDEO DOCUMENTATION]
Part of the resulting chocolate was delivered to members of the Greenpill Brasil network, creating a tangible connection between the network’s regenerative coordination experiments and the physical product.
Delivery documentation:
[LINK TO DELIVERY RECORDS]
The project then added another layer: community currency infrastructure.
A total of 4,200 K-KAU was created for the planned circulation of the chocolate, with corresponding Sarafu offers configured. The intention was to test whether a physical product could become a reference point for community exchange, value circulation and regenerative coordination.
The important distinction is that the infrastructure has been created, but effective K-KAU circulation has not yet happened.
K-KAU / Sarafu documentation:
[LINK TO K-KAU CREATION RECORD]
[LINK TO SARAFU OFFERS]
The project therefore moved through several layers:
cacao → transformation → chocolate → digital representation → community circulation
Each layer introduced a new coordination question.
Territorial Network & Return to Bahia
An important part of the experiment was maintaining the connection with the territory where the cacao originates.
The Bahia network did not begin with Greenpill. Existing territorial relationships were already active, and the project connected with them through cacao, regenerative networks and Web3 experimentation.
During 2026, relationships developed around CabrucaDAO, Coop dos Povos, agricultural communities and women’s networks. Regular Tuesday and Sunday meetings provided continuity for this work.
A further step is now being prepared through the BayaNativa / Pedagogingas network: an in-person activity combining the cacao experience with practical Web3 education.
The intention is to bring the experience back to the territory not simply as technology, but as a concrete learning experience based on the cacao itself.
@cabruca also made cacao available for this territorial activity, documented through a message accompanied by a photograph of the cacao.
Evidence of cacao made available for the activity:
[INSERT PRINT / LINK TO PABLO’S MESSAGE + CACAO PHOTO]
The activity is still in preparation at the time of this report, so no completed attendance or impact is claimed here.
This creates a potentially important cycle:
Bahia → São Paulo → Bahia
Cacao leaves its territory of origin, becomes part of a process of transformation and experimentation in São Paulo, and the experience is then being prepared to return to the territory through education, relationships and new forms of coordination.
Artizen
The Escola da Regeneração do Cacau was also presented through Artizen Season 6.
The Artizen proposal focused primarily on the next territorial stage of the project: connecting cacao, regenerative education, Web3 and in-person gatherings in Bahia.
As of September 2026, Artizen funds had not yet been distributed.
This is important for the attribution of impact: the cacao acquisition, processing, chocolate production and other completed activities described above are not being attributed to Artizen funding.
The Artizen process nevertheless became an important international learning and coordination environment.
It provided an opportunity to articulate the project beyond the existing local network, learn how to present a regenerative project to an international funding community, mobilize people around the project and explore future financing for the territorial stage.
Artizen project:
[ARTIZEN PROJECT LINK]
Artizen documentation / impact report:
[INSERT LINK]
Verifiable Proof & Documentation
The project maintains supporting evidence for the main stages described above.
Rather than reproducing the entire evidence archive in this report, the main records can be made available for verification.
The evidence includes:
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Gardens proposal and approval;
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Gardens resource allocation;
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cacao acquisition transaction;
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cacao harvesting;
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pulp removal and post-harvest processing;
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fermentation and drying;
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transportation and territorial coordination;
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chocolate production;
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chocolate deliveries;
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K-KAU creation;
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Sarafu configuration;
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Bahia network meetings;
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territorial activity preparation;
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Artizen project and documentation.
Gardens / cacao acquisition:
[LINK]
Cacao harvesting and processing:
[INSERT LINK]
Chocolate production:
[INSERT LINK]
Greenpill Brasil deliveries:
[LINK]
K-KAU / Sarafu:
[LINK1]
[LINK2]
Bahia network / territorial coordination:
[LINK1]
[LINK2]
BayaNativa / Pedagogingas activity:
[LINK]
The complete evidence chain will be consolidated into a final traceability document at the end of the cycle.
Impact & Reflections
The most visible impact of the project is that a real regenerative resource became the basis for an extended experiment in coordination.
The Living capital is represented by cacao and the agricultural systems and people connected to it.
The Material capital is represented by the cacao, production infrastructure and chocolate itself.
The Financial capital moved through different mechanisms, including Gardens and person-to-person coordination.
The Social and Cultural capital emerged through relationships between producers, territorial organizations, regenerative communities and people working across São Paulo and Bahia.
The Intellectual and Experiential capital came from learning by doing: producing chocolate, coordinating resources, working with community currencies, experimenting with tokenization and dealing with the practical limitations of physical logistics.
The Spiritual capital is connected to the project’s underlying orientation toward reciprocity, regeneration and relationships with territory.
One of the strongest learnings from the cycle is that creating technological infrastructure is not the same as creating circulation.
The K-KAU infrastructure can be created. The Sarafu offers can be configured. The cacao can be transformed into chocolate.
But meaningful circulation still depends on relationships, trust, logistics, participation and coordination.
The same became visible in the physical cacao flow.
The financial and productive components could move forward, but transportation between Bahia and São Paulo became a bottleneck. This demonstrated that physical logistics can be as important to a Web3 regenerative project as the digital infrastructure itself.
Another learning was that having records is not the same as having a fully structured traceability system.
The project already has evidence for the major stages of the process: financial transactions, cacao acquisition, harvesting, processing, chocolate production and network activities.
The current learning challenge is to organize those records into a structure that makes it possible to reconstruct the complete relationship between:
resource → people → material → transformation → movement → product → circulation → outcome
This is one of the reasons participation in Greenpill has been important to the project.
I entered this ecosystem because I was looking for ways to align technology with regeneration. Through this process, I have been learning that the most useful technological layer is not necessarily the most complex one. It is the layer that helps people understand what is happening, where resources are moving, where they are getting stuck and what coordination is needed next.
The project is therefore less about creating a tokenized chocolate product and more about using cacao as a common, observable unit through which a regenerative network can learn how value actually moves.
Current Status
Completed / documented:
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Gardens proposal approved;
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1,520 GPBRV allocated through Gardens;
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cacao acquired with Gardens resources;
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harvesting documented;
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post-harvest processing documented;
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chocolate produced;
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chocolate delivered to Greenpill Brasil;
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4,200 K-KAU created;
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Sarafu offers configured;
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Bahia network relationships maintained;
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Artizen project submitted and documented.
In progress:
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completion of the Bahia → São Paulo cacao logistics;
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effective K-KAU circulation;
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in-person cacao + Web3 educational activity in Bahia;
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further territorial coordination;
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organization of the complete evidence chain;
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final traceability documentation for Greenpill Brasil.
Artizen funding: not yet distributed as of September 2026.
The project is therefore still an active cycle rather than a completed one.
Next Stage
The next stage is to move from infrastructure and experimentation toward a more complete cycle of territorial circulation.
The immediate focus is:
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complete the physical cacao flow between Bahia and São Paulo;
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continue the chocolate production and circulation experiment;
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conduct the in-person cacao + Web3 educational activity in Bahia;
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document participation and territorial outcomes;
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improve the traceability structure connecting financial, material, social and digital records;
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consolidate the complete cycle as a final report for Greenpill Brasil.
The intention is to continue testing a simple proposition:
Technology becomes regenerative when it helps a network see, coordinate and circulate the value that already exists in its relationships and territory.
