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JPMorgan Uses Blockchain, Updating the Independent Carbon Credit Market

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Business Honor
08 July, 2025

JPMorgan, with its Kinexys Digital Assets platform, improves transparency of carbon markets by tokenizing credits and allowing safe digital transactions.

JPMorgan is developing a system based on blockchain technology with its Kinexys Digital Assets platform, marking an important step towards updating the independent carbon credit market. With the goal to reduce market division and improve transparency, and to create a unified, digital carbon environment where carbon credits can be issued, monitored, and transferred easily.

Carbon registries will soon be able to transform credit holdings and significant project information into digital assets with the bank's new platform. Blockchain technology will then be used to handle and distribute these tokens while allowing security for data and continuous monitoring. Development is currently led by JPMorgan's blockchain business unit, which has so far processed over $1.5 trillion in operations.

The voluntary carbon market is ready for change, says Alastair Northway, Head of Natural Resource Advisory at J.P. Morgan Solutions. Highlighting the process of tokenization that could lead to a more secure and reliable worldwide system, raising trust and improving the efficiency of the market. Markets could be in an excellent position to quickly adopt this new technology because a great deal of carbon credits is distributed by a small number of registries, according to JPMorgan. Platform will not examine the quality of credits. Instead, it will provide uniform data standards and tools for customers to assess the data themselves.

The International Carbon Registry will analyze Kinexys as part of the project for its capabilities like tracking projects, account setup, and system performance. Platform's compliance with different types of data will also be examined throughout the testing stage. "This partnership is an important step towards developing a more reliable and transparent carbon market," stated Oli Torfason, the registry's chief operating officer. Reliable, primarily digital carbon market that encourages easier, smarter climate action worldwide may be developed in the future with the support of JPMorgan's blockchain system.