Comoris Selected for Global Environmental Grant Program 'Ma Earth'; Crowdfunding Launches July 1

Comoris DAO LLC (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Co-Representatives: Ryuichi Minami, Kakuro Ogaki, Hideaki Watanabe), which operates the Urban Share Forest 'Comoris', announces its selection for Round 3 of the global environmental funding program 'Ma Earth' with a project utilizing the digital community currency 'FoR (For)'. In conjunction, a crowdfunding campaign will begin on July 1, 2026 (Wednesday) via the Ma Earth platform.

▶ Ma Earth Project Page: https://maearth.com/comoris/forforest

About Ma Earth

A fundraising ecosystem where small contributions become powerful forces for the planet

Ma Earth is a collective fundraising platform supporting community-led environmental regeneration. Grassroots communities worldwide are working on land restoration, water source protection, and ecosystem preservation, yet face an estimated annual funding gap of $1 trillion—posing a major barrier to scaling their efforts.

To bridge this gap, Ma Earth, a tax-exempt foundation based in Switzerland, collaborates with international partners such as the Hypercerts Foundation to create new financial flows connecting people and land. By advancing the shift toward regenerative and relational economies, Ma Earth aims to realize a world where the economy serves life—where prosperity is measured not by wealth accumulation, but by the vitality of land, water, and communities.

For funding regenerative communities, Ma Earth adopts 'Quadratic Funding'—a democratic matching method that prioritizes 'how many people support' a project over the total donation amount. This mechanism values broad community resonance, allocating more matching funds to projects that receive support from a larger number of people, even if individual contributions are small.

For example, if two projects each raise $200, the one supported by 20 people will receive significantly more matching funds than the one supported by only 4, as it demonstrates wider community backing.

In its first two pilot rounds, Ma Earth distributed over $400,000 to more than 50 projects. For this third round, it plans to allocate $500,000 in matching funds to over 100 projects worldwide.

▶ Ma Earth Official Website: https://maearth.com/

About the Selected Project

Urban Forest × Parking through the Regenerative Coin 'FoR'

Comoris will now introduce the digital community currency 'FoR', designed to circulate care for nature, into its operations to create a new kind of space: a parking lot that also functions as an open urban forest. This project, under the goal of 'Urban Regeneration: Fostering More-Than-Human Communities by Digital Tokens', marks the first time a Japanese community has been selected by Ma Earth*.

* Based on the list of selected projects published on the Ma Earth official website (as of June 2026, internal research)

The project site is a vacant lot of approximately 200㎡ in Shibuya Ward. Instead of being paved with asphalt as a typical parking lot, it will be transformed into a 'rain garden'—a green urban infrastructure—by employing land-restorative construction methods and greening, becoming a community forest-integrated parking facility.

The digital community currency 'FoR', earned through contributions to this initiative, can be exchanged at an upcoming farm stand within the parking lot for products and experiences connected to mountain forests.

A small act of care for the forest leads to enriching life experiences, which in turn generate funds to nurture more forests—a new economic cycle that will begin from this very place.

About FoR (For)

FoR is a regenerative digital community currency powered by blockchain technology. Built on the principle that 'what’s good for nature comes back to enrich our lives', FoR automatically pools a portion of every transaction into a 'Forest Regeneration Fund (Collective Wallet)', creating a system where 'the more you use it, the richer the forest becomes'. It is built on Celo, an Ethereum L2 optimized for security and microtransactions.

FoR Official Website: https://forforest.app/ Whitepaper: https://forforest.gitbook.io/for

Crowdfunding Launch on July 1, 2026

Connecting Global Finance to Japan’s Green Spaces

This selection represents a significant step toward our larger goal of connecting global finance to enrich Japan’s green spaces—forests, satoyama, and urban greenery. To overcome the structural funding fragmentation faced by Japan’s environmental regeneration efforts, we will link cross-border empathy and capital flows directly to a tangible 'forest' in Comoris and a tangible 'currency' in FoR.

The crowdfunding campaign will run for three weeks starting July 1, 2026, on the Ma Earth platform. Under the quadratic funding mechanism, each individual contribution from supporters will be amplified into greater regeneration capital through matching.

Anyone can participate, starting from just $1.

Please join us at the gateway to 'enriching Japan’s green spaces together with the world'.

Crowdfunding Overview

Project Name

Urban Regeneration: Fostering More-Than-Human Communities by Digital Tokens

Crowdfunding Period

July 1, 2026 (Wed) – July 21, 2026 (Mon) 19:00 JST

Contribution Amount

$1 and above (any amount)

Support & Project Details

https://maearth.com/comoris/forforest

Comoris - Urban Share Forest

Comoris is a membership-based shared forest that creates small forests on urban vacant or underutilized land. By maintaining these spaces through enjoyment of nature and diverse activities, members realize a nature-positive urban lifestyle—beneficial for both personal well-being and the planet. Participation in various learning programs, including wild plant-based food events and hands-on forest workshops, fosters deeper connections with nature.

Operating Company: Comoris DAO LLC

Address: Silhouette 303, 21-9 Motoyoyogi-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Established: October 1, 2024

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