Digital marketplace for environmental assets
Rabobank was exploring how to evolve its environmental credit activities from manually executed bilateral transactions into a scalable digital marketplace. The challenge was to create a platform that could connect supply projects with buyers, standardise transactions and provide transparent, verifiable infrastructure for environmental assets.
Financial Services · Sustainability
2020–2022
Product engineering · Platform architecture · Blockchain
MVP to scalable marketplace
Approach
We designed a marketplace architecture that brought multiple supply projects and buyers onto a single platform, creating a consistent way to discover, evaluate and transact environmental credits.
The platform was designed to evolve from manual transactions into a fixed-price marketplace and ultimately support more liquid, scalable trading across projects and asset classes.
Engineered
Digital marketplace connecting environmental credit projects with institutional buyers. Blockchain-based infrastructure for asset provenance and transaction integrity. Event-driven architecture for marketplace workflows and integrations. Cloud-native backend supporting scalable transaction processing, data services and marketplace operations.
- Polygon
- ·TypeScript
- ·Node.js
- ·PostgreSQL
- ·Kafka
- ·AWS
Outcomes
Scalable marketplace
Created a platform model capable of bringing multiple supply projects and buyers into a single marketplace.
Standardised transactions
Enabled more consistent digital workflows for environmental assets, reducing reliance on bespoke bilateral processes.
Transparent infrastructure
Blockchain-backed provenance and transaction records strengthened traceability across the asset lifecycle.
Developed for Rabobank as part of its exploration of scalable digital infrastructure for environmental and sustainability markets.