The Founder

Hello, my name is Toby Vanlandingham and I am the founder of Karbon Token ($KARBON), a carbon-backed currency on the Kaspa network designed to make carbon offsets transparent, verifiable, and accessible. With a fixed 25M supply and annual vintages like KARBON25, we’re bridging serious ESG solutions with Web3 culture — “The Only Bags That Offset.”

As a Yurok Tribal Councilmember since 2017, I have overseen one of the largest and most respected forest carbon offset programs in North America, generating millions of verified offsets and funding ecological restoration. My experience includes program oversight, verification standards, and governance to ensure integrity and accountability.

I have also been a leader in restoring cultural fire to Yurok lands, working with the Klamath River Local Organizing Committee and the California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative I led the community effort to formally partner with the Yurok Tribe in 2012 to reintroduce cultural fire practices to the reservation — a cornerstone of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

Alongside governance and restoration, I bring Web3 experience as an OG member of the Nacho Creator Team, blending blockchain innovation, community-building, and cultural narrative into climate action.

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Core Focus Areas:
• Carbon offsets & climate finance
• Blockchain & Web3 innovation
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) & land stewardship
• Cultural fire & ecological restoration
• Governance, compliance & transparency

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My mission: to restore ancestral lands, revive biodiversity, and build a transparent carbon marketplace rooted in cultural stewardship and powered by Web3.