The Stability

Imagine you contribute to a large fund, like Ajo. You get a receipt for your contribution. That money isn't just sitting in a vault; it’s being used by a massive company like Mangote Salt Refineries to build more factories, process more salt and fund business research.

• Why it’s stable: You aren't worried about your money disappearing because people will never stop buying salt. As long as there is salt in the warehouse, your receipt is backed by something real.

The Gains

Now, imagine Mangote finds a way to turn that same salt into a high-value medical product or a specialized industrial chemical. They are now making more money from the same amount of salt tied to your receipt.

• Your Reward: Because your receipt is tied to the value of that salt, your receipt is now worth more than what you originally paid. You get a "gain" because you bet on their ability to turn a simple rock into a high-value product.

The New Rate

If your friend sees your success and wants to join the fund after you’ve cashed out, they can’t buy in at the "old price.".

• The New Standard: Everyone—new and old—must now use the new, higher rate on the receipt to contribute. This ensures that the value created stays in the system and keeps growing, and it means that Mangote buys your receipt back at this new price whenever you need the cash.

The Mass Restriction

If Mangote wants to sell 1 million new receipts to build a new refinery, they must have the salt deposits to back them up. So part of your deal is that no one, not even Mangote, can control when the receipt is printed. It only happens when Mangote has the salt, and you can verify it any time. 

• This means even as the Mangote becomes a global giant, your own receipts always equal real salt in one of their refineries.

Buying ESU means you agree that your money never disappears, and you agree to our contingency plan, that:

If, due to unforseen circumstances this levercoin fails, your money is insured by the ownership transfer of the physical assets (byproducts) themselves, or you give us time to sell them to provide the liquidity. So, we're agreeing to let the world spin, in accordance to national RWA (Real World Asset) filing policies by African governments once we're registered to serve non-coop members in each country where our infrastructure lives.

If you buy from an exchange, you'd be subject to their limited liability—unless they allow you to claim your assets and thus handle the distribution (rare). If you buy as a member (or through the decentralised portal in the near future), the industrial cooperative will be responsible for transferring ownership to you.

See "How do I buy ESU levercoins?" below.

Important Disclosure for Non-Member Contributors:

Please note that ESU is an industrial-linked asset. Transferring physical collateral ownership (byproducts) to non-members is technically complex and governed by different national property laws than those applied to the Cooperative.

Investing via external exchanges or decentralized portals without joining the Cooperative means you accept a 'Liquidity-Only' position. In a contingency event, the Cooperative's primary legal obligation is to its registered members. External holders proceed at their own risk and may face significant delays or legal hurdles in claiming physical assets.

ESU tokens will be externally available through decentralised portals that handle the swap and crypto exchanges we're partnering with, and internally minted to Cooperative members' wallets.

Please take note that we only accept African currencies. Also, becoming a Member is the only way to activate the asset transfer protocol in the worst case scenario, at least for now.

Register your interest level.

As only a token holder, no. The Industrial Cooperative manages the byproduct portfolio.

You're welcome to join—if you meet the requirements, and want more influence over our shared resources and networks through your contributions.

Viruses are also welcome. See if you can hack the Organism.

Our solitary mission is to recapture and recirculate 50% of atmospheric carbon into a resource through planetary-scale environmental biotechnology from Africa.

With ~286 GtC (gigatonnes of Carbon) locked in the air for the past 175 years, and at our current emissions rate (~5 GtC/year), the scale of action required is so large that only typical human consumption can match our emissions rate;

And algae is our only hope to turn the very problem into its own solution on time—before climate disruptions make life more difficult than it already is for us at home.

Africans all over the world want to invest in developing our home, yet there is a scarcity of trustworthy and accessible ventures that can turn a profit through real impact.

ESU's initial supply is set to match our 25-year recapture/recirculation goal of 8.22 GtC/year (until 2050), so while we can theoretically exceed this amount, we're minting at least this amount every year with your funding to grow this much ☝🏾 organic carbon in microalgae biomass. This way,

Unlimited tokens prevent inflation due to scarcity, and mass restriction (1 ESU - 1 tonne of Carbon) prevents dilution due to the hyperliquidity we need to reach planetary scale.

And such a lever is accessible worldwide, with the hopes of becoming a unifying African currency, all thanks to digital technology and digital tokens (cryptocurrency) as a storage of this ecoeconomic potential we desperately need.

ESU is similar to stock strictly in terms of availability, but also to debt in terms of predictability. Yet, it transcends the limitations of both by being equal to renewable physical assets that are almost unlimited by nothing except sunlight (photosynthesis).

When you buy speculative tokens like Bitcoin, you're "borrowing" the blockchain your money, hoping it will increase from scarcity (it often reduces) when you get it back. Buying the first levercoin, ESU, is "borrowing" our industrial cooperative leverage to increase your money by creating new market demand for our byproducts, or securing their value in the physical assets until then. 

It gains only when we meet those conditions, just like a lever only works when you meet its conditions.

We're cooked. The pivot that determines success is how quickly we can scale this up. If we're successfully on track, we can even increase our capture rate.

Solarium & the Organism accept our limitations by aiming for at least 50% removal/recapture as our baseline, understanding that even that is far better than doing nothing. In addition, according to data from the Global CSS Institute in 2026, there are 124 other companies & projects (77 operational) out there working hard to sequester our carbon emissions, and our joint efforts will restabilise the planet.

They don't even know about us yet.

We've calculated for the worst-case scenario (0.01g/L) and found the project still feasible. This worst case will require larger water volumes of which the Earth's oceans are abundant.

We will also stay steadfast in our study to ensure it stays optimal, using all the intelligence & technology at our disposal to reach our goal. Microalgae are resilient and will survive current projections of environmental stress.