Josh Crumb

Menē crafts 24 karat gold and platinum investment jewelry™ that is transparently sold by gram weight. By combining innovative technology with timeless design, Menē restores the ancient tradition of jewelry as a store of enduring value. OUR FOUNDING MISSION Our company was founded by Roy Sebag and Diana W. Picasso who feel that luxury jewelry brands have increasingly lost sight of the importance for jewelry to have lasting value. Together, Diana and Roy have established a unique business that empowers consumers to view jewelry as an asset which retains its savings value while satisfying our innate human desire for self-expression and recollection through time. OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES Three principles of transparency uphold our commitment to crafting jewelry that sustains its original value: 1) Menē jewelry is crafted from pure 24 karat gold (Au) and platinum (Pt) with no diamonds or gemstones. This means our creations become a timeless physical object that will never tarnish (unlike man-made chemical alloys of 18 karats or less). It also means that simply weighing Menē jewelry will always unveil its objective value. 2) Menē jewelry is sold by the gold and platinum weight value plus a transparent design and manufacturing premium. This premium is never more than 20% of the precious metal value each day. The result: a $1,000 Menē ring will have at least $800 in gold or platinum value at the time of purchase while $200 is the revenue earned by Menē. 3) Menē provides a lifetime guarantee to buy-back or exchange any authentic Menē jewelry at the prevailing gold and platinum prices minus a 10% fee. These principles result in a truly revolutionary value proposition for the consumer. A rise in gold or platinum values of just 21% would render the jewelry more valuable than at the time of purchase. Since 1971, the price of Gold has risen by 3,100%. If history is to repeat, Menē jewelry will maintain its purchasing power and appreciate as an exceptional investment.

Founded in 2014, Coffee Cherry Co is an agricultural innovation with the potential to do some really great things for the world. Each year the billions of coffee beans that eventually make their way into the Americanos, lattes, and cappuccinos of the world are harvested by milling and extracting them from the coffee plant. The surrounding fruit is discarded, often dumped into rivers or left to rot in heaps. So we invented something better to do with it. Something that’s better for everyone. For food & beverage companies, it is an all-natural, clean-label, nutrient-dense and distinctly flavorful ingredient as a sustainable found food. For farmers and families in coffee growing countries, it creates sustainable jobs and a new revenue source for some of the poorest areas of the world. And, for the environment, it removes botanical waste from streams and soil, strengthening the land and lives of the people and species there.

Base Carbon is in the business of providing capital, development expertise and management operating resources to projects involved primarily in voluntary carbon markets and the broader ESG economy. Base Carbon seeks to be the preferred carbon project partner in providing capital and developmental resources to carbon projects globally and, where appropriate, will endeavour to utilize technologies within the evolving carbon industry to enhance efficiencies, commercial credibility, and trading transparency. Get in touch: info@basecarbon.com Learn More: www.basecarbon.com

SmarterMarkets™ is a global community of industry leaders harnessing the power of markets and technology to redesign our systems to build a better, more connected world. How do we build Smarter Markets? We’re starting with a media platform designed for people to talk to each other, not past each other, about the biggest challenges that we face as a society — including the energy transition. The podcast, presented by Abaxx Technologies, brings together the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them.

Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse (Abaxx Exchange) introduces centrally cleared, physically delivered futures contracts and derivatives to deliver better price signals, better risk management and an enhanced market ecosystem enabling energy and commodity markets to accelerate the energy transition. Licensed as an Recognised Market Operator (RMO) and an Approved Clearinghouse (ACH) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Exchanges initial focus is global LNG and Carbon and Nickel benchmarks followed by continued solutions for Battery Metals. Tomorrow’s energy transition is happening today, resulting in a generational opportunity to build new exchange market infrastructure. The global energy transition is bolstering demand for key commodities such as LNG, carbon credits, and battery metals however, strong demand and uncertain supply, coupled with a lack of effective market infrastructure and risk management tools for many growth commodities has led to several market problems. Abaxx provides solutions to directly address key exchange landscape problems and will operate the only commodity-only futures exchange and clearinghouse based in APAC (excluding China) solely dedicated to physical delivery commodity futures. Abaxx Exchange will deploy evolutionary risk management tools that not only keep pace with market innovation, but set the innovation standard. The tools we are building are designed to meet a host of energy and metals market participants exactly where they are — providing solutions infused with traditional risk management and enhanced with tech-enabled improvements to transaction velocity and data security that resonate across a multi-faceted and functionally tailored trading ecosystem.

Abaxx Technologies is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges that we face as a society, including climate change and the energy transition. In addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make communication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is launching Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to support trading and risk management with physically-settled benchmark futures contracts in the commodity markets at the center of the energy transition to an electrified, low-carbon emissions economy. Abaxx is a founding shareholder in Base Carbon Inc. and the creator and producer of the SmarterMarkets™ podcast. For more information please visit abaxx.tech, abaxx.exchange, basecarbon.com and smartermarkets.media.

Abaxx Technologies is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges that we face as a society, including climate change and the energy transition. In addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make communication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is launching Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to support trading and risk management with physically-settled benchmark futures contracts in the commodity markets at the center of the energy transition to an electrified, low-carbon emissions economy. Abaxx is a founding shareholder in Base Carbon Inc. and the creator and producer of the SmarterMarkets™ podcast. For more information please visit abaxx.tech, abaxx.exchange, basecarbon.com and smartermarkets.media.