Stellar Development Foundation released a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework to measure blockchain environmental impacts. Applied to Stellar's Proof-of-Agreement consensus, the analysis shows Stellar's annual footprint equals emissions from 33.7 US homes, demonstrating efficiency by design.
Stellar Development Foundation published a first-of-its-kind assessment framework methodology to standardize measurement of blockchain environmental impacts across different consensus mechanisms. The report, 'Embracing sustainable blockchain innovation: Understanding the impacts of blockchain technology,' addresses the lack of comparable studies in the industry. SDF applied the framework to Stellar's Proof-of-Agreement consensus mechanism and found the network's annual electricity consumption and CO2 emissions equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 33.7 US homes. The framework is being made available to other blockchains for assessment, advancing transparency and standardization in measuring blockchain sustainability across the industry.
