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GROW · CONNECT · EARN

Pre-alpha · building in the open

Plant a Tree.
Harvest verifiable data.

An open-source environmental DePIN on the Chia blockchain.

Low-cost ESP32 sensors measure the real world, sign their readings, prove their uptime on-chain, and earn operators $JUICE. Hardware, firmware, dashboards, and reward logic — all open source, all forkable.

View the code Where it's headed →

What is The Orchard?

A community-buildable network of verifiable sensors.

The Orchard turns inexpensive ESP32 hardware into Trees — verifiable environmental sensing nodes. Each Tree measures the world around it, cryptographically signs its readings, has its uptime attested on Chia, and earns its operator $JUICE. The token supports the network; it isn't the point of it.

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Step 1 · Grow

Plant a Tree

Flash a low-cost ESP32-S3, add the sensors you want — air quality, temperature, humidity, pressure, GPS, particulates — and bring it online. Drivers are modular, so you add or skip any.

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Step 2 · Connect

Harvest data

Your Tree signs each reading and reports its uptime every Season. Readings are verifiable and attested to the Chia DataLayer — a tamper-evident, on-chain key/value store.

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Step 3 · Earn

Earn $JUICE

Operators earn $JUICE — a Chia CAT token — proportional to verified uptime. Hardware-first and infrastructure-first, never hype-first.

Where things stand · June 2026

Current state: a working proof of concept.

This is pre-alpha. Things break — that's expected, and it all happens in the open. The first Tree is in the ground and the full stack exists; we're hardening it toward something testers can run end-to-end.

Live today

  • The first Tree is deployed — a Freenove ESP32-S3 with air-quality and GPS sensing, running in a waterproof enclosure in Mount Washington, KY.
  • $JUICE is live on Chia mainnet — a fixed-supply CAT, single issuance of 100,000,000, verifiable on any Chia explorer.
  • The whole stack is open source — firmware, oracle, dashboard, Chia integration, and the Orchard Pass NFT, all under Apache 2.0 with a patent grant.

In active development

  • Tree firmware — ESP32-S3, modular sensor drivers, cryptographically signed submissions, over-the-air updates.
  • The oracle & Orchard View — a local service that ingests readings and tracks Season uptime, plus a dashboard to scan, configure, and watch your Trees.
  • The rewards loop — Season attestation to the Chia DataLayer and the manual $JUICE harvest that pays operators.

Where it's headed

From a single Tree to a trustless network.

The near-term goal is a complete, honest loop: plant a Tree, prove it's running, get paid. The long-term goal is to make that loop need as little trust as possible — verification that increasingly lives on-chain, and a node ecosystem far beyond one board.

Now — hardening

Make it real for testers

  • More modular sensor drivers (temp/humidity, pressure, light, PM2.5)
  • Signed over-the-air firmware updates
  • Get Trees into testers' hands and iterate the setup experience
Later — trustless & modular

Less trust, more devices

  • Uptime proven increasingly on-chain — permissionless, less reliance on any central service
  • Bring-your-own-device nodes: Raspberry Pi, weather stations, power monitors, geophones
  • Citizen science, school & maker deployments, local node maps

The credential

The Orchard Pass

Every Tree is bound to its owner by an Orchard Pass — an NFT on Chia that proves ownership and carries the Tree's on-chain identity. The Genesis Passes are minted and live; this is ORCH-0001, the very first.

View the Genesis Passes on MintGarden ↗

The token

$JUICE — a reward for real work.

$JUICE pays operators for running real-world sensing infrastructure, not for speculation. Fixed supply, single issuance, no inflation — the network earns it into circulation over time.

Token
$JUICE
Type
CAT
Network
Chia mainnet
Total supply
100,000,000
Issuance
Single
Asset ID  285164e6af80202d2b07fa3cc6ae47ff2906029365a83c50fcab25a56b937121
Verify it yourself on any Chia explorer or full-node RPC.
Track $JUICE on SpaceScan ↗

Build it with us

The whole point is to be forkable.

Read the code, plant a Tree, contribute a sensor driver, or fork the whole thing for your own DePIN. The Orchard started from experimentation, not a corporate plan — and it's all out in the open.

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