Environmental, social, and governance credit management associated with unmined gold deposits

A system comprising:

• a memory to store instructions;
• and
• a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), proof of title and ownership rights to a verified gold deposit in a specified location, wherein the proof of title comprises environmental impact assessment documentation;
• receiving, via the GUI, resource verification documentation compliant with at least one regulatory standard corresponding to the verified gold deposit and documentation associated with one or more environmental preservation commitments;
• calculating, with the server computer, a total quantity of distributable tokens and associated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credits based on the resource verification documentation and environmental preservation commitments;
• generating standardized unit value for each distributed ledger token and associated ESG credits, wherein each distributed ledger token represents a fungible fraction of the verified gold deposit and the environmental preservation commitments;
• receiving, via the GUI, a digital signature from a titleholder confirming assignment of rights to the verified gold deposit and environmental preservation commitments corresponding to the calculated total quantity of distributable tokens and the ESG credits;
• issuing, based on the total quantity of distributable tokens, a quantity of distributed ledger tokens, wherein each distributed token incorporates a smart contract that specifies the standardized unit value, defines token holder rights, and identifies the environmental preservation commitments;
• recording the issuing of the quantity of the distributed ledger tokens and ESG credits in a distributed ledger maintained across a plurality of validating nodes;
• and
• transferring the quantity of the distributed ledger tokens to an electronic wallet associated with the titleholder.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI), proof of title and ownership rights to a verified gold deposit in a specified location, wherein the proof of title comprises environmental impact assessment documentation;
• receiving, via the GUI, resource verification documentation compliant with at least one regulatory standard corresponding to the verified gold deposit and documentation associated with one or more environmental preservation commitments;
• calculating, with the server computer, a total quantity of distributable tokens and associated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credits based on the resource verification documentation and environmental preservation commitments;
• generating standardized unit value for each distributed ledger token and associated ESG credits, wherein each distributed ledger token represents a fungible fraction of the verified gold deposit and the environmental preservation commitments;
• receiving, via the GUI, a digital signature from a titleholder confirming assignment of rights to the verified gold deposit and environmental preservation commitments corresponding to the calculated total quantity of distributable tokens and the ESG credits;
• issuing, based on the total quantity of distributable tokens, a quantity of distributed ledger tokens, wherein each distributed token incorporates a smart contract that specifies the standardized unit value, defines token holder rights, and identifies the environmental preservation commitments;
• recording the issuing of the quantity of the distributed ledger tokens and ESG credits in a distributed ledger maintained across a plurality of validating nodes;
• and
• transferring the quantity of the distributed ledger tokens to an electronic wallet associated with the titleholder.