Second-look integrator note · passive recon only · unlisted · as of 2026-08-18

A leftover subdomain from your rebrand now redirects off Klima. A five-minute DNS tidy closes it.

EcoWealth already retires carbon through Klima's rail in production, so this is a second look, not a cold read: our first two notes (July 16 and July 26, 2026) covered klimaprotocol.com, carbonmark.com, and the relay itself. This one points at the domain named in Klima's own migration banner, klimadao.finance and app.klimadao.finance, and finds three things worth your team's attention, one of them today.

Read this first. Independent recon by EcoWealth Corporation, a courtesy note between an integrator and the protocol it depends on. Not requested by, produced with, reviewed by, or endorsed by Klima Protocol or KlimaDAO. Everything below comes from passive reads any browser performs: page loads, DNS lookups, TLS handshakes, and public HTTP responses, no login, no probing, no scanning, no state-changing calls, nothing sent to the flagged domain beyond what a browser sends automatically. Staged locally, noindex, not sent anywhere without explicit review.
A five-minute fix

base.klimadao.finance now redirects to an online gambling site

The domain that used to be Klima's Base-chain carbon retirement bridge, real, search-indexed, and referenced by name in "Retire carbon on BASE" search results, now issues a 301 redirect to rajakencang.com, an Indonesian online-gambling ("Toto Slot") brand. This is what our browser received when it loaded the URL a normal visitor would type or click, exactly as it would render for anyone else today.

Screenshot of base.klimadao.finance rendering an online gambling site, captured 2026-08-18

base.klimadao.finance, desktop 1366×900 @2x, captured 2026-08-18. Full repro (dig, curl, TLS certificate dates) in the brief.

This is a classic dangling-DNS dangling-subdomain issue: your CNAME still points at Vercel's edge, but nobody at Klima holds the Vercel project claim on that hostname anymore, so a third party added it as a custom domain on their own account and got a fresh TLS certificate issued for it on 2026-07-19. Vercel now serves their redirect under your name, with your padlock.

The fix: remove or repoint the DNS record for base.klimadao.finance (or reclaim the hostname inside your own Vercel dashboard, since a domain releases when its old project was deleted). One DNS change. No code, no migration, no coordination with a vendor required.

The other two, smaller

The legacy app throws visible errors
app.klimadao.finance banners people to the new app correctly, but its own RPC dependency is unreachable at the TLS layer right now, so the page it still serves errors in full view of anyone's console.
Retirement receipts can't prove themselves
A retirement URL and a fabricated one return the same generic page metadata server-side. Neither a search crawler nor a share-card generator nor a lightweight agent can tell them apart without running the app's JavaScript.
Credited first, in the brief
A careful, path-preserving migration off the old domain; an honest in-app banner; real Organization schema; a hand-authored robots.txt. The base-domain miss is the one place the otherwise-careful migration lapsed.
Nothing here touches the retirement mechanics EcoWealth's own agent depends on: the Retirement Aggregator on Base and the relay at v1.x402.klimalabs.com are untouched by any of the three findings, and our own on-chain retirement history (cited in the brief) proves they still work exactly as documented. The one item worth same-week attention is the domain redirect, because it is live, public, and pointed at someone else's site right now.

The tour

1 · Brief

The full findings, credit-first, curl-reproducible

Strengths credited generously, then the three findings in full: proof, cost, and the one-line fix for each. Plain-English bottom line up top.

Read the brief →
2 · Demo

The real flow, and the fix, shown not told

How EcoWealth's own agent retires and verifies carbon through Klima's rail today, next to a concept of what a self-proving retirement receipt would look like.

See the demo →
3 · Kit

Agent Kit: llms.txt, an agent card, MCP tools

Concept drafts an AI agent could use to retire or verify carbon through Klima, built on the same shape as EcoWealth's own live tools.

Open the kit →
Where this goes, if you want it to

We already run the rail your new strategy needs

Reading your own team's recent direction: retirements are the leading edge and value follows them; the priority is API, MCP, and x402 integrations that create recurring external carbon demand; and the intent is autonomous and programmatic, not discretionary and not OTC. That is a close description of what EcoWealth already runs in production against your rail today: a live x402 and MCP carbon-retirement path, agent-native, keyless through your relay at v1.x402.klimalabs.com, with a proof layer underneath every retirement.

The part that matters: we are not asking Klima for money. Your treasury already funds the carbon, that is your public-goods-fund plan. In this design we are the settlement rail and the proof layer your autonomous flywheel runs through, not the buyer. The party with the budget is meant to be you; our contribution is the infrastructure and the receipts.

The gap your own plan opens. The moment retirement is fully autonomous, the scarce thing stops being the carbon and becomes un-fakeable proof that the retirement happened and that the demand was real. A dashboard cannot prove that to an outside agent. That verification layer is the one thing we build that a protocol cannot easily build for itself.

Where the real demand is. The largest addressable market for carbon is not the sustainability crowd. It is the vast population of agents run by people who do not care about carbon but do care about legible profit. You convert them by making ecological action machine-legible and arbitrageable, which is the same property the three findings above are about, applied to the upside instead of the downside.

A concrete shape: a kVCM-appreciating asset. Pair every buy with an equal retirement, tell the story of the carbon retired and the ETH spent, and let the position appreciate sovereignly in kVCM, your own token, the way our own assets already appreciate in ETH and in BTC. It manufactures exactly the recurring external demand your protocol says it lives on. We would design it and prove it; the public-goods fund or the community seeds it, not us. (A placeholder concept, not a built product.)

kVCM (Klima) 0x00fBAC94Fec8D4089d3fe979F39454F48c71A65drelay v1.x402.klimalabs.com
Proof of pattern, not yield. This is not a pitch on paper: EcoWealth already runs the hydrex-to-kVCM leg today. Our Hydrex votes route 100% into the kVCM vault, and the weekly winnings swap to kVCM on a permalocked position, about $2.30 over two weeks as of 2026-08-18. That is dust, deliberately, and we would never call it yield. It matters only as a live demonstration that the buy-and-appreciate-in-kVCM loop already runs on our own rails, at a scale small enough to be honest about.

No ask beyond a conversation. As a first friendly benchmark of a shared standard: who makes more settlements this month, vealth or klima? This page is yours to keep either way.