# About Plantoids ### What is Plantoids? Plantoids is a Solana network-based web 3.0 platform that allows users to contribute to reducing the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere. It's a place for people to go to check on the progress of their Plantoid NFT, influence the growth of their digital garden, and compete with others to have the coolest, rarest, most impactful NFT out there. ### **What is *****a***** Plantoid?** A Plantoid is a dynamic NFT in the shape of a "living", digital plant collectible. Each Plantoid has unique genetics that dictate how they grow. As they grow over time, users can utilize "[The Lab](https://docs.plantoids.io/plantoids-nft/the-lab)" to periodically interact with their plants directly, enhancing and customizing its genetics. Plantoids will generate resources, from their dimension, over time that can be utilized to sustain, propagate, and further enhance your Plantoid collection. A Plantoid's growth is algorithmic, it is non-deterministic. This means that you can know what your plant looked like on any day in the past, but never exactly what it will look like tomorrow. ### **The best part? They capture 1000x more CO**₂ **than an average houseplant!** Our ambition is to become the plant factory of the Metaverse and to fill as much of the internet with CO₂-capturing crypto-plants as we can. Users can nurture and show them to their friends across games and social networks! {% hint style="info" %} [CO₂ removal](https://docs.plantoids.io/plantoids/going-carbon-negative) is achieved by reallocating a significant percentage of the revenue to purchase high quality carbon credits through only the most reputable registries like Gold Standard and Evergreen Carbon. {% endhint %} The team has experience across top universities (Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, Harvard), big tech (Whatsapp, Google, Facebook), start-ups (Clarity.ai) VC (Atomico, Alter Global), Investment Banks (J.P. Morgan) and consulting. The team also includes key contributors from successful NFT projects: Desolates, The Neighborhood, and Crossmint. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.plantoids.io/plantoids/about-plantoids.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.