what's Glow?

Glow is a blockchain protocol that incentivizes the construction and operation of solar farms worldwide using cryptocurrency rewards, adapting Bitcoin's proof-of-work model to proof-of-clean-energy. Solar farms produce verifiable energy and carbon credits, tracked transparently on-chain via AI, satellites, and on-site inspections. Users fund projects by purchasing Glow Miners (which yield GLW tokens over 100 weeks and provide cash to installers), delegating GLW to farms on the Launchpad, or participating in installer bounties. Revenue from energy sales and credits creates a flywheel: more solar built leads to greater output, enabling reinvestment and scaling clean energy faster than traditional subsidies. Glow V2 introduces GCTL (Glow Control), a mintable token priced at the square root of GLW's price in USDC, where mints fund a permanent endowment for GLW liquidity (half stablecoins, half GLW). Stakers direct weekly 175k GLW emissions to regions or projects, earning proportional carbon credits. Unstaking occurs gradually (1%/week) for stability. This empowers global communities to steer infrastructure, e.g., minting GCTL to prioritize solar in India or USA, combining economic incentives with measurable real-world impact.

Glow's V2 upgrade enables country-specific token reallocation.