Your Actions, Your Rewards, Your Planet: How the VeBetter Flywheel Works

Every coffee in a disposable cup you refuse, every second-hand item you buy, every kilometre you cycle — what if these choices did more than just feel good? With VeBetter, they put money in your pocket and give you a genuine say in building a greener future.

What Is VeBetter?

VeBetter is a Web3 platform built on VeChain’s energy-efficient blockchain. It connects everyday people with a growing catalogue of sustainability-focused apps — covering everything from eco-conscious shopping and electric vehicle use to recycling and carbon offsetting. The central idea is elegantly simple: verifiable real-world actions generate real financial rewards.

At its heart is a token flywheel — a self-reinforcing economic loop that turns your sustainable habits into tokens, those tokens into governance influence, and that influence into more rewards for the whole community. The bigger the wheel spins, the more value it creates for everyone involved.

The Two Tokens You Need to Know

B3TR — Your Reward Token

B3TR is the fuel of the VeBetter ecosystem. It’s capped at 1 billion tokens and distributed weekly to users who complete verifiable sustainable actions through participating apps — think logging a zero-waste grocery run, tracking an EV journey, or documenting a recycling drop-off. B3TR is your proof-of-impact: each token represents a real, recorded action that benefits the environment.

B3TR can be held, traded on exchanges, or — and this is where the flywheel starts spinning — converted into governance power.

VOT3 — Your Governance Token

When you convert B3TR into VOT3 (at a 1:1 rate), you don’t lose value — you gain influence. VOT3 gives you a vote on which sustainability apps receive funding from the weekly rewards pool. You literally decide where the ecosystem’s money goes next. And for participating in governance, you earn additional B3TR rewards. The loop closes.

The Flywheel: Step by Step

Here’s how the three-part cycle works in practice:

1: Do Something Sustainable

Use a participating app to log a real-world action — buy second-hand, cycle to work, recycle, reduce energy use. The app verifies your action on-chain.

2: Earn B3TR Tokens

Verified actions are rewarded with B3TR tokens from the weekly allocation pool. The more the community validates your app’s impact, the larger its share of rewards — and yours.

3: Convert to VOT3 & Vote

Lock your B3TR into VOT3 tokens. Cast weekly votes on which apps deserve funding. Earn bonus B3TR rewards simply for participating in governance. Then the cycle begins again.

The flywheel in one sentence:

Sustainable actions → B3TR rewards → VOT3 governance → more B3TR rewards → bigger ecosystem → more sustainable actions.

How You Actually Monetise Your Actions

The question most people ask first is: “Is this real money?” The answer is yes — with nuance. B3TR is a tradeable token listed on exchanges. When you accumulate B3TR through sustainable behaviour, you hold an asset whose value is tied to the health and growth of the VeBetter ecosystem.

There are three ways your actions create financial value:

• Earning & holding: Accumulate B3TR tokens and benefit if the ecosystem grows and demand for the token increases.

• Governance income: Convert B3TR to VOT3, vote weekly, and receive a share of the governance rewards pool (5% of weekly B3TR emissions).

• Trading: B3TR is freely tradeable. You can exchange it for other digital assets or fiat currency at any time.

Unlike loyalty points or carbon credits you never see again, B3TR tokens are yours. They live in your own wallet, you control them, and they move with you regardless of which app earned them.

The Impact Behind the Numbers

The flywheel isn’t just financial theory. VeBetter has already logged over 48 million verified actions across more than 5.2 million wallets and 50+ live applications. Those actions translate into measurable real-world outcomes: over 412,000 kg of plastic waste diverted, 9 MWh of energy saved, and 11 million litres of water conserved.

What makes this credible is the on-chain verification layer. Because actions are recorded on VeChain’s blockchain, every reward is backed by a documented, tamper-resistant claim. There’s no greenwashing: the community votes out apps that can’t prove genuine impact.

Ready to earn your first B3TR?

Pick one app from the VeBetter ecosystem and complete a single sustainable action this week. It doesn’t need to be dramatic — bring a reusable bag, log an EV trip, buy something second-hand. That one action earns you real tokens, proves your impact on-chain, and puts you on the path to genuine governance influence over one of the most compelling sustainability ecosystems in Web3.

▶ Start at vebetter.com

Your habits have value. It’s time to claim it.

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