REGENERATIVE ECONOMY IN THE EXPONENTIAL ERA: INTEGRATING AI, WEB3, AND BLOCKCHAIN INTO REGENERATIVE BUSINESS MODELS

The regenerative economy represents a transformative paradigm that transcends traditional approaches of minimizing environmental impact, evolving toward systems oriented to the active restoration of natural and social ecosystems (Raworth, 2017; Fullerton, 2015). This shift is critically relevant in the context of the global climate crisis and growing socioeconomic inequalities (World Economic Forum, 2024). Emerging exponential technologies—artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, and blockchain—offer unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the transition toward decentralized economic structures based on transparency, distributed trust, and participatory governance (Schwab, 2016; Tapscott & Tapscott, 2016).Tokenization—the conversion of physical or digital assets into cryptographic tokens via blockchain—constitutes a systemic innovation enabling fractional ownership, full traceability, transactional automation, and decentralized governance (Buterin, 2014; Wood, 2014). This architecture generates value through the synergistic coordination between actors, structures, and value flows, offering increased operational efficiency, asset liquidity, active participation of token holders, and transactional transparency. A recent article by UNICEF Ventures explored the potential application of blockchain across its work in more than 190 countries, considering impact tokenization to boost donations and other applications (UNICEF, 2025).A significant gap currently persists in understanding how to strategically implement these convergent technologies to accelerate the transition toward regenerative economic ecosystems. This research addresses that gap by analyzing the transformative impact of artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, and blockchain on regenerative business models, examining emerging structural dynamics, identifying the environmental impacts of their organizational implementation, and developing a human-centered design framework that fosters more inclusive and equitable decentralized economic ecosystems.