A private firm on Saturday expressed intention to clear and clean up the so-called “overly-polluted” Pasig River, free of charge. Filipino entrepreneur and environmentalist Mariano Jose Diaz Villafuerte IV, chief executive officer of Cypherodin Inc. and cryptocurrency Botcoin, said his firm is interested to clean up the 27-kilometer long Pasig River using blockchain distributed ledge platform (DLT). “We first came up with the idea of showcasing how blockchain technology can solve real world problems and clean up the environment specifically, using Boracay Island [a world famous tourist resort island in central Philippines] as an example. However, the government shut the island down in April, so we looked at the Pasig River instead as the next most important body of water in the country,” Villafuerte said in a statement.

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