Russia's cryosphere spans 65% of national territory — containing up to 10 trillion base units of latent bio-capital frozen across geological epochs. Ancient microbial ecosystems. Preserved genetic archives. Irreplaceable thermodynamic states. For 1.8 million years, no standard existed to register any of it. That ends now.
Capital that is not recognised is capital that is surrendered. Russia holds the world's largest sovereign cryospheric endowment — and no standard exists for its classification, verification, or deployment. This is not a regulatory gap. It is a strategic vulnerability.
Every financial system ever built extracted value from the present. The Sovereign Bio-Clearing Protocol operates on a different premise: the most concentrated repository of biological intelligence on Earth has been preserved in Siberian permafrost for up to 1.8 million years. It is not oil. It is not gas. It is thermodynamic sovereignty — compressed, preserved, and now subject to Russian sovereign accounting through the Bio-Clearing Unit framework.
The doctrine that names this asset owns it. The protocol that registers it controls it. The institution that verifies it becomes the global standard authority. Russia has two to five years before others step into this space. PERMAFROST FUTURES is the instrument through which Russia acts first.
Standardised bio-thermodynamic survey protocols for priority permafrost zones. ОБР's 59 regional departments deploy across Western Siberia and the Lena River basin. Phase I: five priority zones, 2026–2030. The survey is the act of sovereign claim.
All bio-capital assessments submitted for independent verification by the Kurchatov Institute — Russia's premier state scientific authority. The Kurchatov seal is not a formality. It is the instrument that transforms a field assessment into a sovereign bio-capital claim.
Verified assets classified into five sovereign bio-capital asset classes with applicable Bio-Clearing Unit valuation. BCU is the sovereign accounting unit — denominated in Russian standard, not external currency. The standard defines value. The market does not.
Cleared assets enter the PERMAFROST FUTURES sovereign reserve ledger — the first sovereign bio-capital registry in the world operating under Russian legal jurisdiction. Deployable through sovereign-to-sovereign agreements or held as long-term state reserve. Phase III: ЦФА (Federal Law No. 259-FZ) multilateral framework.
Russia is a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The Nagoya Protocol grants sovereign Prior Informed Consent, Mutually Agreed Terms, and Benefit-Sharing rights over all biological genetic resources within national territory. The SBCP does not invent new rights. It operationalises rights Russia already holds — but has never exercised at scale.
The first sovereign act is already in motion. The standard precedes the instrument. The registry precedes the asset. The doctrine precedes the market. Everything that follows — Pan-Arctic framework, ЦФА instruments, civilisational bio-reserve — rests on the protocol declared here.
KRYONIS/ОБР survey protocols. Kurchatov-verified baseline inventories for five priority zones in Western Siberia and the Lena basin. Russia–China 90-day sovereign pilot. Phase I activation: 2026. This is the founding act. Everything else is built on this.
Pan-Arctic Bio-Capital Registry under Russian-defined standards. Bilateral sovereign bio-capital agreements with Arctic states. SBCP submitted to CBD/Nagoya bodies as model implementation. Russia becomes the architect of global cryospheric bio-capital doctrine — not its adopter.
BCU-denominated multilateral bio-capital arrangements under Federal Law No. 259-FZ. Full Russian federal jurisdiction. Central Bank oversight. No dependence on Western financial infrastructure. Tokenisation is a late-stage function — it serves the standard, not the reverse.
Russia does not need to liquidate its permafrost bio-capital. It needs to register it before others define what it is worth. Every year of inaction is a year the vocabulary, the metrics, and the valuation methodology are authored by someone else. The SBCP closes that window permanently.
Russia holds the largest sovereign biological reserve on Earth. It has the scientific infrastructure to verify it. The legal framework to govern it. The geopolitical interest to define the standard. The Sovereign Bio-Clearing Protocol is the instrument through which these existing strengths become registered sovereign capital. The window is open now.