 From New York, it's theCUBE, covering Blockchain Week. Now, here's John Furrier. Hello everyone, welcome back to theCUBE coverage here on the ground here in New York City for Consensus 2018, sold out event. This is the premier show for the crypto blockchain world. It's part of Blockchain Week, New York City, hashtag Blockchain Week, NY for New York. A lot of events going on, everyone's here, a lot of breaking news. I'm here with CUBE alumni, Dan Bates, Impact PPA was on with us in our show in Puerto Rico at Coin Agenda. Dan, great to see you, thanks for coming in. Thanks, John, glad to be here. So, you got some hard news, tell us a little bit about your conversation we had about a couple of weeks ago in Puerto Rico. You got a great mission, renewable energy, you got a token. You've been busy, you've got a concrete deal. You're doing business. You're not just saying it, you're doing it. Yeah, shockingly not. Take a minute, what's the hard news? All right, so we're really proud to announce today that we signed a deal with the Indian government, which is essentially going to lift 50 million people out of poverty, women. How they're going to do that is they're going to help restart their textile industry. It's called Harik Kadi. It's an old craft of India spinning, cotton into really high quality fabric. What they're going to do is they're going to put an energy efficient loom in a woman's home. It's going to be powered by our technology and the whole process, all supply chain and payment will be managed by our token. Take a minute real quick to explain the technology. I know it's recycling, we've done it before, but for this first, while we're going to get context for this big news, what's, real quickly, what do you guys do? All right, so we install renewable energy systems on rooftops. In this case, it'll be a rooftop. In many cases, it's large micro grid. So we use wind and solar technology to drive to batteries. And then it will allow people to pay for power as needed or pay as you go model. Very much like what M-Pesa does in Africa. We decentralize electricity. Decentralize M-Pesa for electricity. You're token economics utility, great thing. By the way, state of California, where I live, just mandating all new construction, have solar panels. Not sure they're going to tokenize it. They might be getting it all wrong. But you're doing an amazing mission, great technology. But I'm amazed by the real deals you're doing. You got a P.O. in hand, real business, signed, sealed and delivered. What is it? How much? What's going on? This is big news. Yeah, the purchase order that we have is going to represent one quarter of 1% of this project. It's designed to put 125,000 women to work. I can tell you the number has a lot of zeros on it. So there's real cash on the barrel. This is a nine figure, that's right. This is a nine figure purchase order that we have out of them. It's a big deal. 100 million plus. Yeah, 100 million plus. Just as a P.O.C. Just on the P.O.C., yeah. What we're going to be doing is we're setting this deal up now. End of June, early July, we will be doing the inauguration on the first textile facility in Kahana, which is a city in India. And Prime Minister Modi is slated to cut the ribbon to set this project in motion. His goal and the minister of small and medium enterprises, Minister Singh, whom I met with a couple of weeks ago, they are committed to bringing 50 million people out of poverty. This is really high impact, in my opinion, pun intended. You got to impact PPA. You got a mission-driven organization, real problem. Growing middle class, by the way, is coming fast and furious. You're connecting energy with token economics, real monies on the table, real impact to people's lives with the democratization. In this case, it's caught, but they couldn't apply to any other thing. It's just one example. That's right. This is the largest, in my view, from my vantage point, this deal alone, the pilot actually, that quarter of 1%, is the largest commercial blockchain project in the world. I can't see if anything else that's even close right now. The claim has been made, the largest commercial blockchain deal in the world, done by Dan Bates, Impact PPA. Congratulations, great stuff. Great to have you on theCUBE. Thank you, Don. We want to ask you now shift gears to the event. You were out late last night, networking, celebrating in success, doing more business. What are you doing here? Obviously, you're not done. It's the beginning of a big deal. There's only one deal. What are the things you got going on? We got projects, so we just signed a partnership with Earth Day Network. They're responsible for launching Earth Day 48 years ago. We've got a project with them 50 by 50. We're going to do 50 installations around the world with our partnership by their 20th, or their 50th anniversary in 2020. We're here talking to protocols. We're here talking to strategic partners at Consensus, and it's an amazing show. The energy around here is just unbelievable. You know I love about your project, and you know what we've talked before, but for the folks watching, you combine a mission-driven, high-need deal, electricity with technology. I mean, if I'm a young person, I want to be in this business. How are you onboarding people? You guys are hiring. What kind of people are you hiring? Well, of course we're looking for developers to help us with the token piece of it, right? The blockchain piece. We're also looking for guys who can help us get this thing to scale. That's going to be really critical, so we're talking to a whole bunch of guys around protocols to see who can bring onboard, in this case, 125,000 people like tomorrow. We're also looking for energy guys, engineering guys, because we've got projects all over the world. Don't forget, we're still doing those 42 cities in Haiti. Microgrids all up and down the west coast of Haiti to help these people lift themselves out of darkness. We do that too. Dan, congratulations. You guys doing great work. Proud to know you, and I really believe in what you're doing. Thanks for doing it. Appreciate it. It's the Cube coverage here in New York City. Big news, the largest commercial blockchain deal that we know of that we've seen. If there's others out there, come challenge that and let's see it. Real business being done and Bates Impact PPA Cube coverage here in New York at Consensus Blockchain Week. We'll be back with more. Thanks for watching.