Michael Cooper The role of Impact Tokens to help address common social problems is partly dependent on the ability of Oracle providers to accurately measure the cumulative alleviation of the social problem. Any alleviation of the problem results in new benefits which define the Outcome State represented by the Impact…

“How can we incentivize data sharing in fragmented seafood supply chains that often begin (almost 90% of the time) in the developing world?” -Fishcoin Supply chains are networks, and when networks are managed via a token that incentivizes desired behavior and dis-incentivizes undesired behavior, that network has now become a…

The real value in these posts comes from the collaboration and feedback received from those working to bring blockchain technology into the social impact. This post is the result of a collaboration between Emergence, Fishcoin and others looking to advance token usage in an evidence driven manner. These actors were…

*This post is the second in a series on the potential use of blockchain tokens to achieve social impact by alleviating social problems. Reading the first installment helps to understand what a token is before reading this post which outlines how the successful use of tokens as implementation vehicles (used…

This is the first in a series of essays discussing the potential role of blockchain technology in social impact interventions. This initial essay is not a full explanation of the technical aspects and opportunity of tokenization for social impact, but it is a start and hopefully others can contribute to…