Independent Impact
A radically open platform for reporting, quantifying, and verifying human impact with transparency, community oversight, and verifiable technology.
Our Philosophy
Independent Impact balances openness with quality so participants can understand exactly what every token or verifiable credential represents.
Transparent, not prescriptive
Independent Impact is designed so users can clearly interpret every quantified outcome while choosing the metrics, assurance levels, and estimation approaches that meet their needs.
- Flexible impact metrics
- Clear disclosure of methodologies
- User-driven assurance requirements
Open but meritocratic
Participation is open to implementers, validators, verifiers, and methodology developers. Reputation, earned through quality contributions and peer evaluation, governs what actions each participant can take.
- Visible reputation for creators and reviewers
- Peer evaluation at every stage
- Incentives for continual quality improvements
Immutable yet accessible
Proven distributed technologies protect artefacts and transactions while making every action auditable. Users can interrogate projects, credentials, and impact claims in depth.
- Content-addressed artefact storage
- Distributed ledger journaling
- Queryable history of actions and controls
How it works: The project development journey
Independent Impact links transparent project documentation with peer validation and verifiable credentials.
Establish your identity
Log into the project developer portal and register with your email. We will create a Hedera Account. Hedera wallet login coming soon.
Document your project
Capture intentions, safeguards, and evidence using shared templates so peers can interrogate every claim.
- Project design documents
- Immutable artefact storage
- HCS event journaling
Earn peer validation
Route reviews to validators and verifiers whose reputation matches the assurance level you need.
- Reputation-aware assignments
- Paragraph-level feedback
- Cryptographically signed attestations
Issue verifiable outcomes
Publish transparent credentials and tokens that downstream partners can trust and audit.
- W3C verifiable credentials
- Jellyfish-powered recomputation
- Hedera Token Service integration
Roadmap
Independent Impact is under active development. We have built core capabilities and are expanding the platform to with additional features to support a indicator and methodology development build a community of impact creators.
Completed
Integration with Hedera Consensus Service
The Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) is at the core of everything that happens on Independent Impacts. All significant events on Independent Impacts is captured on HCS.
- User registrations
- Project submissions
- Validation & Verification
- Credential issuances
- Reputation updates
Completed
User registration and identity
Basic functionality for registering users and linking their Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) to their accounts is live on the project developer portal.
- Standards body
- Project developer
- Validator
- Verifier
Completed
Project Design Document (PDD) creation
Project developers can create and submit PDDs for peer validation directly in the project developer portal.
- Complete generic PDD template
Completed
Project Design Document (PDD) validation
PDD validation workflow for validator and project developer is available in the project developer portal.
- Paragraph-level review and approval
- Corrective action requests and resolution
- Forward action requests
- Final approval and projecy registration
In Progress
Reputation system
Reputation system that tracks and displays reputation scores for all participants.
- Indicators
- Methods
- Project developers
- Project participants
- Validators & verifiers
- Standards bodies
- Public display of reputation scores
In Progress
First mile data collection tools
Create tools for collecting verifiable data from the field
- Survey CTO plugin
- Mobile app toolkit
Completed
AI-powered impact browser
AI tools help users explore and understand impact data with natural language search and assisted explanations via the Impact Explorer.
- Natural language queries
- Contextual explanations
- Query generation
Planned
Indicators and metrics library
A library of impact indicators and metrics
- Standardised impact indicator format
- Standardised impact metrics format
- Comment and finalisation process
- Registry of finalised indicators and metrics
- Portal and tools for indicator and metric development
In Progress
Impact methodologies library
A library of impact methodologies by indicator is rolling out, with published R packages for large-scale ACM and small-scale AMS use cases.
- Standardised methodology format
- Comment and finalisation process
- Registry of finalised methodologies
- Portal and tools and methodology development
Planned
Integration with Learning Tokens
Hedera Learning Tokens will reward knowledge contributions and training milestones.
- Implement learning token specification for Hedera Token Service
- Build user toolkit
- Pilot learning-token incentives
Planned
Rapid implementation toolkit
Make community-based projects implementable with minimal technical inputs. Pre-packaged implementation monitoring and impact monitoring tools so community-level projects can get started quickly
- Integrate methodologies with data collection and reporting tools
- Training materials and support
- Implementation tracking dashboard
Planned
Public reporting platform
A public platform for exploring and reporting achieved verified impacts
- Search and filter by project / indicator / metric / geography etc.
- Project and portfolio level summaries
- Downloadable reports
Technical Architecture
Independent Impact combines decentralised identity, verifiable data, and distributed compute to safeguard integrity across the impact lifecycle.
Hedera Consensus Service
Event journaling on Hedera provides a tamper-evident record of submissions, evaluations, and verifications across the platform.
- Immutable event history
- Transparent sequencing of actions
- Low-latency consensus
W3C Decentralised Identifiers
DIDs anchor every participant’s identity, linking actions to accountable agents while keeping the system open to new entrants.
- Standards-based identifiers
- Interoperable agent onboarding
- Verifiable agent controls
W3C Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable credentials encode evaluations, validations, and impact claims so that downstream users can trust the provenance of every assertion.
- Cryptographically signed attestations
- Portable credentials
- Selective disclosure for relying parties
IPFS for Artefacts
Impact documentation lives in content-addressed storage, ensuring artefacts stay accessible and immutable long after issuance.
- Permanent artefact references
- Peer-to-peer distribution
- Integrity checking through hashes
Jellyfish Verifiable Compute
Deterministic verification pipelines executed with Jellyfish make quantitative assessments reproducible and auditable.
- Transparent calculation workflows
- Provenance for computational steps
- Extensible verification logic
Fluree Semantic Database
Fluree’s cryptographically secured, time-travelable graph keeps the platform’s knowledge base coherent while preserving historical context.
- Traceable data lineage
- Granular access controls
- Immutable version history
Hedera Token Service
Verified impacts can be tokenised, making it possible to transact on outcomes whose provenance and assurance are transparent to every buyer.
- Programmable impact tokens
- Reputation-aware issuance
- Integration with broader ecosystems