Independent Impact

Roadmap

Track what Independent Impact delivers today and where we are heading next.

Active Capabilities & Roadmap

Active Capabilities

Completed milestones make it possible to onboard, design, validate, and explore impact projects today.

Completed

Integration with Hedera Consensus Service

All significant platform events are captured on HCS for tamper-evident sequencing and auditability.

User registrations
Project submissions
Validation & Verification
Credential issuances
Reputation updates

Completed

User registration and identity

Standards body
Project developer
Validator
Verifier

Completed

Project Design Document (PDD) creation

Create, revise, and submit PDDs for peer validation through the Project Development Portal.

Complete generic PDD template

Completed

Project Design Document (PDD) validation

Validator workflows with paragraph-level feedback and approval live in the Project Development Portal.

Paragraph-level review
Corrective action requests
Forward action requests
Final approval & registration

Completed

AI-powered impact browser

Natural-language search and assisted explanations help teams explore verified impact data via the Impact Explorer.

Natural language queries
Contextual explanations
Query generation

In Progress

Active projects that extend transparency, tooling, and learning incentives across the ecosystem.

Impact Workflows

Independent Impact operationalises transparent workflows for documenting projects, validating methodologies, and issuing verifiable credentials.

PDD validation

Structured submission, peer review, and approval of project design documents ensures projects enter the ecosystem with clear evidence requirements.

Reputation-aware routing

Tasks are assigned to validators and verifiers whose reputation demonstrates the right expertise and reliability.

Field data collection

Individuals close to project sites earn income by capturing first-mile evidence (e.g. photographs, site observations), with deliverables verified on-chain.

Verifiable compute

Quantitative assessments leverage Jellyfish to make calculations reproducible and auditable.

Transparent credentials

Outputs are issued as W3C Verifiable Credentials so stakeholders can interrogate provenance and assurance.

Technical Architecture

Independent Impact combines decentralised identity, verifiable data, and distributed compute to make impact accounting trustworthy and auditable.

Event journaling on Hedera

Every submission, evaluation, and verification step is immutably recorded using the Hedera Consensus Service, providing a tamper-evident timeline of actions.

Verifiable identities and attestations

W3C DIDs anchor agent identities while W3C Verifiable Credentials encode attestations that buyers and peers can independently verify.

Immutable artefact storage

Project documentation and evidentiary artefacts are stored on IPFS, ensuring they remain accessible and provably unaltered.

Reputation-aware tokenisation

The Hedera Token Service allows verified outcomes to be tokenised with clear links to the agents and controls responsible for their quality.

Architectural Principles

Independent Impact implements technologies that reinforce transparency and accountability at every layer of the impact lifecycle. The stack is intentionally modular so the platform can incorporate new methodologies, data sources, and assurance requirements without sacrificing integrity.

Hedera Consensus Service

Hedera Consensus Service captures an immutable, ordered log of platform events. This journal confirms when artefacts were submitted, who evaluated them, and what decisions were taken. It underpins dispute resolution by providing a shared timeline of actions.

Decentralised Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials

Participants manage verifiable digital identities using W3C Decentralised Identifiers. Evaluations, validations, and credentials issued through the platform are represented as W3C Verifiable Credentials, so any relying party can independently inspect provenance and assurance.

IPFS and Fluree for Data Integrity

Artefacts associated with impact claims are pinned to IPFS, giving each document a content-derived address that proves its integrity. Fluree provides a cryptographically secured, time-travelable semantic database, allowing users to query current and historical states of projects, agents, and methodologies.

Verifiable Compute with Jellyfish

Quantitative assessments often rely on complex calculations. Jellyfish executes these computations in a verifiable manner, producing reproducible outputs with clear provenance of the data and logic used.

Tokenisation Pathways

Once an impact claim has passed through peer review and verification, it can be tokenised via the Hedera Token Service. Tokenisation links the reputation of creators, validators, and verifiers to the resulting assets, giving buyers confidence in both the process and its outcomes.