Roadmap

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

Active Capabilities & Roadmap

Roadmap

Independent Impact is under active development. We have built core capabilities and are expanding the platform 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

In Progress

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 ongoing 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

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 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

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.