Roadmap
Credit Ezra Weller, DAOstack
The Evolution of Impact Finance
Initiated: Q3 of 2022
- The RAZ Impact Databank powers outcome management organized by user, project, impact theme, initiative and framework
- Pilot projects launched for companies, nonprofit organizations and municipal initiatives managing impact-financial outcomes
- Working groups begin ranking individual contributions and project progress
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Features |
Decentralized Impact Identity NFTs enable access, contributor roles, anonymity, data privacy and ownership rights tracking across multiple projects |
Interconnected data management and interactions across multiple projects throughout the network |
The RAZ mobile application facilitates identity and credential management, project access, data rights tracking and trade, outcome verification, and connections
RAZ commerce features catalyze stakeholder access to impact-verified products, essential goods and services, education and healthcare across emerging markets and beyond |
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Blockchain |
$RAZ token generation
$RAZ capital deployment, utility, staking, collateral, bond and liquidity pool functionality development plan outlined |
The RAZ Network facilitates identity and credential management, data tracking, verification, access and trade |
Passwordless, permissionless, Web3 wallet login
NFT ownership verification Support for capital deployment in multiple cryptocurrencies |
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Tokenomics and Token Utility |
$RAZ Private Sale
RAZ DAO governance, voting, Impact Theme-driven group influence, and project-based impact-financial decision making enabled through the $RAZ token |
$RAZ Private Sale
Rewards for referrals of whitelisted network participants, multi-project commitment and outcomes accomplished $RAZ enables compliance, transparency and voting on project funding, team building and technical decisions |
$RAZ Private Sale
Wallet addresses holding $RAZ are associated with KYC-verified individual profiles and decentralized identifiers |
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Decentralized Impact Identity |
Working groups begin ranking individual contributions and project progress |
Reputation-based voting and governance enabled |
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Impact Finance |
$RAZ incentivizes stakeholders for impact-financial outcome realization |
The RAZ Network facilitates efficient project screening and due diligence ahead of funding being deployed
Investment, donation and grant deal-making automated |
RAZ Marketplace product distribution
USA
Serbia
Israel
European Union
Middle East
Africa
Asia-Pacific
Australia
August 2020
to July 2021
Research and Impact Fellowships
- RAZ Finance became a Certified B Corporation in August 2020.
- Impact Finance Fellows from investment, sustainability, impact, asset and mercantile trading backgrounds began creating a roadmap for RAZ as a data management solution and digital asset exchange. Angel investment launched the technical development of RAZ.
- Angel investment launched the technical development of RAZ.
July to
September 2021
Ideation and Prototype
- Technical Primer and Business Requirements developed
- Grant funding received from the Ocean Protocol Foundation to tokenize and trade data related to active ESG and sustainability outcome realization.
September to
December 2021
Proof of Concept
- The platform facilitates the customization of project dashboards, impact themes and initiatives alongside stakeholder engagement across the network.
- Onboarding of companies working to make progress according to the B Impact Assessment and become certified B Corporations: Maven Hemp, Shah Hemp, and Ramprate.
- Second round of grant funding received from the Ocean Protocol Foundation
- Foundation for dataset improvements and impact-financial integration. Datasets can be accessed on the Ocean Market as Impact in Action and Decentralized Impact | Finance | Evolved
- Initiation of $RAZ Finance tokenomics and token utility development.
- Reputation scores enable individual stakeholder influence on multiple projects across the network.
- Blockchain solutions identified and initial partnerships established.
- Funding secured for development throughout Q1 and Q2 of 2022.