Roadmap
Credit Ezra Weller, DAOstack
The Future of Impact Finance
Q4 2021
- Development and launch of a project data management and stakeholder engagement network
- Outreach to aligned contributors
- Commerce features integrated
- Global and crypto payment processing
- Reputation scores enable individual stakeholder influence on projects
- Blockchain solutions identified and initial partnerships established
- $RAZ tokenomics and utility developed
- Due diligence enabled for pods deploying capital and managing funding allocation
Q1 2022
- $RAZ private sale and initial community release
- Individuals and Pods can start earning $RAZ by engaging with projects,referring active participants, making conscious purchases and supporting initiatives
- Verification events and proof points recorded on a blockchain ledger
- Off-chain data securely stored through decentralized solutions
- Community and shop mobile app launched
- Project Owners can list on RAZ to qualify for investment, loans and grants
- Pilot NFT market launch deploys sales revenue to impact-verified projects
- RAZ tracks capital deployment decisions and integrated impact-financial outcomes that result from NFT sales
Q2 2022
- Financial services regulatory requirements met
- ICO: Initial Coin Offering
- Reputation-based voting and governance enabled through smart contracts
- On a network and pod level, governance frameworks influence verification standards, calls for proposals and treasury fund allocation
- Project, company and product certification program developed
- RAZ certification facilitates platform adaptation to industry-specific applications for product trade
- Oracle solutions are integrated to facilitate efficient project screening and due diligence ahead of funding being deployed
Q3 2022
- Reputation scores become digital assets owned by individuals, pods and companies
- Impact-verified products can be purchased with $RAZ
- RAZ wallet enables swaps of $RAZ and partner tokens to community currencies investment, support and donation to impact-verified projects
- RAZ launches a cross-chain impact-linked NFT market
- Integrated reporting correlates capital allocation to economic, social and environmental outcomes, alongside financial return
Q4 of 2022 and Our Impact
- RAZ becomes a decentralized stakeholder engagement and impact verification network
- Network and mobile app launch facilitates cross-project collaboration
- The RAZ shop and wallet catalyze stakeholder access to impact-verified products, essential goods and services, education and healthcare across emerging markets and beyond
- App, services and exchange support for capital deployment in multiple cryptocurrencies
- $RAZ exchange listing
RAZ Marketplace product distribution

USA
Serbia
Israel
European Union
Middle East
Africa
Asia-Pacific
Australia
RAZ Commerce
The RAZ network identifies mission-driven companies and founders that are realizing genuine positive outcomes.

August 2020
to July 2021
Research and Impact Fellowships
- Roshem Impact 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
- Launch of a collaborative platform that offers custom project dashboards, impact themes and initiatives alongside stakeholder engagement.
- 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 PHEORC-5 and Decentralized Impact | Finance | Evolved DETORC-97
- Initiation of $RAZ Finance token utility development.
- Network and governance platform developed and launched.
- 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 of 2022.