Socious is a decentralized ecosystem empowering everyone to create positive change. We help organizations and individuals to contribute to social and environmental causes. We offer four synergistic products that enable them to make a difference:
These products address the needs of both organizations and individuals in the impact sector.
For organizations, we facilitate fundraising, talent acquisition, and impact demonstration.
For individuals, we provide essential training, connect them with impact-focused jobs, offer opportunities to financially back social projects, and enable them to document their contributions—all of which lead to concrete benefits.
This comprehensive ecosystem not only empowers organizations and individuals to do good but also incentivizes them to continually improve their impact.
Our mission is to “give everyone a chance to make a difference”.
Our vision is to “build a world where anyone can lead a valued, purpose-driven life”.
Socious is a decentralized talent marketplace connecting mission-driven talent with meaningful work.
For individuals, pursuing a career in the impact sector traditionally means sacrificing professional and financial growth. Purpose-driven work has remained accessible only to those who can afford—and are willing—to make that sacrifice. While 94% of young people want to use their skills for good, only 10% manage to do so. Financial constraints, time limitations, and societal pressure create significant barriers for young people eager to drive positive change. Socious Work is changing this reality by eliminating these obstacles, making it easier for young professionals to join impact projects through our platform.
Through blockchain technology, Socious makes people's contributions to impact projects visible and rewards them appropriately. Our AI matches people with organizations based on skills, values, and mission alignment—no more endless searching. Your blockchain-verified credentials create instant trust, while smart contracts ensure secure, timely payments. This approach unlocks untapped potential to accelerate social and environmental impact.
For organizations, they struggle to find impact-focused talent. Organizations lose precious time searching for skilled, mission-aligned people. Socious Work makes it simple. Our AI-powered platform finds qualified candidates who share your values. You can say goodbye to lengthy background checks! Our blockchain verification ensures authentic credentials. Stop spending months on hiring. With our community referral system, you can find your perfect match in days. Plus, our efficient system means lower fees - so you can invest more in your mission.
Here at Socious, we take the phrase “no good deed goes unrewarded” literally. Using blockchain and AI technologies we are building a world where good people are consistently recognized for the contributions they make. Unlike credit ratings that record bad behaviors and limit the actions of certain people, Socious empowers people by making a permanent record of positive impact on the blockchain, to deliver value to those people that deserve it the most.
The value of recognizing good deeds is evident, but its implications go far beyond encouraging people to do well. With Socious’ “Impact Score”, we aim to solve a major problem in the impact sector. Impact organizations cannot find the talent they need and aspiring change-makers are unable to get the compensation they deserve. This human resources skills gap results in staffing shortages, technological ineptitude, and most of all, an inability to take action. And when people are determined to do good, they are expected to receive less. This creates an employment system that makes it difficult for impact seeking individuals to join impact projects. Talented people are forced to leave low-paying roles in the impact sector. It does not have to be this way.
We believe in a world where technologies and data can be leveraged to create an impact ecosystem where people are consistently recognized and rewarded for their efforts to make a positive difference. The world has enough brilliant people and ample resources to solve wicked problems such as climate change, poverty, and gender inequality. But these resources are allocated to for-profit projects instead of impact projects. The world’s best and brightest are working to make the rich richer instead of solving social and environmental problems, and who can blame them? Socious Work offers a new incentive system for the next generation of leaders, placing altruism and impact at the forefront. Through the platform, organizations can acquire and retain top talent in the impact ecosystem, allowing organizations to make a positive impact and increase revenue - the virtuous cycle continues.
Socious Verify is a blockchain-based certification platform empowering organizations with secure, verifiable digital credentials that revolutionize the way credentials are certified and verified.
Socious Wallet enables you to own and manage certifications powered by Identus (formerly known as Atala PRISM), a self-sovereign identity infrastructure.
This system has two revolutionary attributes: 1) certificates are impossible to forge and can be instantly verified on the blockchain, and 2) users can selectively disclose information.
Our tamper-proof verification solution revolutionizes how educational and work credentials are verified, making traditional background checks obsolete.
The platform creates a secure, blockchain-based ecosystem where educational institutions can issue digital credentials, and employers can issue work certificates that are instantly verifiable by future employers. This eliminates the time-consuming and expensive process of traditional background checks while ensuring complete authenticity.
Educational institutions face mounting challenges with credential fraud. Sophisticated counterfeit diplomas threaten institutional reputation and devalue legitimate graduates' achievements. Traditional certificate management also burdens institutions with high costs and inefficient processes that impact both staff and students.
Our innovative platform addresses these challenges by creating an immutable record of credentials on the blockchain. Through our intuitive interface, institutions can streamline their certification processes, significantly reducing administrative overhead while ensuring the highest level of security and data protection.
This comprehensive solution benefits all stakeholders in the ecosystem: educational institutions maintain their credibility, graduates can easily showcase verified credentials, and employers gain instant, reliable access to candidate verification. The result is a seamless, secure, and efficient credentialing system that serves the entire educational and professional community.
Socious Verify is a revolutionary age verification solution built on Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) technology, designed to combat underage drinking and smoking. Our mission is to protect young people while providing a comprehensive digital infrastructure that streamlines age verification, ensures user privacy, and maintains regulatory compliance.
The age-restricted product industry faces significant challenges with conventional verification methods that are inefficient, privacy-invasive, and costly. These outdated systems not only burden retailers with operational inefficiencies but also create opportunities for underage access - a critical social issue we are determined to solve. Our solution addresses these challenges while protecting customer privacy and reducing compliance costs.
Our platform serves a wide range of businesses in the age-restricted sector, including tobacco and alcohol manufacturers, retailers (both online and brick-and-mortar), and venues like bars and nightclubs. By providing these businesses with reliable, fast, and compliant age verification systems, we help them contribute to our mission of preventing underage access while maintaining smooth operations.
Through innovative SSI technology and selective disclosure protocols, our platform creates a secure verification system where only essential age-related information is shared. This technology ensures strict compliance while preserving user privacy. The seamless integration with existing point-of-sale systems enables real-time verification without disrupting business operations.
As the "Stripe for age verification," our platform is transforming how age-restricted industries handle verification while actively working to eliminate underage access to restricted products. We've created a solution that perfectly balances social responsibility, regulatory compliance, user privacy, and operational efficiency - establishing a new standard for ethical age verification in regulated industries.
We leverage this system as a powerful tool to combat greenwashing and impact washing - two significant challenges in the social impact sector. Through our advanced Impact Accounting system and secure blockchain data storage, we create an immutable record of companies' real-world impact, making it transparent and traceable. This means stakeholders can verify claims about social and environmental initiatives, ensuring accountability and preventing misleading representations of impact.
Our blockchain-based verification system serves as a single source of truth, documenting and validating impact metrics in real-time. For organizations, this creates a verifiable track record of their social and environmental contributions, helping them build trust with stakeholders while differentiating genuine impact initiatives from superficial claims.
For individuals, the system provides comprehensive Impact Score certificates that validate both monetary and time contributions to social and environmental causes. These certificates serve as blockchain-verified proof of an individual's commitment to positive change, which we will explore in detail in the next chapter. This transparent approach ensures that all contributions, whether financial investments or volunteer hours, are properly recognized and rewarded within our ecosystem.
In the pursuit of creating an effective and comprehensive impact measurement tool, Socious has conducted an extensive review of existing impact measurement systems. This literature review outlines the key systems studied and their influence on the development of Socious's proprietary "Impact Score" system.
Drawing from a broad spectrum of impact measurement systems, the Impact Score has been meticulously crafted as a holistic, versatile, and innovative tool for impact evaluation. Integrating best practices from established frameworks and incorporating innovative approaches to impact quantification and reporting, the Impact Score emerges as a comprehensive system designed to evaluate and communicate the social and environmental impact of organizations and individuals. Our ambition is to develop a pioneering algorithm that recognizes and records the positive actions of our users on the blockchain, motivating them to realize their full impact potential. This algorithm tracks a variety of behaviors, creating a distinctive Impact Score for each user. This score plays a crucial role in guiding decisions within our community, enhancing trust, and improving resource allocation within our impact ecosystem. Moreover, users are motivated to augment their Impact Score through tangible rewards, including periodic airdrops of SOCIO tokens and access to exclusive opportunities such as financial products and discounted services on our platform. In essence, our system not only measures impact effectively but also actively encourages and rewards positive contributions, fostering a culture of social responsibility and environmental stewardship.
Distributed ledger technology will bring transparency to the impact scoring process whilst simultaneously ensuring data privacy and efficiency. Decentralization allows users to control their own data without the need to depend on a centrally organized agency deciding their status based on subjective and obscure processes. People who might otherwise be bankless or ineligible for loans would demonstrate their creditworthiness through sustained good deeds, enabling them to access the resources they need to scale their impact. Another attractive feature of blockchain technology is the security that proof of stake (PoS) offers from hacks and data manipulation. Socious’ open-source and peer-to-peer platform will be subject to rigorous checks and audits allowing users to rest assured that they and their data are safe. To date, there have been numerous examples of hacking incidents, with upwards of 100 million Americans’ personal data being exposed. With the Socious Impact Score, this is a problem of the past.
The Socious Impact Score draws on existing impact measurement systems in its design, measuring both single and ongoing events. An amalgamation of on-chain and off-chain features will be automatically incorporated into the data layer to allow the score to be calculated efficiently and accurately. This score will be derived from a number of subcategories, each reflecting a different sphere of impact activities. By adjusting the weightings of these impact spheres, ranging from historical achievements to daily activities, we will be able to offer customized data solutions to fit our clients’ needs.
Our Impact Score is shaped by two primary data sources: resource contributions and impact results, the latter being strengthened through incorporating Impact-Weighted Accounts. Resource contributions include the time and money invested in impact projects. The value of time is calculated considering the nature of the work, the individual’s experience level, and location, with additional recognition for pro bono or discounted rate efforts. Financial contributions, such as donations and responsible investments, are also pivotal. These transactions are facilitated and recorded through Socious’ native app, with all data securely stored on-chain.
To measure impact results, we are adopting Impact-Weighted Accounts methodology us to accurately quantify the tangible impact of resource contributions. This includes achievements such as providing access to education, access to health services, reducing CO2 emissions, and more. By employing this dual-data-source approach, we can minimize risks, maximize opportunities, and achieve significant, long-lasting change.
Impact points celebrate your contributions to social causes through time or money. Here’s how to make a difference and rack up points:
Give Your Time
Your time is valuable—use it for good and earn impact points:
Invest Your Money
Your wallet can spark change too. Earn points with these moves:
Bonus Boost: Already making an impact elsewhere? Get a certificate as a verifiable credential, and Socious will reward your efforts with points.
By giving your time or money, you’re not just earning points—you’re powering real change. Dive in today and watch your impact soar!
The Impact Score is derived from the data layer explained above. The various activities and data points will be converted into Impact Points/Dollars, using our algorithm that offers multipliers based on the actual real world impact of each activity in question. For each user, the total amount of impact dollars that has been accrued will then be subjected to a number of additional adjustments, based on the users conduct, and then balanced to give an even distribution of scores across the ecosystem. In recognition of conventional credit systems, the final value will be adjusted to fit a scale ranging from 300 - 850, with higher ratings indicating a higher level of impact. These scores will then be displayed on the platform and made available through a number of channels to third parties such as ethical product vendors and lenders. The data will also be leveraged to gain insight into the community and to offer custom data products to our clients. Please see the details of the impact score calculation method here.
Socious connects impact organizations, investors, and changemakers who share a commitment to positive change. Through our products, users can launch projects, hire talent, support causes, and join a vibrant impact ecosystem. To drive engagement and reward participation, Socious launched the SOCIO token—a blockchain-based utility and governance token that will trade publicly and integrate seamlessly with the platform. The system will feature various incentives to promote impactful activities and drive widespread token adoption.
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