# Impact certificates `kaal:entity:impact-certificates` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 11 claims that carry the concept tag `impact-certificates`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself. ## Every claim under this term 11 claims across 1 works, 2024 to 2024. **2024** - [4685567-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-002) [definitional/asserted] -- Kaal stipulates the load bearing definition of the paper: impact certificates are electronic tickets that can be sold to claim a project's impact, functioning analogously to a carbon credit. > Impact Certificates are "electronic tickets" that can be sold to claim a project's impact akin to a carbon credit. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-011) [mechanism/argued] -- In an impact certificate system the rules of the game are set by demand: altruists define what counts by deciding which minted certificates they are willing to pay for. > By deciding which certificates they are willing to pay for, altruists using the system define the rules of the 37 game. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-019) [design/argued] -- Firm commitment underwriting of impact certificate listings gives the project team and the investing community an assurance that the entire listing, including all certificate fractions, will be purchased provided the corresponding impact milestone deliverables are upvoted by the WEB3 expert community. > the project team and the investing community obtain assurances that the entire impact certificate listing will be purchased, including all fractions of impact certificates, if the respective impact milestone deliverables are upvoted by the respective WEB3 expert community. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-022) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Hypercerts, like other WEB3 optimization attempts for impact certificates, lack the required verification of impact inputs inside decentralized governance settings that are attack proof. > Like other optimization attempts, Hypercerts often lack the require verification of impact inputs in decentralized governance settings that are attack proof. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-026) [condition/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Impact 3.0 is bounded by market participants' purchasing choices: projects whose impact certificates find no purchasers after listing are less likely to proliferate or find long term commercial applications. > If market participants don't purchase impact certificates post-listing, those projects whose impact certificates do not find purchasers are less likely to proliferate and find commercial applications long-term. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-027) [predictive/speculative] -- Because Impact 3.0 growth depends on donor realization, willingness to run parallel tracks, standardization, critical mass of listings, funding sources and credential tracking, only a smaller subset of the philanthropy market will be attracted to impact certificate markets, and full establishment may take five to ten years. > Given these dependencies, a smaller subset of the philanthropy market will be attracted to impact certificate markets. It may take five to ten years for the impact certificate marketplace to fully establish itself and scale in impact donor circles. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-029) [normative/argued] -- Kaal adopts an indifference principle as the benchmark for a functioning impact certificate marketplace: a philanthropist should be indifferent between spending money to do a good deed and paying someone else to do it, provided the philanthropist receives the entire certificate for that deed. > in a perfect world of a functioning impact certificate marketplace, a philanthropist should be indifferent as to whether spending money to do a good deed or paying someone else to do it, provided the philanthropist gets the entire certificate for that good deed. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-032) [design/asserted] -- Impact certificates let businesses offset engagements that are non impact or publicly perceived as non impact, and Kaal gives the example of the tobacco industry investing in a lung cancer impact certificate to offset its contribution to lung cancer. > For example, the tobacco industry could invest in a lung cancer impact certificate to offset their contributions to lung cancer. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-034) [mechanism/argued] -- Greenwashing is curtailed in the impact certificate marketplace because any market participant can instantaneously invalidate nominal but not substantive impact stories published by certificate purchasers and by listed projects. > Through this transparency any form of nominal but not substantive impact stories published by impact certificate purchasers and impact certificate listing projects can be invalidated instantaneously by any market participant Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-037) [design/argued] -- For venture capital funds, an impact certificate listing performs a due diligence function, because the follow on investor inherits all the project performance data generated through the impact certificate marketplace. > Through the projects' success that is validated through the impact certificate, the venture capital follow-on investment benefits from all the project performance data that is generated through the impact certificate marketplace. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 - [4685567-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-038) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Impact certificates are an incomplete measure of expertise: they capture impact success in fungible economic terms without referring to the expertise actually developed by individual project community members or by the project as a collective, which is why WEB3 community software is needed for expertise tracking. > impact certificates are mostly a fungible measure of impact success in economic terms without a direct reference to the inherent expertise developed by the individual project community members and the project as a collective. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. 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