| Agent |
Any person, organisation, or machine who has control over a self-sovereign digital identifier (DID), to transact in Internet of Impact networks |
| Alphabond |
Novel impact finance tool with risk-adjusted bonding curve used to provide dynamic risk assessment for funding outcome-based social impact projects. Alphabond Docs |
| Blockchain |
Decentralized, immutable transaction record secured by cryptography and consensus mechanisms. |
| Cell |
The base form of any type of organisation, which is represented by a digital identifier (DID); cyber-cellular organisation to coordinate the activities of agents. |
| Cell Node |
An autonomous, decentralised, sovereign data store and software agent which performs actions on behalf of one or more controller agents. Cell Node Config |
| Claim |
Observed state in the world, submitted by an agent. |
| Credential |
Issued to DIDs by Trust Seeds to create stateful trust graph; grants rights, access, or verifies as a trusted entity. |
| Cosmos |
The Internet of Blockchains, formed by networks built on the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint consensus engine, which are interconnected through the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol |
| Decentralised Identifier |
A W3C standard digital identifier |
| Delegator |
Person or entity who delegates tokens for staking and/or voting with a selected validator. |
| DID |
See Decentralised Identifier |
| DID Document (DDO) |
A set of data describing an Entity Node (the DID subject) in ixo protocol networks; stateful digital record as a collection of JSON-LD attributes and objects related to DID. |
| Hub |
Network of interconnected blockchains or devices. |
| IBC |
Interoperability protocol for communicating arbitrary data between arbitrary state machines. |
| Inter-blockchain Communication |
See IBC |
| Interchain Identifier |
A decentralised identifier (DID) which has been purposed to identify digital assets which are located within blockchain name-spaces |
| Impact Token |
Digital asset which represents interest in the impact economy and its impact claims. |
| ixo |
Name of the open-source project that is building the Internet of Impact. Not an acronym. |
| IXO |
The native utility token of the Internet of Impact Hub |
| Market Relayer |
Agent who cultivates, facilitates, and supports projects, activities, and actors within a regional impact market. |
| Oracle |
AI or human reporting agent attesting to state. |
| Precision Impact |
Defined by a set of 10 Precision Impact Functions: Proofing, Prediction, Personalisation, Prescription, Planning, Proposing, Prevention, Protection, Profiling, and Participation. |
| Precision Oracle |
Oracle that provides Precision Impact Functions (P-functions). |
| Proof |
Collected data that supports a claim. |
| Relayer |
Validator Node operators of the Impact Hub are referred to as Relayers. |
| Specification |
The data requirements needed to properly satisfy a valid claim. |
| State |
The observed, verifiable condition of the world. Or, the digital representation of this observed state recorded on blockchain as claim. |
| Token |
A medium of value. Digital asset representing a denominated unit of value or, in the case of a Non-Fungible Token, the representation of a real asset or claim. |
| Validator |
A computer server that validates blockchain transactions through peer-to-peer consensus mechanisms. |
| Validation |
The process of verifying the authenticity and the accuracy of a transaction by verifying cryptographic credentials and blockchain state. |
| Verification |
The process of evaluating the veracity of a claim. |
| Verified Claim |
Claim which has been verified by evaluation entities such as a Verification Agent, Auditor, or Arbitrator. |
| Wallet |
DID associated, encrypted, secured data store, such as ixo Keysafe, that holds an Agent's tokens and digital assets. |
| Zone |
ixo Protocol Networks may be independently configured into zones that have their own security, governance and economic mechanisms. |