Video: How a Cause Lasts Forever: Endowment vs Cause Coin
How does a cause last forever? The old answer needs a billion-dollar pile of money. There's a new one. An endowment is how great institutions endure: a huge sum is invested, the institution spends only about four to five percent of the returns each year, the principal is preserved, and it lasts for generations. Genuinely powerful, but it takes a fortune to start, it's usually controlled by a board, and the public can't really see inside it. A cause coin reaches "forever" a different way. WYDE is the Impact Exchange where causes go public, and $EAT, for ending hunger, is the first cause on it. Instead of a giant upfront pile of money, the cause is funded by ongoing activity. Instead of a board, it's governed by its own community. And instead of opacity, it's fully verifiable, anyone can check it. An endowment makes a cause last with a fortune and a board. A cause coin makes it last with activity and a community, in the open. Forever used to need a fortune. Now it needs us. ▶ See a cause built to last: https://wyde.org
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