Case Study: Boston Consulting Group curates and funds global SDG projects with ConsenSys' Impactio

Realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

Boston Consulting Group faced the challenge of closing the roughly $2.5 trillion funding gap needed to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and needed a more transparent, trustworthy way to connect funders, subject-matter experts, and early-stage project leaders. ConsenSys partnered to deliver Impactio — a blockchain-based project curation and funding platform (using a Token Curated Registry model on Ethereum/Kaleido) — to reduce search costs, increase accountability, and surface investable, high-impact projects.

ConsenSys implemented Impactio’s tokenized curation workflow so curators stake tokens to vet, endorse, or challenge projects and donors can fund vetted opportunities; the prototype ran on Ethereum’s Rinkeby and the live deployment used an Enterprise Ethereum network on Kaleido. In a seven-week pilot Impactio drew 100+ participants from 17 countries, 70 curators across 20+ disciplines, 34 projects submitted (30 endorsed, 21 challenged, 195 challenge votes) and 17 projects reached the Impactio Curated List; pilots also logged 250+ hours of curation, 500+ curation actions and 220+ curator–project interactions, and produced funded outcomes such as the Xinnani seaweed project.

Boston Consulting Group