NFT Smart Contract for Charitable Fund Transparency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for charitable donations lack transparency and accountability, as donors cannot verify how their funds are used by charities without relying on aggregated annual reports.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and smart contracts to track the use of funds by charities, where a charitable computer creates an NFT upon completion of specified charitable tasks, and donors receive the NFT as proof of the task's completion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional charitable donation methods are used with aggregated annual reports, then operational simplicity is maintained, but transparency and verification capability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces NFTs as intermediary tokens that mediate between charitable donations and verification. Each NFT represents a specific charitable task and its completion status, serving as a transparent record that donors can verify without complex systems. The NFT acts as a mediator that carries information about fund allocation and task completion, making the system transparent while maintaining relative simplicity through blockchain's inherent structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates digital copies of charitable tasks and their completion status in the form of NFTs. Instead of relying on aggregated annual reports, the system creates individualized token copies representing specific donations and corresponding tasks. These token copies provide verifiable proof of fund usage without requiring complex verification systems, as each NFT contains embedded information about the charitable task and its completion.
2Reliability
If donors want to verify fund usage directly, then transparency is improved, but the complexity of verification processes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service verification through NFTs that automatically encode charitable task completion information. Donors can verify fund usage by checking the NFT status on the blockchain without requiring manual verification processes. The system serves itself by having the charitable organization upload completion proofs to the blockchain, which automatically updates NFT statuses, allowing donors to verify independently and easily.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback loop where charitable task completion is recorded on the blockchain and reflected in NFT statuses. This feedback mechanism provides real-time verification information to donors, enhancing reliability. The feedback is automated through smart contracts that trigger when completion proofs are uploaded, making verification easy while maintaining high reliability through continuous, transparent updates.
3Loss of information
If smart contracts and NFTs are implemented to track charitable tasks, then transparency and verification are improved, but device and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the NFT system universal and multi-functional to justify the increased complexity. The same NFT infrastructure serves multiple purposes: tracking donation allocation, verifying task completion, enabling donor verification, and facilitating charitable organization accountability. This multi-functionality maximizes the value derived from the blockchain system, making the complexity worthwhile by providing comprehensive traceability and verification across all charitable operations.
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AI summary
A method includes: generating, using input received at a corresponding interface, a smart contract, the smart contract being configured to define, for at least one party of the smart contract, obligations for performing one or more tasks; generating, in response to receiving a first data object indicating competition of a corresponding task of the one or more tasks, at least one non-fungible token; receiving a second data object indicating that an obligation associated with the corresponding task has been performed by the at least one party of the smart contract; and transmitting, based on the second data object, the at least one non-fungible token to a computing device associated with the at least one party of the smart contract.