A software that sits quietly in the background on your computer as you go about your daily business – waiting to harness spare capacity to help those in need. When you stop working, Cudo Donate comes to life and turns unused computer power into cryptocurrency – digital money – for great causes.

Main sectors: Social Economy; Platform Economies & Service Sharing

Main applications: Software-as-a-Service; Loyalty Rewards

Established in: 2017

URL: https://www.cudodonate.com/

Organisation: Cudo Ventures Ltd

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – SME

Founders: Matt Hawkins; David Pedrini; Duncan Cook

Partners: AMD; War Child Canada; Childrens Air Ambulance; Team Rubicon UK; GenZs

Country: United Kingdom 

City: London

Stage of project: Pilot

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Ethereum

Other technologies: AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning

Whitepaper: https://www.cudodonate.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/CudoDonate_FundraisingInTheAgeofBlockchain.pdf; https://www.cudodonate.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/CudoDonate_ACharityGuideToCryptoMining.pdf

Github: https://github.com/CudoVentures

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CudoDonate

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.