Meet the Founders of the WYDE Impact Exchange Turning Trading Fees Into Nonprofit Funding
In Episode 235 of Disruptors for GOOD, WYDE founders Martin Simms and Aaron Rafferty explain how their impact exchange turns trading activity into ongoing nonprofit funding, starting with hunger, on chain transparency, and community governance.
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For decades, nonprofits have relied on the same narrow funding playbook. Donations spike at year end. Grant cycles are slow and unpredictable. Teams spend enormous time fundraising instead of delivering impact.
Meanwhile, trillions of dollars move through global markets every day with no connection to social outcomes.
In Episode 235 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, we sat down with Martin Simms and Aaron Rafferty, co founders of WYDE Impact Exchange, to explore a bold alternative.
What if markets themselves could fund missions automatically.
What if trading activity generated real nonprofit revenue. And what if transparency and accountability were built directly into the system.
WYDE is not another crypto exchange chasing speculation.
It is an attempt to rewire how capital flows to real world problems, starting with hunger.
What WYDE Is and Why It Exists
At the highest level, WYDE is an impact exchange. It allows people to trade cause specific tokens, called Cause Coins, where a portion of every trade automatically funds verified nonprofit work.
This is not donation driven.
There are no fundraising campaigns.
No pledge drives. No one asking for a tax receipt.
Instead, WYDE redirects trading fees, the same fees that already exist in every financial market, toward social impact.
The platform is built using Wyoming DUNA law, which allows decentralized nonprofit associations to exist with legal clarity and limited liability. Each Cause Coin is its own nonprofit entity, governed by its token holders over time.