WYDE, The Impact Exchange builds a new kind of funding rail: cause-specific tokens where trading fees automatically support verified nonprofits. $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger) live now

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December 19, 2025

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What if the most reliable source of charitable funding wasn’t a year-end campaign — but the same market activity that already moves trillions every day? Last week and yesterday, we featured our favorite new partners, WYDE The Impact Exchange, and their attempt to build a new kind of funding rail: cause-specific tokens where trading fees automatically support verified nonprofits.

Their first launch is $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger) live now on Coinbase.

Listen to the Disruptors For Good podcast interview below and read on to find out more about WYDE’s mission:

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Meet the founders turning market fees into impact

What if the most reliable source of charitable funding wasn’t a year-end campaign — but the same market activity that already moves trillions every day?

Last week and yesterday, we featured our favorite new partners, WYDE The Impact Exchange, and their attempt to build a new kind of funding rail: cause-specific tokens where trading fees automatically support verified nonprofits.

Their first launch is $EAT (WYDE: End Hunger) live now on Base.

Here’s the core mechanic: every trade generates fees, and 25% of those fees route directly to verified hunger-relief organizations — without asking traders to “donate” in the traditional sense.

The success over their first week shows this model has real potential:

A $1.5M Market Cap since the launch on December 10th, over 322 Meals Funded from Trading fees with the token held by over 50 traders.

All in all, they are already well on the way to hitting their primary goal of seeing 500 Meals funded before Christmas.

WYDE’s founders are not pitching charity

WYDE founders Martin Simms and Aaron Rafferty also appeared on the Disruptors for GOOD podcast this week, framing WYDE as something closer to a new kind of exchange infrastructure than a philanthropic product.

In the interview, Martin and Aaron laid out the real thesis: WYDE isn’t trying to compete with donors. It’s trying to redirect an existing fee stream into public-good outcomes, with on-chain transparency that makes funding flows auditable and measurable.

Listen To The Podcast Here:

Mission Based Token Unlocks

What makes this more than a headline is the structure.

80% of the supply is locked, and unlocks are tied to impact milestones — 100M, 250M, 500M, 750M, and 1B meals funded. It’s an unusually explicit bet that outcomes, not time, should be the scoreboard.

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