How it works
The whole path of a $2 gift, and an honest list of what it cannot hide.
The digital rails: how $2 gets from your phone to a sewing table.
Traditional banking was built to say no to the people we fund. So we route around it. Here is the whole path, in order.
You give
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through Donorbox, or USDT straight from your own wallet.
HeartLiftGlobal wallet
Gifts pool in one treasury wallet. Its address is public, so anyone can watch money arrive and leave.
Stablecoin (USDT)
Funds travel as dollar-pegged USDT: across borders in minutes, without riding the kyat's collapse.
Local conversion
Trusted local exchange partners convert USDT to kyat at the market rate.
Collectives' mobile wallets
Kyat lands in KBZPay or WavePay, where collectives buy fabric, food and transit locally.
What these rails give us
Speed (minutes, not weeks). No dependence on international wires that get frozen. A treasury that anyone with a block explorer can audit.
What we refuse to pretend
USDT on a public blockchain is traceable, not encrypted. Mobile wallets in Myanmar are tied to ID-registered SIM cards and are monitored. These rails are pseudonymous, not invisible. So we publish totals, never recipients, and we plan for the worst case instead of the best one.
We would rather lose a donation than overpromise you privacy we can't guarantee.
Public ledger
Our treasury wallet address and our first ledger go live with our first transfer. Until then, nothing here is estimated or invented.
Two dollars moves.
Pick a level. It takes less time than reading this sentence twice.