PRIZM and CWT: Cryptocurrency as a Co-Funding Tool for the International Movement’s Peacebuilding Events

The international CWT movement used the PRIZM blockchain in community initiatives, the “Peace to the World!” campaign and charitable projects across several countries.

What is CWT

Change the World Together (CWT) is an international public movement bringing together people from different countries, cultures and faiths. Its participants live across Asia, Africa and Europe — in India, Indonesia, China, Türkiye and a number of other countries. The movement’s ideology is set out in the book “The Ideology of CWT” by board chairman Alexey Muratov and is built around the idea of freeing society from the dominance of global financial corporations, transitioning to a resource-oriented economy and developing blockchain technologies.

One of CWT’s key areas of activity, as stated in its ideology, is maintaining and strengthening international peace and security, developing cooperation between states, eliminating ethnic hatred, extremism and Nazism, and encouraging human creativity and constructive initiative.

In Russia, the movement attempted to obtain official status: in August 2016, the Russian Ministry of Justice registered it as a regional public movement. In 2023, however, the registration was annulled and the organisation was removed from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as an inactive legal entity. This does not make CWT an exclusively Russian project: the movement’s activists operate in dozens of countries, and its ideology was conceived as global from the outset.

PRIZM — the movement’s cryptocurrency

The PRIZM (PZM) cryptocurrency became a tool for pursuing CWT’s goals. It is a peer-to-peer blockchain network using the Proof of Stake algorithm, launched on 17 February 2017. CWT’s ideology describes it as an “advanced cryptocurrency” and “the only instrument currently capable of ensuring the achievement of the goal” — a transition from the dollar-based financial system to a crypto-economy.

PRIZM uses a paramining mechanism — the issuance of new coins in users’ wallets — which, according to its creators, is intended to decentralise distribution. The coin is positioned as the “first fair cryptocurrency”: a transparent, decentralised payment instrument with a minimum fee of 0.05% of the transfer amount, capped at 10 PRIZM, and transaction times of up to one minute.

The international reach of CWT and PRIZM

The movement actively promoted PRIZM outside Russia. In May 2017, a blockchain conference for local network leaders was held in India, where Alexey Muratov presented PRIZM. CWT representatives took part in blockchain conferences in Moscow, Kazakhstan and India. The movement’s coordinating councils brought together leaders from Indonesia and other Asian countries.

According to ForkLog, many similar projects from CIS countries enter markets in Africa and Asia, particularly China and India. PRIZM was no exception, and the movement’s international expansion proceeded alongside promotion of the cryptocurrency.

The “Peace to the World!” campaign as an example of co-funding

The clearest example of PRIZM being used to co-fund peacebuilding events was the “Peace to the World!” campaign, first held on 22 June 2018, Russia’s Day of Remembrance and Sorrow. It took the form of a motor rally: activists drove vehicles bearing PRIZM symbols through city streets, laid flowers at monuments to war heroes and protested against military aggression.

The campaign took place simultaneously in several countries — Russia, Türkiye, and countries in Asia and Africa. In Russian cities, the motor rallies ended at monuments to military glory; abroad, they concluded at embassies of the Russian Federation.

Charity and other campaigns

In addition to motor rallies, the PRIZM community organised charitable initiatives. One example was the “Bouquet of Kindness” campaign in Sochi for the start of the school year: schoolchildren drew bouquets instead of buying fresh flowers, and the money saved was donated to a charitable foundation. PRIZM representatives acted as sponsors, presenting participants with branded prizes and letters of appreciation.

PRIZM Is Now Trading on Biconomy

Spot trading in PRIZM (PZM) has started on Biconomy in the PZM/USDT pair. The listing has therefore taken place, and users of the platform can now buy and sell PZM through the exchange interface.

For PRIZM, this marks a new stage in the development of its infrastructure: an additional trading venue, a new channel for accessing liquidity, and an opportunity for Biconomy’s audience to explore the blockchain and its ecosystem independently.

At the same time, the listing is only the beginning. Further market performance will be shaped by actual trading volume, liquidity, buyer and seller activity, and the behavior of coin holders.

For those who want to use PRIZM not only as an exchange-traded asset but also interact directly with its blockchain, a dedicated wallet and PRIZM Core software are available. The official PRIZM website provides tools for creating and activating a wallet, while the PRIZM Core source code is published in an open GitHub repository.

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The P2P bot enables direct transactions between users. Before buying, independently check the exchange rate, the terms of the specific order, and the payment details. Never disclose your wallet’s private key.

The Biconomy listing moves PRIZM from waiting for a new trading event into an active market phase. The key indicators are now not announcements, but actual trading volumes, liquidity, and participant activity.

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