The Impact Card is a shareable summary of a participant’s Buzz performance: rank, Impact Score, and key stats. It is a display and sharing asset, exportable in multiple formats.
It is a presentation layer rather than a mechanic. Nothing about an Impact Card changes what a participant earns; it renders standing that already exists in the ledger into something portable.
Exportability in multiple formats is what makes it useful outside the product. A card can go into a pitch, a profile, or a message thread without the recipient needing an account to interpret it.
The practical use is evidence of track record. A participant negotiating entry to a campaign, or a project assessing who to work with, has a compact summary to point at rather than a screenshot of a leaderboard.