Hypercerts: on-chain primitives for impact markets with David Dalrymple
Channel: Protocol Labs
Date: 2022-06-24

Speaker: David Dalrymple (aka davidad)

Abstract: This is a self-contained introduction to the concept of “hypercerts”, a highly versatile new approach to tracking the impact of contributors to nonrival goods and their prospective funders, & facilitating their interaction with mechanisms like retroactive public-goods funding. A hypercert is a kind of “impact certificate” (see https://youtu.be/viMd7y4bVK0) which represents a particular hypercubic region of a 6-dimensional “public goods space”. The hypercerts framework can support a wide diversity of approaches to impact evaluation, credit allocation, and funding styles, and enable clean interoperability between them (see https://youtu.be/acbBeGcevok).

This talk kicked off an active initiative now supported by Protocol Labs, Gitcoin, and others to implement and standardize the hypercerts protocol as an Ethereum smart contract.

Slides can be found here: http://github.com/protocol/hypercerts-docs/tree/main/static/pdf