Retrospective Funding Using Hypercerts

Holke Brammer is a research scientist at Protocol Labs and founding member of Hypercerts Foundation. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.

• Hypercerts: https://hypercerts.org/

• Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai/

• Holke’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/holkeb

TOPICS

• 00:00 Intro

• 02:18 What are hypercerts

• 04:12 Origins of this work

• 06:47 Hypercerts vs impact certificates

• 08:30 Multi-dimensional impact

• 10:42 Holke’s background

• 16:30 Scaling retrospective funding

• 20:41 The three marketplace actors

• 22:45 Better incentive alignment

• 29:41 Enabling better risk-taking

• 33:54 Retrospective funding as a norm

• 41:19 Coordination across a plurality of approaches

• 45:37 Unintended consequences and potential downsides

• 51:10 Engaging with hypercerts

RESOURCES

• Certificate of Impact: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/certificate-of-impact

• Supermodular: https://supermodular.xyz/

• Raid Guild: https://www.raidguild.org/

• Green Pill interview with Holke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTxY5kAfHKc

• Goodhart’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

This interview took place during ETHDenver 2023: https://www.ethdenver.com