Papers, Articles, Presentations

Writings

• Feb 14, 2023, Whitepaper draft by @hypercerts: Hypercerts: A new primitive for impact funding systems (draft v0)
• Aug 24, 2022, Blogpost by @holkeb: Hypercerts: A new primitive for public goods funding
• Jun 2022, Tech report (draft) by @davidad: Hypercerts; an Interoperable Datalayer for Impact-Funding Mechanisms

Talks

Jun 24, 2022, Talk at Funding the Commons by @davidad: Hypercerts: on-chain primitives for impact markets

Jun 23, 2022, Conversation between @emiyazono and @owocki at GreenPill Podcast: Impact Certificates | Evan Miyazono, Head of Research at Protocol Labs | Green Pill #21

Mar 4, 2022, Talk at Funding the Commons by @davidad: Interoperable mechanisms for non-rival goods (Hypercerts)

Other resources

Overview of some previous writings on impact certificates, retrospective funding and impact markets:

• Christiano, Paul (2014) Certificates of impact, Rational Altruist, https://rationalaltruist.com/2014/11/15/certificates-of-impact/
• Christiano, Paul & Katja Grace (2015) The Impact Purchase, https://impactpurchase.org/why-certificates/
• Optimism & Buterin, Vitalik (2021) Retroactive Public Goods Funding, https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/retroactive-public-goods-funding-33c9b7d00f0c
• Cotton-Barratt, Owen (2021), Impact Certificates and Impact Markets, Funding the Commons November 2021, https://youtu.be/ZiDV56o5M7Q
• Drescher, Denis (2022) Towards Impact Markets, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7kqL4G5badqjskYQs/toward-impact-markets-1
• Ofer & Cotton-Barratt, Owen (2022) Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative projects, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/74rz7b8fztCsKotL6