Hypercerts on ATProto: Collective Funding, Evaluation, and Ownership as Social Data

This talk introduces hypercerts as a primitive for collective funding. It shows how activities, evidence, and plural evaluations can be published as durable records without relying on centralized platforms or single metrics. Attendees will learn how ATProto’s identity, record, and graph model enables new allocation mechanisms in which information production is endogenous and reusable across applications. The session connects protocol architecture with real-world funding workflows, offering concrete patterns others can adapt for funding public goods and collective action.