Hypercerts are living digital records of impactful work, built on the AT Protocol as open infrastructure. Projects record their work, evaluators add evidence and trust signals, and funders allocate capital using shared records. The same pattern applies across climate and regeneration, open-source software, research and development, and community programs. Hypercerts are developed by the Hypercerts Foundation alongside Ma Earth, GainForest, Protocol Labs, Octant, Silvi, Regen Foundation, and Funding the Commons.
The AI-Native, Open Context Layer
Collective Intelligence
for Funding Impact
Hypercerts create shared context—evidence, expert input, and community trust—for better resource allocation.
What we choose to fund
shapes the future we create.
The challenge
Upgrading How We Allocate Resources
Today’s impact funding systems are fragmented, opaque, and inefficient.
Decisions are made across disconnected platforms, committees, and juries—with little shared context about what was done, what worked, and what matters.
Collective work—like regenerative land, open-source software, and community infrastructure—remains consistently undervalued and underfunded.
What’s missing
A way to bring together evidence, feedback, and trust—creating shared context without enforcing a single worldview or set of values.
This enables new forms of decision-making—where different actors coordinate while applying their own judgment.
What is a hypercert
A Living Record of Work
That Can Be Funded
At its core, a hypercert captures a simple claim: what was done or is planned, by whom, when, and where. As evidence and feedback accumulate, it becomes a shared, evolving picture of the work and its value.
Record
Projects create structured records of their work—what was done or is planned—forming a shared foundation for evaluation and funding.
Evaluate
Domain experts, communities, and tools assess contributions. Evaluations accumulate over time, building a shared layer of trust.
Fund
Funders use shared records and evaluations to make better decisions. The resulting impact is attributed to contributors and funders.
Where we are headed
Decisions are no longer based on isolated reports. They are built on shared records—where evidence accumulates and trust is earned over time.
Open by design
Protocols, not platforms
Hypercerts are built on the AT Protocol as open, shared infrastructure—so that value, context, and trust are never locked into a single platform.
Portable records
Contributions, evaluations, and funding data belong to their creators—not to any single application. Records move with you.
Persistent identity
Reputation and attribution accumulate over time across applications, building trust that persists beyond any single interface.
Interoperable by default
Different tools, funders, and communities can read and build on the same shared data—without permission gates.
Use cases
Applicable across domains
The challenge of funding collective work exists everywhere—from regenerative land to open-source software, scientific research, and community programs.
Featured
Funding the Regeneration with Ma Earth
Ma Earth is building a crowdfunding platform for thousands of regenerative land projects—from reforestation and soil restoration to indigenous stewardship and community-led conservation.
Each project publishes its own shared record describing proposed or completed work. These records are owned by the projects themselves. Evaluators—scientists, local experts, communities—add observations, data, and trust signals over time.
Funders use this shared information to decide which projects to support. Over time, more evidence accumulates, attribution becomes clearer, and future funding decisions improve.
Roles & ownership
Projects
Publish records of planned or completed work
Project-owned records
Evaluators
Add evidence, observations, and trust signals
Evaluator-owned assessments
Funders
Allocate capital using shared records
Shared, reusable funding context
Benefits
- Less duplicated reporting
- More reusable evaluations
- Better funding decisions over time
- Proof of funded impact
Tools & Apps
Build with hypercerts
A complete toolkit for creating, exploring, and integrating hypercerts—whether you’re building applications, funding systems, or new coordination mechanisms.
Hyperscan
Explore the hypercert network—browse records, evaluations, data, and activity across the ecosystem.
hyperscan.dev →
Certified
Your portable impact profile—aggregating actions, evaluations, and credentials across applications.
certified.app →
Scaffold App
Get started →
Scaffold App
Reference app for building on hypercerts—start quickly with authentication, creation, and browsing.
Get started →
Hypercerts CLI
View on GitHub →
Hypercerts CLI
Create and manage hypercerts programmatically—automate workflows and integrate with your tools.
View on GitHub →
Agent API
hyperscan.dev/agents →
Agent API
Let AI agents query records, submit evaluations, and coordinate funding across the hypercerts network.
hyperscan.dev/agents →
Hyperindex
API reference →
Hyperindex
Query hypercert data across the network—power your application with real-time, structured, and composable data.
API reference →
The Hypercerts Collective
Built by a network, for a network
Hypercerts is not a product shipped by one organization—it is a protocol shaped by a growing ecosystem of builders, funders, evaluators, and researchers across multiple domains.
Hypercerts Foundation
Steward of the hypercerts protocol—coordinating development, research, and ecosystem growth.
Ma Earth
Regenerative land stewardship platform connecting landowners, funders, and evaluators through hypercerts.
GainForest
AI-powered conservation platform using hypercerts to track and verify biodiversity outcomes with satellite and sensor data.
Protocol Labs
Foundational research and early development of hypercerts as a new primitive for public goods funding.
Octant
Community-driven public goods funding platform exploring impact-weighted allocation using hypercert data.
Silvi
Reforestation tracking platform connecting tree planters with funders through verified planting data.
Regen Foundation
Advancing ecological regeneration through open infrastructure, community governance, and on-the-ground partnerships.
Funding the Commons
Global conference series and community at the intersection of public goods funding, open-source, and impact.
Get up to date
Articles, Podcasts, and Talks
The Moment is Ripe for Hypercerts
Hypercert on AT Protocol: Rewriting How We Recognize — and Reward — Value Creation
Rewiring the Commons: Hypercerts on AT Protocol
Kickstarting impact funding with hypercerts
A new protocol for funding and rewarding positive impact
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Let’s build this together
We’re especially interested in working with builders, funders, and domain experts shaping how impact is evaluated and funded.