Hyperstaker intends to use hypercerts as the vehicle to link prospective and retrospective funding, by making it easy for prospective funders and early contributors to get hypercerts in their hands, and critically — creating utility for the hypercerts through staking.

We enable the creation of hypercerts through enabling prospective donation to support projects. We are also advising, and collaborating with Armitage for a POC Sourcecred to Hypercert pipeline which we will dog food through the development of Hyperstaker.

Indeed donors to Hyperstaker themselves will be the first to be able to stake their hypercerts on the Hyperstaker project.

Staking will enable:

1. Creation of a quality signal for the project
2. Create reputation for signalers in order to improve quality of signal
3. Enable speculation of retrospective funding for the project, which gives value to hypercerts → bridging the funding gap.

Retro payouts are programatically distributed to staked hypercert owners, creating demand for hypercerts. Some will still choose to sell their hypercerts, and we believe that this will kickstart Hypercert economics.

We are also including the development of a Farcarster frame to enable donations to Hyperstaker projects.