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  What Is Hyperstructures?

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Horne is a co-founder of crypto startup Zora. He was one of the core developers of the popular stablecoin USDC at Coinbase.

 

His blog is excellent and worthy of a follow.

 

So, what is a hyperstructure?

 

According to Horne, it’s a crypto protocol that can run for free and forever, without maintenance, interruption or intermediaries.

 

And, says Horne, it has these specific characteristics:

 

Unstoppable: the protocol cannot be stopped by anyone. It runs for as long as the underlying blockchain exists.

 

(Uniswap, one of the most popular Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) in crypto, is a good example. The Uniswap team and website could disappear today, but the protocol will run in perpetuity. )

 

Free: there is a 0% protocol wide fee and runs exactly at network/transaction fee cost.

 

Valuable: accrues value which is accessible and “exitable” by the owners.

 

Expansive: there are built-in incentives for participants in the protocol. They incent value creation and make value extraction cost-prohibitive.

 

(Uniswap’s Liquidity Provider (LP) fee is a good example. LP fees incentivize participants to provide the key resource to the protocol — liquidity. This fee is paid to anyone providing liquidity, not to Uniswap.)

 

Permissionless: universally accessible and censorship resistant. Builders and users cannot be deplatformed.

 

Positive sum: it creates a win-win environment for competitors who use the same infrastructure.

 

Credibly neutral: the protocol is user-agnostic.

“Hyperstructures,” Horne writes, “treat every participant fairly, to the extent that it’s possible to treat people fairly in a world where everyone’s capabilities and needs are so different.”

 

As a result of being free, expansive, unstoppable, permissionless and credibly neutral—Hyperstructures create a positive sum environment.

 

This means you can have an ecosystem of potentially competitive participants using the same piece of infrastructure to the net benefit of everyone.

 

Consider, if just a small percentage of our key institutions were to adopt such an infrastructure, it would be a paradigm shift so large it would eclipse all technological revolutions before it.

 

We would go from institutions based on:

 

→ Permissions

 

→ Mutability/Censorship

 

→ Gated Access/Walled Gardens

 

→ Extractive

 

To:

 

→ Permissionless

 

→ Unstoppable

 

→ Public

 

→ Free

 

Hyperstructures are built for the Space Age. Some semblance of this embedded in our dominant institutions would be a best-case scenario.

 

And perhaps it’s not as “pie-in-the-sky” as people think.

 

[Ed. note: Opportunities abound in Web3. But only a few game-changing protocols will gain mass adoption. One of the best ways to play is infrastructure — the protocols necessary for Web3’s growth. – Chris C.


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