The Regeneration Will Be Funded Enabling Impact Funding Networks - Holke Brammer (Hypercerts)
Nov 14, 2025
Holke Brammer, founder of the Hypercerts Foundation, dives into the revolutionary concept of digital impact certificates designed to align funding with societal values. He discusses how current funding systems fail to reflect what we truly value and introduces retroactive funding to shift behavior for better outcomes. Holke outlines the importance of interoperable infrastructures for diverse funding needs and emphasizes the role of AI in demanding verifiable data. Their talk highlights the potential for decentralized protocols to transform funding, urging collaboration in building a new paradigm.
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Funding Misses What Society Values
- Societies currently misalign financial flows with what communities actually value, like nature, open source, and journalism.
- Hypercerts aims to make value visible and redirect funding toward those proven impactful activities.
Origin Story At Protocol Labs
- Holke described joining Protocol Labs and encountering early impact certificate research led by David.
- That work inspired the Hypercerts idea of retroactive funding via digital impact certificates.
Retroactive Funding Enables Risk-Taking
- Retroactive funding rewards proven past impact so people can pursue public-good work entrepreneurially.
- This reduces reliance on slow grant bureaucracy and creates predictable incentives to do impactful work.