Hyperstructures & the future of ZORA with Jacob.eth

Hyperstructures are entirely onchain, and are public goods which create a positive-sum ecosystem for any participants.

Hyperstructures can be simultaneously free forever to utilize and extremely valuable to own. This is possible because of their unstoppability. There is no cost to maintain and keep the protocol operational forever. Once deployed, it will work exactly as it’s designed with no degradation. For example, if the Uniswap team and website disappeared toda... See more

Hyperstructures are crypto protocols that can run for free and forever, without maintenance, interruption or intermediaries.

My intuition is that it will be very important for Zora and its peers to act as central galleries and marketplaces. So, perhaps we’ll find ourselves in another situation (there have been many) where the decentralized promise of the bl — ch — lures people onto a somewhat more traditional, centralized platform — albeit one with some interesting prope... See more

Horne believes that there should be a single hyperstructure for each financial and non-financial utility: exchanges (Uniswap), marketplaces, lending pools, options, domain names, registries, identity, curation, tags, reputation, emojis, read receipts, and more.