Structure Without Capture
summary
Argues that decentralized groups fix the “tragedy of the responsibility commons” by delegating and revoking roles at the contract layer and shows a live system built over two years. Uses Hats Protocol — a factory of 1155-compatible NFTs that token-gate access (Guild, Collab.Land, Lit), grant multi-sig signing authority, snapshot voting weight, discretionary budgets and Superfluid pay streams. Gives concrete examples: grants committees, event teams, arbiters; V2 app is launched on desktop and the protocol is open source and DAO-intended.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Decentralized structure intro
- 1:04Why networks underperform
- 3:53Hierarchies vs networks
- 7:22Tragedy of responsibility
- 8:28Structure without capture
- 9:10Grants delegation example
- 12:20Event delegation example
- 14:04Dispute arbitration
- 15:28Hats protocol for structure
- 17:15Hats Protocol V2 launch
- 18:00Q&A
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