Jul 30, 2023

Hyperstructures

Paolo Soleri's "hyperstructure" in ground-level view. The figure to the right is the Empire State Building at the same scale.


Hyperstructure Crypto protocols that can run for free and forever, without maintenance, interruption or intermediaries.

A truly permissionless, decentralised application creating positive sum environments for its users and entirely free. Where the value accrues at the user level.


They are generally public goods because if a protocol isn’t meant to have a business model (i.e how the definition says - the protocol fee has to be 0%). So Hyperstructure are generally public goods which are truly permissionless and decentralised that creates positive sum env for its users where the value accrues at the user level.


  • Hyperstructures take the form of protocols that run on blockchains. Something can be considered a hyperstructure if it is:



What isn’t a hyperstructure?

Wyvern protocol which is used by opensea isnt a hyperstructure because it maintains its offchain orders in a pvt owned db.

what are some other examples of not-hyperstructures?