Evaluating contributions to a project is a crucial and challenging task. Impact Certificates have been proposed as a basis to evaluate the impact of funding public goods. They were also suggested to measure contributions to a project and reflect its impact. Hypercerts are built by the Hypercerts Foundation and are used as certificates for donators through Gitcoin.
This article was initially drafted as a report on the trend of DeSci in Japan, specifically for a series of articles featured in DeSilo, an academic incubation program founded by Kotaro Okada. This is an English translation of one of those articles.