
Hats Modules: A New Era for Programmable Organizations
TL;DRHats Modules are programmable extensions for rolesModules can be connected to hats to expand their functionality, such as automatic granting/revocation and activation/deactivation based on specific conditionsAny builder can create their own module, plug it into their own hats tree permissionlessly, and even make it available in any app that supports the Hats Modules RegistryAny app can also tap into the Hats Modules infrastructure to offer these same module options to their end-usersThe ...

Structure Without Capture
How we can delegate roles and authorities to get things done without recreating the entrenched power structures of traditional organizations The content of this post was originally presented by @davehrlichman as a talk at ETHDenver 2023, linked here. Published with many thanks to @spengrah and @nintnick for their contributions and valuable feedback that greatly improved this talk.Getting Things Done in Non-Hierarchical OrganizationsDAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) could be amazin...

Bring Your Roles Onchain
The DAO-native way of structuring your organizationSincere thanks to the many people who have greatly influenced our thinking over the years leading to the concepts in this post, and a special tip of the hat to those who provided specific feedback on the text found below, including Aaron Soskin, BPetes, Brennan Mulligan, Jon Hillis, moreReese, Richie Bonilla, Zakku, and Zayi. In the search for more fair and fluid forms of coordination, DAOs have rejected the centralized power structures of tr...
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Hats Modules: A New Era for Programmable Organizations
TL;DRHats Modules are programmable extensions for rolesModules can be connected to hats to expand their functionality, such as automatic granting/revocation and activation/deactivation based on specific conditionsAny builder can create their own module, plug it into their own hats tree permissionlessly, and even make it available in any app that supports the Hats Modules RegistryAny app can also tap into the Hats Modules infrastructure to offer these same module options to their end-usersThe ...

Structure Without Capture
How we can delegate roles and authorities to get things done without recreating the entrenched power structures of traditional organizations The content of this post was originally presented by @davehrlichman as a talk at ETHDenver 2023, linked here. Published with many thanks to @spengrah and @nintnick for their contributions and valuable feedback that greatly improved this talk.Getting Things Done in Non-Hierarchical OrganizationsDAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) could be amazin...

Bring Your Roles Onchain
The DAO-native way of structuring your organizationSincere thanks to the many people who have greatly influenced our thinking over the years leading to the concepts in this post, and a special tip of the hat to those who provided specific feedback on the text found below, including Aaron Soskin, BPetes, Brennan Mulligan, Jon Hillis, moreReese, Richie Bonilla, Zakku, and Zayi. In the search for more fair and fluid forms of coordination, DAOs have rejected the centralized power structures of tr...
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There are so many incredible composable tools for collectively managing an organization. We're living it in Hats protoDAO, composing DAOhaus, Safe, Sobol, Quests, Splits, Coordinape, DeForm, CharmVerse, Collab.Land, and Guild into an all-star suite of tools with Hats tying it all together.
Here’s how 👇
Hats protoDAO governance runs through DAOHaus and Moloch v3 contracts.
Hats Contributors earn protoRep based on their contributions. Once they put on a Steward hat, their protoRep converts into protoVotes to govern the protoDAO commons.

Hats protoDAO uses hat-gated Safe multisigs to collectively manage its resources.
Revocable signing authority is delegated to individuals & teams using Hats to ensure the multisigs are ultimately controlled by the protoDAO as a whole.

Meanwhile, Sobol's Hats Composer app makes it easy for protoDAO members to connect their Hats Protocol hats, Safe multisigs, and DAOhaus DAOs together into a unified onchain governance system.

Hats protoDAO uses Quests and Splits as the primary tools for tracking contributions.
Contributors use Quests to log their contributions, which are then linked to the Hats Protocol Quest and other relevant Quests to create a network graph of contributions.

Within each Quest, contributors add a Splits address to split up the protoRep awarded to the contribution among themselves.
Splits + Quests creates a hyperstructure of contributions and reputation that will span the life of the project (and beyond).

Hats protoDAO uses hat-gated Coordinape circles to intersubjectively allocate protoRep based on a contribution's impact, using GIVE as a voting mechanism.
Each node in a Coordinape circle is a contribution identified by Splits address, plus a link to its Quest for details.

DeForm handles all the protoDAO's information-gathering needs.
By hat-gating our DeForms using its web3 capabilities, we ensure only the right hat-wearers (e.g., Hats Community Members) can access and submit the forms meant for them.

CharmVerse is the go-to information repository and wiki for Hats protoDAO.
CharmVerse pages are hat-gated with nuanced read/write/admin permissions: Community Hat-wearers can read & comment, Contributors can add new pages, and only Stewards can delete pages.

Hats protoDAO uses Collab.Land to hat-gate access into the protoDAO's Telegram channels.
The moment someone loses their hat, they're automatically kicked from the appropriate TG group by the Collab.Land bot.

When we need to share a private Google doc, sheet, or slides only with Community members, we hat-gate it with Guild.
Guild makes it easy to set read/comment/write permissions for our docs so only the right hat-wearers have the right permissions at any time.

Hats protoDAO uses Hats (of course!) to:
manage access to the tools above
automate onboarding, promotion & offboarding
give people an onchain embodiment of their roles
save our protoDAO coordinator tons of pain & time
Hats is what ties it all together.

Hats is the connective tissue that ties all your other tools together, an organizational roles and permissions layer that composes with all your favorite tools and is fully controlled by the org itself, mitigating risk of internal or external capture.
See more about our commitment to composability and get started with Hats today.
There are so many incredible composable tools for collectively managing an organization. We're living it in Hats protoDAO, composing DAOhaus, Safe, Sobol, Quests, Splits, Coordinape, DeForm, CharmVerse, Collab.Land, and Guild into an all-star suite of tools with Hats tying it all together.
Here’s how 👇
Hats protoDAO governance runs through DAOHaus and Moloch v3 contracts.
Hats Contributors earn protoRep based on their contributions. Once they put on a Steward hat, their protoRep converts into protoVotes to govern the protoDAO commons.

Hats protoDAO uses hat-gated Safe multisigs to collectively manage its resources.
Revocable signing authority is delegated to individuals & teams using Hats to ensure the multisigs are ultimately controlled by the protoDAO as a whole.

Meanwhile, Sobol's Hats Composer app makes it easy for protoDAO members to connect their Hats Protocol hats, Safe multisigs, and DAOhaus DAOs together into a unified onchain governance system.

Hats protoDAO uses Quests and Splits as the primary tools for tracking contributions.
Contributors use Quests to log their contributions, which are then linked to the Hats Protocol Quest and other relevant Quests to create a network graph of contributions.

Within each Quest, contributors add a Splits address to split up the protoRep awarded to the contribution among themselves.
Splits + Quests creates a hyperstructure of contributions and reputation that will span the life of the project (and beyond).

Hats protoDAO uses hat-gated Coordinape circles to intersubjectively allocate protoRep based on a contribution's impact, using GIVE as a voting mechanism.
Each node in a Coordinape circle is a contribution identified by Splits address, plus a link to its Quest for details.

DeForm handles all the protoDAO's information-gathering needs.
By hat-gating our DeForms using its web3 capabilities, we ensure only the right hat-wearers (e.g., Hats Community Members) can access and submit the forms meant for them.

CharmVerse is the go-to information repository and wiki for Hats protoDAO.
CharmVerse pages are hat-gated with nuanced read/write/admin permissions: Community Hat-wearers can read & comment, Contributors can add new pages, and only Stewards can delete pages.

Hats protoDAO uses Collab.Land to hat-gate access into the protoDAO's Telegram channels.
The moment someone loses their hat, they're automatically kicked from the appropriate TG group by the Collab.Land bot.

When we need to share a private Google doc, sheet, or slides only with Community members, we hat-gate it with Guild.
Guild makes it easy to set read/comment/write permissions for our docs so only the right hat-wearers have the right permissions at any time.

Hats protoDAO uses Hats (of course!) to:
manage access to the tools above
automate onboarding, promotion & offboarding
give people an onchain embodiment of their roles
save our protoDAO coordinator tons of pain & time
Hats is what ties it all together.

Hats is the connective tissue that ties all your other tools together, an organizational roles and permissions layer that composes with all your favorite tools and is fully controlled by the org itself, mitigating risk of internal or external capture.
See more about our commitment to composability and get started with Hats today.
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