# Prototyping the precursor to Hats in Raid Guild

*Onchain Availability and Commitments*

By [nintynick.eth 🧢](https://paragraph.com/@nicknaraghi) · 2022-04-07

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When people ask us where we got the idea for Hats Protocol, I often share the link to the internal project that Spencer and I worked on at Raid Guild called "Availability and Commitments." Spencer had been working on onchain commitment mechanism design for a while, and we really got to go deep on it as part of the Token Talk team.

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RIP: Raid Commitment Staking and Bonus Rewards · Issue #75 · raid-guild/RIPs
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Project Idea The goal of this RIP is to create a mechanism that incentivizes the completion of raids after they are committed to by raiders. To do this, we propose a simple staking and bonus system: stake to commit to a Raid (or RIP), ge...





](https://github.com/raid-guild/RIPs/issues/75)

[Can we use RAID to facilitate strong commitment to Raids and RIPs?](https://hackmd.io/AMDROH7gToSqELsOcLIKJg?both)

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*Originally published on [nintynick.eth 🧢](https://paragraph.com/@nicknaraghi/raidguild-rip-75)*