# Hypercerts - A new primitive for public goods funding #Web3 Hypercerts and Gitcoin have collaborated to introduce hypercerts for eligible projects in the Gitcoin Program Alpha Round. Hypercerts are ERC-1155 semi-fungible tokens that serve as impact claims and enable different funding mechanisms to interoperate. With the Hypercerts Foundation's implementation, project owners can mint hypercerts for their past work and allocate fractions to supporters. These hypercerts are soulbound and cannot be sold or transferred, but projects can add benefits for hypercert owners. Hypercerts facilitate retrospective funding and coordination among multiple funders, paving the way for quadratic voting, milestone bounties, and more. The road ahead involves further development, such as onboarding contributors, assigning robust rights to hypercert ownership, establishing impact evaluators, creating marketplaces, and defining impact ontologies. Hypercerts have the potential to bring transparency and collective intelligence to impact funding systems. Access the complete article on the [Gitcoin Blog](https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/hypercerts-for-public-goods-funding)