The Very Beginning

Behind the quirky name, "Taiwan HyperAwesome Guidebook" lies a humble beginning.

tyc, tired of her routine frontend tasks, wanted to initiate a one-person web3 project. The aim was to replace useless online learning and certificate with a real project. With a pragmatic mindset, we act first, then try to redfine it later.

The first version of the "Taiwan HyperAwesome Guidebook" was simple and naive. Our core concern was: “Why do large projects always have issues? Can smaller nonprofit projects be better? How can we support these projects, NGOs, and people?”

We believe most of the rankings lists, like [top X influencers in field Y], are founded on mercenary intent and are foolish. Most of these ranking lists are well-known but difficult to trust.

When we wondered why there wasn’t a better, more legitimate, more credible neutral list, that phrase came to mind: as the g0v manifesto of Taiwan’s civic tech community states: “Don’t ask why no one is doing this. Admit that you are this no one.”

We realized that even objective ranking lists can be hard to believe. This is the "post-truth" era—believers will always believe, non-believers will never believe.

So, why not revive the old p2p solidarity spirit, starting with those who believe and gradually building our trust network?

Initial "Geek" Design

Michelin Guide

At first, we thought the Michelin restaurant guide was cool. We aimed to emulate its format, finding a group of reviewers in Taiwan willing to lend their credibility. We discussed and publicized evaluation standards and declarations, periodically recommending groups that have a positive social impact in the Taiwan context.

Donation Rankings

Next, we wrote recommendations and listed them in the guide, making it easier for more people to see the people and things we support. We also provided cryptocurrency donation features. To add fun, we designed a leaderboard to gamify donations: donations could accumulate points, and the higher the points, the different avatars and webpage animations users would get. Playing games reduces the fear of making mistakes, giving players multiple lives and fostering healthy competition.

Quadratic Funding

Then we wanted to introduce quadratic funding. In simple terms, it allows donors to allocate resources to different organizations with one click, using a square root sum distribution method. This way, if our guide features trustworthy projects, we can move beyond single donations to distribute resources more effectively, increasing overall impact. In the past, individual or corporate donations usually went to one or two favorite organizations. But perhaps there are more efficient ways to donate, making quadratic funding suitable for individual donations. This allows donors who don’t have time to thoroughly review projects to distribute funds better based on trust.

Self-Reflection

After some debate among us, we realized the above geek approach is not sustainable. How can we ensure continuous participation of reviewers? How can we ensure projects are rich and genuinely meaningful for donations? How can we ensure the guide’s team has enough capacity for sustainable operation? These were issues we hadn't considered.

The New "Awesome" Implementation

After establishing the original version and completing the webpage prototype, we (forcefully) involved mashbean and Frank to adjust the structure. Through constant iterations and debates, we developed the current "Awesome" version.

illustrate by mashbean

With a revised approach, we acknowledge that we are mere participants within the public welfare ecosystem. We need to change the mindset that a “singular mechanism or technology can solve everything.” As our manifesto states:

“Public goods, Harberger tax, quadratic voting—these academic terms are impressive. However, these complex concepts can hinder mutual understanding and collaboration. Let's hide these concepts and focus on practical action. Trust will naturally grow.”

Therefore, in the current version, we aim to build a peer-to-peer group method, creating records of trust and good deeds. By considering records as points and group activities as lines, a trust-based network will ultimately form. We’ve redefined the guide. Traditional guides are top-down oracles, often mixed with impure intentions. This time, the guide is authored by activists, with the oracle defined by the growing community.

Key Changes

🪢 Mouse Club Grouping

The "Taiwan HyperAwesome Guidebook" spreads from small nodes, starting with FAB DAO (Formosa Art Bank) or nearby networks. Whether through financial support or effort, good deeds will be recorded on the "Taiwan HyperAwesome Guidebook." The guide’s core consists of friends willing to roll up their sleeves and sincerely recommend others.

✅ Hypercerts Verified

Hypercerts are international digital certification standards for public goods. The creators aim to generate a trading market for these certificates, thereby creating a public goods certification market. However, after various preliminary experiments, we don't believe hypercerts can truly generate a market yet, as the ESG trading era has not arrived. Currently, we use hypercerts as a certification mark, indicating that the group initiator is trusted by "Our Awesome Team." Thus, we keep potential opportunities to connect with international organizations like the Hypercerts Foundation without adopting their complex technical structure.

💰 Supporting Both NTD and Cryptocurrency

No matter how promising web3 is, the current reality is that only accepting cryptocurrency could create unnecessary barriers for many potential supporters. Therefore, supporting New Taiwan Dollar (NTD) is something we will do soon.

👍 Optimized Donations with One Click

We wrote a smart contract based on quadratic funding (details in the appendix), allowing supporters to provide an “optimized” matching donation plan given the fixed donation amount, offering references across various projects. Of course, this is just a suggestion, and supporters can adjust the allocation as they see fit.

Appendix: Changes to Donation Rankings and Quadratic Funding

1. Cryptocurrency Support: Currently, we only support USDT donations on the Optimism blockchain to simplify participant understanding.
2. Quadratic Funding Model: We designed a simple points calculation method, allowing us to distribute donations using a square root sum, encouraging spread within the trust network. Practically, when a supporter donates, the program will automatically calculate and suggest distribution amounts to different organizations. However, this is just a suggestion, and users can freely adjust it.
3. Prevent Sybil Attack: If a supporter donates to a specific organization, subsequent donations within seven days will not be recorded to prevent multiple donations from altering the matching mechanism. No other anti-Sybil attack measures are preset.

🛋️ Collaboration with GreenSofa

GreenSofa is a group dedicated to international cryptocurrency public resources and promoting web3 sustainability. Familiar with cryptocurrency and hypercert concepts, GreenSofa is an ideal action partner to explore reasonable uses of hypercerts.

Conclusion

"Our Awesome Team" shared the initial development journey to invite you to join us in doing good deeds together. Please review our manifesto once more. Friends! Let’s roll up our sleeves, contribute money and effort, and take real action together!

台灣超讚的指南詳析

緣起

在很土很ㄎㄧㄤ的名字背後，「台灣超讚指南」有一個非常樸素的起源。 超讚的網頁製作者 tyc 厭倦了日常的前端工作，想發動「一個人」即能完成的 web3 專案，以實際行動帶替沒 fu 的線上學習。 所以我們落實先做再說的精神，一步步讓指南越來越完整。

畢竟台灣超讚的公民科技社群 g0v 宣言說： 「不要問為什麼沒有人做這個，先承認你就是『沒有人』。」

初衷

「台灣超讚指南」的第一版很天真。 我們叩問的核心關懷是「為何樹大必有枯枝？小型非營利專案是否更好？如何支持這些人？」

我們認為市面上許多Ｏ大影響力人物、ＸＸ傑出青年、ＯＯ排名等等，是基於某些隱而未現的需求成立的。 許多公益推薦榜名聲很響亮，但卻很難讓我們信任。 但我們又發現，即使是超然客觀的排行，也很難讓人相信。這是因為現在已經是「後真相」的時代，信者恆信，不信者恆不信。 不如我們拾回「點對點」（p2p）舊時代的團結精神，從相信的人開始相信起，慢慢構築自己的信任網絡（Trust Network）。

原始的「Geek」設計

米其林指南

一開始我們覺得米其林餐廳指南很酷，因此想仿造其格式，在台灣尋找一群願意提供其公信力的評審，經討論公開評選標準與宣言，每隔一段時間，推薦數組對台灣社會有貢獻的人事物。

捐款排行榜

接著我們為其撰寫推介並上架指南，讓更多人看到我們喜歡且認同的人事物，同時提供加密貨幣捐款功能。為了增加有趣程度，我們設計了排行榜，試圖將捐款行為遊戲化：捐款可以累積積分，積分越高，會有對應不同的頭像，以及點擊網頁時有不同的動畫效果。 玩遊戲讓人不怕犯錯，讓玩家存在好幾條命，讓趣味的良性競爭發生。

平方資助法

再來我們想導入平方資助法。 簡單來說，讓想捐款的人，可以一鍵分配資源到不同組織身上，分配的方式採用根號和的累加。

這是因為如果我們有一個指南，上面都是令人信任的好專案，就可以跳脫單筆捐款，而可以雨露均霑，增加整體效益。 過去無論是個人捐款或企業捐款，通常捐給喜歡的一兩個組織。但或許目前還有讓資源更有效益的捐款方式，因此平方資助法適合個人捐款。 讓沒時間細看各專案的捐款者，基於信任關係，能一鍵將資金做更好的分配。

自我反思

以上頗「Geek」的思路，讓進入開發階段的我們發現，第一版構想門檻太高，不可能持續。

如何確保評審可以連續參與？ 如何確保專案夠豐富且真的有捐款意義？ 如何確保指南的小組量能足夠，真的能永續運作？

這些都是未經思慮的議題。

新版的「超讚」實踐

在有了「Geek」版營運架構與網頁雛型之後，我們（強迫）抓了 mashbean 與 Frank 一起調整架構，在不斷迭代與「拌嘴」後，有了現在的「超讚」版本。

由黃豆泥製圖

首先我們正視自己只是公益生態的一介參與者。我們需要努力克制學院派 Geek 的「技術救世衝動」，正如倡議宣言中提到：

「公共財、哈柏格稅、平方投票法，這些學術名詞都很厲害，但不明覺厲的概念，只會阻礙我們互相理解與協作。將這些概念藏起來吧，實際上做出來，信任自然會長出來。」

因此如圖所示，在現行的版本中，我們試圖搭設一套點對點的揪團方法，建立充滿信任與善舉的行動紀錄。 若以記錄為點，揪團為線，最後就會有整張由信任構成的織面。

我們翻轉了指南的意義，過去的指南是由上而下的神諭，其中多少會摻雜不純的意圖，而這次我們將指南的撰作交給行動者，神諭由漸漸擴大的部落來定義。 以下為幾個翻轉精神：

🪢 揪團的老鼠會

「台灣超讚指南」從一些小節點開始擴散，從台灣 web3 公共生活場域「FAB DAO」（福爾摩沙藝術銀行）或鄰近的網絡開始，一個傳兩個，兩個傳四個，無論是出錢出力，揪團做好事的紀錄都會被銘刻在「台灣超讚指南」上面。

指南的主體是願意捲起袖子真心推薦的朋友們。（圖中紅色與灰色部分）

✅ 超證即勾勾

超證（hypercerts）是一個國際上定義公共性的數位憑證標準，主事者想要讓這些憑證可以產生交易市場，繼而創造公益憑證市場。

但是在各種前置實驗後，我們並不認為超證可以真的產生市場，畢竟 ESG 交易時代尚未到來。目前我們將超證單純作為一種認證標章，表示揪團者經過「超讚的我們」所信任。

因此我們保留與超證基金會（hypercerts foundation）等國際組織接軌的潛在機會，而不採納其複雜的技術架構。

💰 新台幣與加密貨幣都 OK

無論 web3 承諾人們多美好的未來，但現狀是若只有加密貨幣將為許多潛在支持者帶來不必要的門檻，所以必須支援新台幣，這是一個在不久的將來會做的事情。

👍 「超讚！捐款」一鍵優化

我們設計了基於平方資助法的智能合約公式（詳情請見附註），讓支持者可以在一樣的捐款金額下，提供一個「最佳化」的配捐方案，提供支持者在各個專案之間參考。當然，這只是建議，支持者可以自行修改分配方式。

附註：關於「捐款排行榜」與「平方資助法」的改版

1. 加密貨幣支持：目前僅支援 Optimism 區塊鏈的 USDT 的捐款，簡化參與者的認知門檻。
2. 平方資助法模式：我們設計了一個簡單的積分計算方式，讓我們可以將捐款以「根號和」分佈，以此鼓勵在揪團的信任網絡中鼓勵擴散捐款。實際上就是當一個支持者在捐款時，程式會自動算出分佈捐款不同數額給不同組織的建議，當然，只是建議，用戶可以隨意調整。
3. 防濫用機制：若一名支持者對特定組織捐款，則未來七天內的捐款就不會被記錄，避免多筆捐款改變配捐機制。此外不預設其他防止濫用機制。

🛋️ 與綠沙發合作

綠沙發（GreenSofa）是爭取國際加密貨幣公共資源，並發揚 web3 永續精神的小組。作為相對熟悉加密貨幣與超證概念，且短小精幹能動性非常強的組織，與綠沙發進一步一起探討超證的合理使用方式，可說是最好的行動夥伴。

結語

「超讚的我們」介紹了初步開發的心路歷程，其實只是想邀請您一起與我們揪團做好事。再看一次我們的倡議宣言。 朋友們！讓我們捲起袖子，有錢出錢有力出力，一起（扭到腳）實際做出行動吧！