Hypha Accelerator Program for Exponential Impact (APEX)

Introduction

One of the challenges for Hypha is to grow the ecosystem in a healthy and sustainable way. The dominant strategy so far is to build a large-scale movement (our own SEEDS movement) or movement-of-movements (uniting other movements) through an extensive network of ambassadors and word-of-mouth activities (such as events and campaigns). While this strategy leads to a potentially large influx of new users, it has to overcome the Chasm between Early Adopters and Early Majority. In order to cross the Chasm, we must come together and find real and meaningful ways to collaborate. This is where a new (complementary) strategy comes into play, called the Accelerator Program for Exponential Impact (APEX). 

This new growth strategy creates a special funding/grant program for "XOs", special organizations that act as accelerators or incubators with exponential impact. This new kind of organization is using a highly tuned socio-ecological awareness (e.g. bioregion), socio-cultural awareness (e.g. community) and socio-technical stack (e.g. commons platform) that allows them to rapidly scale the ecosystem and activate hundreds, if not thousands of new local pilots around the planet. The delivery method for this organization is an "Organization-in-a-Box", "Marketplace-in-a-Box", or "Village-in-a-Box", a simple way to bundle our knowledge artifacts and recipes, to deliver it as a (digital or physical) box, and to capture the feedback in a loop that Cheryl Heller calls the Social Design Process. 

How this works

Hypha has already prototyped this process through a Meiosis with Samara in which two quests were launched through a contribution proposal in Hypha with the intention to create a separate organization that is very much connected with Hypha through a symbiotic relationship. While the new entity is fully autonomous (e.g. via a separate token and governance model), the relationship remains mutual through a series of bi-directional knowledge and value flows (not unlike Nora Bateson's Symmathesy). As a side effect of this growth strategy, we are able to expand our ecosystem through "waves" in which these new entities can then themselves spawn the next generation of child-entities.