Organizations work better with Hats. Save time, automate onboarding, and manage permissions across the internet with programmable onchain roles.
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Managing access to workspaces, documents, and communications channels in a growing organization can be a nightmare. With contributors joining and leaving, roles changing, and permissions evolving, it’s easy for things to slip through the cracks. This often results in security risks, inefficiencies, and a lack of accountability.
Hats Protocol automates access management across all levels of your organization. By automatically granting and revoking contributor permissions based on predefined eligibility rules — such as agreements, subscriptions, assets, and more — Hats ensures that only the right people have the right access at the right times, without the need for any centralized oversight or manual verification.
Featured organization: Unlock Protocol. See a demo video here.
Hats has integrated with Unlock Protocol to allow organizations to set up recurring subscriptions or one-time membership fees for roles. When you add a subscription or membership fee to a role, a unique claim page is automatically generated for fee collection and onboarding.
Once a subscription or membership is active, the new member immediately gains all associated role powers, such as access to workspaces, communication channels, and voting rights. If the subscription is canceled or expires, access is automatically revoked.
For a video tutorial and written guide for how to add a subscription or membership fee to a hat, see the docs here.
Featured organization: Optimism Fractal. See their Hats structure here.
Optimism Fractal exemplifies how organizations can use Hats to automate role assignments and revocations as they get more involved in the organization.
As a starting point, Optimism Fractal uses the Hats Agreement Eligibility module (see the next example below) to ensure new members complete a tutorial during onboarding. By signing the onchain agreement verifying they've completed the tutorial, new members receive the Fractalgram Certification hat, providing entry into the community.
Then, as members accrue a certain amount of Optimism Fractal tokens, they can "level up" automatically by claiming new roles they are eligible for. Earn 5 Optimism Fractal and you can claim the Rookie hat, which provides access to community workspaces.
Earn 50 Optimism Fractal and you can claim the Rising Star hat, which enables you to take on a leadership role at Optimism Fractal events! If anyone were to fall below this threshold of 50 Optimism Fractal tokens, their hat would be immediately and automatically revoked.
Wear both the Fractalgram Certification hat and the Rising Star hat and you can become a Respect Game Leader and hold a major leadership role in the DAO!
Because Optimsim Fractal uses Hats, none of these verification details need to be manually tracked, nor do permissions need to be manually assigned. Instead, contributors can level up in the community based on the stages set by the organization, automatically accruing more and more permissions with each level.
Featured organizations: Hats protoDAO and LEXClinic. See their Hats structures here and here.
Hats protoDAO, the organization working to decentralize and govern Hats Protocol itself, includes several roles each representing different degrees of involvement in the community. The most basic of these roles is the Hats Community Member, which serves as the entry point to the community.
The onboarding process for joining the Hats Community is fully automated, providing new members with the relevant context and access they need the instant they join. This saves a ton of time, as new community members do not need to be manually added to communication channels and workspaces as they get involved.
With the onboarding mini-app, anyone can become a Hats protoDAO Community Member in seconds. Onboarding is self-service, intuitive, permissionless, and onchain. Users can onboard in three steps:
When the new community member executes the signature transaction, Hats Protocol creates an onchain transaction that verifies agreement with the Community Agreements & Code of Conduct and automatically mints a Hats Community Member Hat to the user’s wallet. Once claimed, the user assumes the Community Member role and receives the permissions that come with it.
This Community Member hat gives them the appropriate level of access to all the community’s tools and platforms, allowing them participate in protoDAO governance and community discussion right away. This includes the Community’s communication channels, workspaces, documents, form access, and voting rights.
LEXClinic is similarly using Hats to ensure new members consent to entry agreements prior to claiming a role in the organization.
As needed, the organization like LEXClinic can update the agreement (for example, at the start of a new season) and require members to sign it within a given period of time. If members do not sign the new agreement in the specified time period, their Community Member hats will be automatically revoked, and they’ll instantly lose the access permissions that come with it.