Technical glossary

The key concepts covered during the conference.

MetaMask's programmable permissions framework (derived from Delegatable). Productized, audited, integrated into the wallet, then fully open-sourced.

CS concept (~1970): the signed-postcard metaphor. A signed permission, re-signable from one party to the next → chain of trust.

Arbitrary contract with before/after hooks meeting a common interface. Composable to express a precise permission.

Re-delegating a received permission while attenuating it (100 tokens → 20 tokens before Sunday → …).

Permission conditioned on a result via an after hook: “100 tokens if and only if I receive this NFT”.

A transaction wrapped in a delegation happens exactly as expected, or the whole thing reverts.

Intuition's data graph (atoms, triples, markets, trust). “A graph of reputation about everything.”

Building blocks of the knowledge graph. Atom = an entity; triple = a subject-predicate-object relation. You stake on them to express trust.

The definition of a knowledge graph: which triples and structure to organize data semantically (mission 13).

Combining Delegation Framework + knowledge graph: moving from literal delegations to semantic, dynamic ones based on reputation.

Governance mixing direct and delegated voting, with multi-level delegation chains and voting contextualized by expertise. Opposes plutocracy.

Governance where voting power is weighted by the amount of tokens held. The limit liquid democracy overcomes.

Repo/tool (JP/GP) packaging Intuition's context to accelerate builders and agents. Target of mission 12.

Payment standard for agents (payments at the real-world intersection). A building block of the agent use cases.

Advanced permissions: requesting fine-grained permissions directly from the MetaMask extension.

Standard related to the Delegation Framework (on-chain delegation / smart accounts).

Demo (ECC Brussels): 10 balloons impossible to collect alone → forced cooperation by sharing delegations.

Dan Finlay's open-source project, origin of the Delegation Framework (2020 → ETHDenver 2023).