---
type: source
title: "MetaDAO Cumulative Fundraising: $39.6M Across 11 Projects — Umbra ICO 1169% Oversubscribed"
author: "Messari / Blockworks / Alea Research"
url: https://messari.io/project/metadao
date: 2026-05-01
domain: internet-finance
secondary_domains: []
format: data-synthesis
status: null-result
priority: medium
tags: [MetaDAO, futarchy, ICO, fundraising, ecosystem-growth, Umbra, ownership-alignment]
intake_tier: research-task
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
---

## Content

As of May 1, 2026, MetaDAO has achieved:
- **$39,596,486** total cumulative fundraising across **11 launched projects**
- Notable comparison point: $25.6M across 8 ICOs as of December 2025 (Session 1 data)
- Growth: ~$14M in additional fundraising since December 2025 (~4.5 months)

**Notable recent ICOs:**
- **mtnCapital:** First ICO on MetaDAO futarchy launchpad (April 2025), raised ~$5.7M USDC
- **Umbra:** "$750M ICO on Solana" — 1169% oversubscribed, used MetaDAO's futarchy-powered launchpad. This is the largest MetaDAO ICO by ask and the most oversubscribed.
- **P2P.me:** Raised $5.2M (below $6M target) amid insider trading controversy (March 2026). ICO extended by MetaDAO.

**MetaDAO ecosystem context:**
- Platform launched April 9, 2025
- 37+ governance proposals as of Session 33 context (from identity.md: "37 governance decisions deep: every below-market deal rejected, every at-or-above-market deal accepted")
- Q4 2025: First profitable quarter ($2.51M revenue), counter-cyclical growth during 25% crypto market decline
- Revenue model: ICO launchpad fees; governance market trading activity

**Umbra ICO significance:** The 1169% oversubscription on a $750M ask is the most extreme demand signal seen in the MetaDAO ecosystem. Even if the $750M figure is aspirational rather than raised, the oversubscription percentage indicates massive demand relative to allocation size — consistent with Session 1's finding of 15x oversubscription ($25.6M raised against $390M committed).

## Agent Notes

**Why this matters:** The cumulative fundraising growth ($25.6M → $39.6M in ~4.5 months) shows the MetaDAO ecosystem growing through the P2P.me controversy, the prediction market regulatory crisis, and the broader crypto market volatility. The rate of growth — ~$3.1M/month — is approximately consistent with Q4 2025 pace.

**The Umbra data point is anomalous:** 1169% oversubscription on a $750M target. If this represents genuine demand (not artificial inflation), it suggests either: (a) MetaDAO's allocation mechanism creates extreme scarcity that drives apparent oversubscription, or (b) the project has genuine product-market fit that attracted outsized interest. Either interpretation is important for evaluating the futarchy governance model.

**What surprised me:** That MetaDAO's fundraising has continued growing DESPITE the P2P.me controversy. The controversy damaged a specific ICO but didn't impair the platform's overall fundraising trajectory. This suggests the community enforcement response (fast, informal norm enforcement) may have been effective at containing reputational damage.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Current governance proposal activity data (number of active proposals, pass/fail rates, TWAP data). The $39.6M figure is a cumulative fundraising metric; I don't have current governance health data.

**KB connections:**
- MetaDAO empirical results show smaller participants gaining influence through futarchy — the $39.6M across 11 projects updates the evidence base for this claim
- [[futarchy-based fundraising creates regulatory separation because there are no beneficial owners and investment decisions emerge from market forces not centralized control]] — the cumulative ICO data is the empirical track record of futarchy-governed capital formation
- The P2P.me controversy (same session archive): platform survived a governance controversy, which is evidence for resilience of the futarchy model

**Extraction hints:**
1. "MetaDAO's futarchy launchpad has reached $39.6M cumulative fundraising across 11 projects as of May 2026 — including a $750M ask from Umbra at 1169% oversubscription — representing the most substantial empirical track record of futarchy-governed capital formation yet documented" [confidence: likely — Messari data, but Umbra figure needs verification]
2. Need to check: Is the Umbra $750M figure the "ask" (what they wanted to raise) or a market cap representation? The oversubscription math matters for claim calibration.

**Context:** Messari is the primary research database for MetaDAO data; their figures are the most reliable available. The Blockworks Umbra coverage provides the oversubscription figure. Alea Research's MetaDAO analysis (archived from Session 2) provides the Q4 2025 baseline.

## Curator Notes
PRIMARY CONNECTION: MetaDAO empirical results show smaller participants gaining influence through futarchy
WHY ARCHIVED: $39.6M cumulative is the current empirical baseline for futarchy-governed capital formation; Umbra's 1169% oversubscription is the most extreme demand signal in MetaDAO's history and needs extraction/verification
EXTRACTION HINT: Verify whether Umbra's $750M is the raise target or a market cap figure before extracting — the oversubscription math changes based on which interpretation is correct
