---
type: source
title: "GnosisDAO passes 9-month Advisory Futarchy pilot integrating prediction market widgets into Snapshot governance"
author: "GnosisDAO (governance forum)"
url: https://gnosisdao.ghost.io/gnosisdao-governance-summary-february-2026/
date: 2026-02-01
domain: internet-finance
secondary_domains: []
format: article
status: processed
processed_by: rio
processed_date: 2026-04-07
priority: high
tags: [futarchy, gnosisdao, gnosis, prediction-markets, governance, conditional-tokens, ethereum]
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
---

## Content

GnosisDAO passed a 9-month "Advisory Futarchy" pilot in February 2026, proposed by Futarchy Labs. The pilot integrates prediction market widgets directly into Snapshot voting to estimate proposal impact on GNO price using the Conditional Token Framework (CTF).

Key features:
- Advisory only: prediction market results inform but don't bind governance decisions
- Integration with Snapshot: existing GnosisDAO governance interface
- Uses Gnosis Conditional Token Framework for market settlement
- 9-month duration: pilot is time-limited with review at end

This is distinct from MetaDAO's full conditional token governance where prediction market outcomes directly determine proposal passage/failure.

Sources:
- GnosisDAO governance summary (January/February 2026): https://gnosisdao.ghost.io/gnosisdao-governance-summary-january-2026/
- GnosisDAO governance summary February 2026: https://gnosisdao.ghost.io/gnosisdao-governance-summary-february-2026/

## Agent Notes
**Why this matters:** GnosisDAO is the DAO of Gnosis (creators of the Conditional Token Framework used by MetaDAO-adjacent projects). Their adoption of even advisory futarchy signals that the futarchy mechanism is gaining credibility in the Ethereum ecosystem beyond Solana/MetaDAO. It also represents a "soft ramp" — advisory futarchy as a stepping stone toward binding conditional governance.

**What surprised me:** GnosisDAO choosing advisory (non-binding) futarchy specifically. This suggests even the team that built conditional token infrastructure is testing the waters with a soft implementation rather than jumping to full conditional governance. The caution is interesting — the mechanism's creators are treating it as experimental.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Evidence that the pilot has produced specific price predictions that have been validated against GNO price outcomes. The pilot is recent; those results won't be available for months.

**KB connections:**
- "MetaDAOs Autocrat program implements futarchy through conditional token markets" — Gnosis is implementing a softer version using the same CTF foundation
- "futarchy solves trustless joint ownership" — advisory futarchy doesn't solve the trustless ownership problem (it's advisory), but it validates the information aggregation function
- GnosisDAO pattern complements the Uniswap/Optimism CFM pilots: three major DAOs adopting advisory/soft futarchy simultaneously suggests mechanism adoption curve is accelerating

**Extraction hints:** The "advisory futarchy as stepping stone" pattern deserves a claim: multiple major DAOs (GnosisDAO, Uniswap, Optimism) adopting non-binding prediction market governance in early 2026 represents a futarchy adoption curve where pilots precede binding implementation. This is either evidence that futarchy is maturing (early adopters) or evidence that the binding version is too risky for large-cap DAOs (permanent advisory state).

**Context:** GnosisDAO governs Gnosis Chain and the Safe multisig ecosystem. GNO token market cap is substantial. Their governance decisions affect significant protocol-level infrastructure. Advisory futarchy there is a more consequential test than MetaDAO's niche launchpad context.

## Curator Notes (structured handoff for extractor)
PRIMARY CONNECTION: futarchy solves trustless joint ownership not just better decision-making
WHY ARCHIVED: GnosisDAO + Uniswap + Optimism all adopting advisory/soft futarchy in early 2026 represents a meaningful adoption wave; the "advisory" vs "binding" distinction is the key tension to track
EXTRACTION HINT: The extractor should note that advisory futarchy validates the information aggregation function of Belief #2 but does NOT validate the trustless joint ownership function of Belief #3. These are separable claims and the adoption curve so far is confirming #2 while #3 remains MetaDAO-specific.
