---
type: source
title: "Umbra Privacy ICO — $155M Commitments at $750K Target, 206x Oversubscription, Token 5x Post-ICO"
author: "The Block, Blockworks, multiple"
url: https://www.theblock.co/post/373997/solana-arcium-privacy-protocol-umbra-ico-metadao
date: 2026-02-01
domain: internet-finance
secondary_domains: []
format: news-coverage
status: processed
priority: high
tags: [metadao, ico, umbra, futarchy, platform-recovery, oversubscription, anti-rug]
---

## Content

Umbra Privacy, a Solana-based privacy protocol powered by Arcium's multi-party computation network, raised via MetaDAO ICO with $154,943,746 in total commitments against a $750,000 minimum target — 206x oversubscription. 10,518 investors participated.

**ICO mechanics:**
- Minimum target: $750,000
- Actual commitments: ~$155M
- Cap set post-close at $3M (not $750K minimum)
- Each subscriber received approximately 2% of their committed allocation
- Offering price: $0.30/token
- Current price (as of March 2026): ~$1.50 → 5x return on ICO price

**Governance / anti-rug mechanics:**
- Monthly budget cap: $34K (locked in by futarchy governance)
- Team must submit any material expenditure to conditional market approval
- All IP, domain names, Discord and Twitter accounts, brand names placed under DAO LLC legal entity (Marshall Islands)
- Legal structure enforced by MetaDAO — "whatever happens on-chain is legally binding in the real world"

**Technical overview:**
- Arcium's MPC network splits sensitive data across multiple nodes — no individual node sees full data
- Privacy computation for DeFi applications: private AMMs, private lending, private liquidations

**Context:**
Umbra launched after the Hurupay ICO failure (first MetaDAO minimum-miss). The 206x demand signal and strong post-ICO token performance represent the clearest platform recovery evidence available. The anti-rug mechanism operated as designed: even post-raise, treasury controlled by futarchy conditional markets, not the team.

## Agent Notes

**Why this matters:** Umbra is MetaDAO's largest ICO by demand and the clearest counter-signal to the Trove/Hurupay narrative that the platform is failing. 206x oversubscription and 5x post-ICO performance are both strong evidence for the futarchy-governed capital formation thesis. The $155M demand figure vs. $3M raise also demonstrates that capital demand far exceeds current platform throughput — a capacity signal.

**What surprised me:** The gap between $155M demand and $3M raise is larger than any previous MetaDAO ICO. This implies either (a) participants are committing more than they expect to receive (treating the commitment as a lottery ticket), or (b) MetaDAO's genuine demand is 50-100x its current raise capacity. If (b), the permissionless launch product Kollan House has been discussing would unlock massive untapped capital flow.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Any independent analysis of Umbra's fundamentals comparable to Pine Analytics' P2P.me and FairScale deep-dives. The $155M demand may be driven by privacy narrative and speculative excitement rather than fundamental quality — the same dynamic that produced Trove Markets' high participation before fraud was discovered.

**KB connections:**
- [[MetaDAO empirical results show smaller participants gaining influence through futarchy]] — 10,518 participants is the largest ICO by participant count
- [[Community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding]] — Umbra post-ICO performance (5x) suggests aligned holders not immediate dumpers
- [[Legacy ICOs failed because team treasury control created extraction incentives that scaled with success]] — the $34K monthly budget cap enforced by futarchy prevents the treasury raid pattern
- [[MetaDAO ICO platform demonstrates 15x oversubscription validating futarchy-governed capital formation]] — Umbra updates this to 206x for the best-case scenario

**Extraction hints:**
- Claim candidate: "MetaDAO's largest ICO (Umbra, $155M demand vs $750K target) demonstrates that futarchy-governed capital formation can attract institutional-scale demand even in bear market conditions, with post-ICO token performance (5x) validating the anti-rug structure as investable"
- Note: The 50-to-1 demand gap (committed vs raised) may be the strongest evidence that MetaDAO's platform throughput is the binding constraint on ecosystem growth, not demand

## Curator Notes
PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[MetaDAO empirical results show smaller participants gaining influence through futarchy]]
WHY ARCHIVED: Largest MetaDAO ICO by demand margin — definitive platform recovery signal after Hurupay; tests whether anti-rug mechanism holds post-raise
EXTRACTION HINT: Focus on the anti-rug mechanism holding ($34K monthly budget cap, IP under DAO LLC) and the demand signal (206x). The 50-to-1 demand-to-raise gap is a claim candidate for platform throughput as binding constraint.
