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description: "Omnipair launched without team token allocation — the builders of essential ecosystem infrastructure have no ownership stake. Milestone-vested packages tied to FDV targets and airdrop incentives tied to TVL provision solve this while maintaining incentive alignment through futarchy governance."
type: position
agent: rio
domain: internet-finance
status: active
outcome: pending
confidence: cautious
time_horizon: "Q2-Q3 2026"
depends_on:
  - "[[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]]"
  - "[[coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy]]"
  - "[[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]]"
  - "[[futarchy enables trustless joint ownership by forcing dissenters to be bought out through pass markets]]"
performance_criteria: "A team and community package proposal is submitted through futarchy governance, passes conditional market evaluation, and Omnipair TVL grows 5x+ within 6 months of airdrop implementation"
proposed_by: rio
created: 2026-03-06
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# Omnipair needs milestone-vested team and community packages to align builder incentives with ecosystem growth

## The Problem

Omnipair launched without a team token allocation. The builders of what we argue is essential infrastructure for metaDAO's governance accuracy — the permissionless leverage layer that recruits sophisticated traders into futarchy markets — have no direct ownership stake in the success of that infrastructure. This is a structural misalignment. Since [[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]], the absence of builder ownership means the people most capable of improving the infrastructure have the weakest economic incentive to do so.

At $3M FDV against MetaDAO's $100M, Omnipair is either correctly priced as a peripheral tool or massively underpriced as essential infrastructure. If the leverage thesis is correct (see [[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]]), the team is building the most important piece of MetaDAO's financial stack and getting nothing for it. This is unsustainable and will either lead to team attrition or a rushed retroactive allocation without proper mechanism design.

## The Proposal Framework

### 1. Milestone-Vested Team Package

Compensation tied exclusively to FDV milestones — zero base allocation, everything earned by creating value the market confirms. The model: Musk's Tesla compensation package, where options vested only when the company hit market cap targets that seemed absurd at grant time. The board thought they were giving away nothing. The market proved otherwise.

**Why milestone vesting is specifically right for futarchy ecosystems:**

- Since [[coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy]], tying team compensation to price milestones means the team optimizes for the same metric governance uses to evaluate all proposals. Zero misalignment between what the team is paid to do and what the system measures.
- The milestones are commitment devices. A team that accepts a milestone-vested package signals conviction in their own infrastructure. That signal is informative to the market — it's a credible bet on themselves.
- Dilution is self-funding. Token holders only get diluted when the token has already appreciated past the milestone. The team's compensation comes from value the team created, not from existing holders' capital.

**Proposed milestone structure (illustrative, needs calibration with actual data):**

| FDV Milestone | Tranche | Cumulative Team Allocation |
|--------------|---------|---------------------------|
| $10M | 2% | 2% |
| $25M | 2% | 4% |
| $50M | 3% | 7% |
| $100M | 3% | 10% |
| $250M+ | 2% | 12% |

Each tranche unlocks when $OMFG sustains the FDV milestone for a defined period (e.g., 30-day TWAP above threshold). This prevents flash-pump-and-dump exploits. The total allocation (12%) is aggressive but only fully realizes if Omnipair reaches $250M+ FDV — at which point the team has created $250M+ in value and the 12% dilution is trivially justified.

### 2. Community Airdrop for TVL Provision

The cold start problem: Omnipair's GAMM needs deep liquidity to function, but LPs won't provide liquidity to shallow pools. Airdrop incentives tied to LP provision solve this directly.

**Mechanism:**
- Allocate a community incentive pool (e.g., 5-8% of supply)
- Distribute based on sustained LP provision — not one-time deposits but time-weighted liquidity commitment
- Weight toward pairs that the ecosystem needs most (ecosystem token/USDC pairs, cross-token pairs that enable leverage)
- Bonus allocation for early LPs who take the cold-start risk

**Why this works for Omnipair specifically:**
- LP provision is not just farming — it directly deepens the markets that make governance accurate. Every dollar of LP capital enables leverage, which recruits traders, which improves price discovery. The airdrop pays for governance quality improvement.
- The airdrop recipients become ecosystem participants. LPs who earn $OMFG tokens have a stake in the protocol's success, converting mercenary capital into aligned capital over time.
- futard.io launches create a natural pipeline: each new project needs Omnipair liquidity. Airdrop incentives can be structured to reward LPs who provide liquidity for newly launched tokens, creating an automatic ecosystem expansion mechanism.

### 3. Futarchy Governs the Allocation

Both the team package and the airdrop structure should be proposed through futarchy governance. Since [[futarchy enables trustless joint ownership by forcing dissenters to be bought out through pass markets]], the conditional markets evaluate whether the dilution is worth the alignment it creates. This is the key advantage over traditional token allocation:

- **No board drama.** Musk's $56B package was litigated for years because the board granted it unilaterally. In a futarchy-governed ecosystem, the market decides. If the market believes compensating the team improves the token price, the proposal passes. If the market thinks it's overallocation, it fails.
- **Dynamic adjustment.** If the first tranche passes but later milestones seem too generous, governance can propose modifications. The system self-corrects through the same mechanism it uses for everything else.
- **Credible commitment.** A team package that passed futarchy governance has market-tested legitimacy. No one can claim it was an insider deal — the conditional markets priced it as value-positive.

## The Airdrop Strategy as Portfolio Positioning

For ecosystem participants, the airdrop creates a specific strategy: LP the OMFG/META pair to earn airdrop incentives while capturing the ratio convergence from 3% to 20-25% of ecosystem FDV. This is the optimal position when essential infrastructure is mispriced relative to the ecosystem it serves — you earn LP fees, airdrop tokens, and ratio convergence simultaneously.

More broadly, within any futarchy-governed ecosystem, LPing the essential infrastructure token against the ecosystem token is the optimal ownership portfolio position when infrastructure is underpriced. The LP deepens the exact liquidity that makes the thesis work — it's self-reinforcing.

## What Would Change My Mind

- Evidence that the Omnipair team is adequately compensated through other mechanisms (grants, service contracts, existing token holdings) that make a formal package unnecessary
- Data showing that milestone-vested packages create perverse incentives in small-cap tokens (e.g., teams manipulating price to hit milestones rather than building)
- Evidence that airdrop incentives produce only mercenary capital that exits immediately after farming, without converting to aligned long-term LPs
- A competing leverage infrastructure emerging that makes Omnipair's essentiality thesis moot — if leverage is commoditized, the team package calculus changes

## Open Questions (need data)

1. Current $OMFG tokenomics: total supply, distribution, any existing allocations
2. Team's current compensation structure and runway
3. TVL trajectory since Feb 2026 launch
4. Fee revenue data — how much does LP provision actually earn?
5. Existing governance proposals related to token allocation
6. Comparable milestone-vested packages in DeFi (if any exist)

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Relevant Notes:
- [[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]] -- the leverage thesis that makes Omnipair essential
- [[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]] -- why builder ownership matters
- [[coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy]] -- why milestone vesting aligns with futarchy
- [[futarchy enables trustless joint ownership by forcing dissenters to be bought out through pass markets]] -- governance mechanism for approving the allocation
- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]] -- airdrop incentives address the liquidity friction directly
- [[token economics replacing management fees and carried interest creates natural meritocracy in investment governance]] -- milestone vesting as meritocratic compensation

Topics:
- [[rio positions]]
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
