# Internet Finance & Decision Markets

Navigation hub for Rio's domain. Internet finance is the industry transition from traditional financial intermediation to programmable coordination — where futarchy, prediction markets, and token economics replace the rent-extraction of legacy gatekeepers.

## The Attractor State
- [[the blockchain coordination attractor state is programmable trust infrastructure where verifiable protocols ownership alignment and market-tested governance enable coordination that scales with complexity rather than requiring trusted intermediaries]]
- [[internet finance generates 50 to 100 basis points of additional annual GDP growth by unlocking capital allocation to previously inaccessible assets and eliminating intermediation friction]]
- [[cryptos primary use case is capital formation not payments or store of value because permissionless token issuance solves the fundraising bottleneck that solo founders and small teams face]]

## Futarchy & Governance Mechanisms
See also: [[core/mechanisms/_map]]

- [[futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders]]
- [[futarchy solves trustless joint ownership not just better decision-making]]
- [[futarchy enables trustless joint ownership by forcing dissenters to be bought out through pass markets]]
- [[speculative markets aggregate information through incentive and selection effects not wisdom of crowds]]
- [[coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy]]
- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]]
- [[redistribution proposals are futarchys hardest unsolved problem because they can increase measured welfare while reducing productive value creation]]

## MetaDAO Ecosystem
- [[MetaDAO is the futarchy launchpad on Solana where projects raise capital through unruggable ICOs governed by conditional markets creating the first platform for ownership coins at scale]]
- [[MetaDAOs Autocrat program implements futarchy through conditional token markets where proposals create parallel pass and fail universes settled by time-weighted average price over a three-day window]]
- [[MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions]]
- [[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]]
- [[internet capital markets compress fundraising from months to days because permissionless raises eliminate gatekeepers while futarchy replaces due diligence bottlenecks with real-time market pricing]]
- [[futarchy-governed liquidation is the enforcement mechanism that makes unruggable ICOs credible because investors can force full treasury return when teams materially misrepresent]]
- [[futarchy-governed permissionless launches require brand separation to manage reputational liability because failed projects on a curated platform damage the platforms credibility]]

## Living Capital
See also: [[core/living-capital/_map]]

- [[Living Capital vehicles pair Living Agent domain expertise with futarchy-governed investment to direct capital toward crucial innovations]]
- [[giving away the intelligence layer to capture value on capital flow is the business model because domain expertise is the distribution mechanism not the revenue source]]
- [[LLMs shift investment management from economies of scale to economies of edge because AI collapses the analyst labor cost that forced funds to accumulate AUM rather than generate alpha]]
- [[token economics replacing management fees and carried interest creates natural meritocracy in investment governance]]

## Legal & Regulatory
- [[Living Capital vehicles likely fail the Howey test for securities classification because the structural separation of capital raise from investment decision eliminates the efforts of others prong]]
- [[futarchy-governed entities are structurally not securities because prediction market participation replaces the concentrated promoter effort that the Howey test requires]]
- [[the DAO Reports rejection of voting as active management is the central legal hurdle for futarchy because prediction market trading must prove fundamentally more meaningful than token voting]]
- [[AI autonomously managing investment capital is regulatory terra incognita because the SEC framework assumes human-controlled registered entities deploy AI as tools]]
- [[Ooki DAO proved that DAOs without legal wrappers face general partnership liability making entity structure a prerequisite for any futarchy-governed vehicle]]

## AI x Finance
- [[AI labor displacement operates as a self-funding feedback loop because companies substitute AI for labor as OpEx not CapEx meaning falling aggregate demand does not slow AI adoption]]
- [[private credits permanent capital is structurally exposed to AI disruption through insurance-company funding vehicles that channel policyholder savings into PE-backed software debt]]
- [[technology-driven deflation is categorically different from demand-driven deflation because falling production costs expand purchasing power and unlock new demand while falling demand creates contraction spirals]]
- [[white-collar displacement has lagged but deeper consumption impact than blue-collar because top-decile earners drive disproportionate consumer spending and their savings buffers mask the damage for quarters]]
- [[incomplete digitization insulates economies from AI displacement contagion because without standardized software systems AI has limited targets for automation and no private credit channel to transmit losses]]

## DeFi Infrastructure
- [[Omnipair enables permissionless margin trading on long-tail assets through a generalized AMM that combines constant-product swaps with isolated lending in a single oracle-less immutable pool]]
- [[dynamic performance-based token minting replaces fixed emission schedules by tying new token creation to measurable outcomes creating algorithmic meritocracy in token distribution]]
- [[ownership coin treasuries should be actively managed through buybacks and token sales as continuous capital calibration not treated as static war chests]]

## Demand Signals (referenced but not yet written)
These claims are referenced in the knowledge base but don't yet exist as standalone files. They represent gaps to fill as evidence accumulates:

- Teleocap permissionless capital formation platform (9 references)
- Devoted Health as first Living Capital target (7 references)
- STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant (6 references)
- MetaDAO Cayman SPC structure (5 references)
- MetaDAO three-layer legal hierarchy (3 references)
- MetaLex BORG structure (3 references)
- Legacy ICOs failed because team treasury control (3 references)
- Solomon Labs Marshall Islands DAO LLC path (2 references)
- Solana launchpad ecosystem stratification (1 reference)
- Avici as MetaDAO ecosystem project (1 reference)
- Ranger Finance Cayman SPC path (1 reference)
