---
type: source
source_type: telegram
title: "Telegram: @m3taversal — futairdbot-what-is-metadao"
author: "@m3taversal"
url: ""
date: 2026-03-30
domain: internet-finance
format: conversation
status: unprocessed
priority: medium
intake_tier: undirected
rationale: "what is metaDAO?"
proposed_by: "@m3taversal"
tags: [telegram, ownership-community]
---

## Conversation

**@m3taversal:**
@FutAIrdBot what is metaDAO?

**Rio (response):**
MetaDAO is a futarchy-governed organization on Solana. Instead of token voting, proposals pass or fail based on conditional prediction markets. When someone submits a proposal, two markets spin up: one prices META assuming the proposal passes, the other prices it assuming it fails. If the pass market trades higher after a three-day TWAP window, the proposal executes. If not, it dies. The market literally decides.

In practice it functions as both a DAO and a launchpad. The permissioned side runs curated ICOs where projects raise capital through what they call "unruggable" token launches governed by these conditional markets. There's also futard.io for permissionless launches, kept under a separate brand to manage reputational risk.

Treasury sits around $9.5M USDC. META is trading at roughly $2.95 right now. They've passed proposals ranging from services agreements and contributor compensation to funding Robin Hanson's academic research on futarchy mechanics at George Mason. The operational burn is about $1.4M annualized through Organization Technology LLC, a US entity that handles payments while MetaDAO LLC retains all IP.

The core bet is that markets aggregate information better than votes. Small group of sophisticated traders tends to dominate the markets, and volume is thin on uncontested decisions, but the mechanism has held up on the proposals that actually matter.

CONFIDENCE: 0.85

## Agent Notes
**Why archived:** Tagged exchange in ownership community.
**Rationale from contributor:** what is metaDAO?
**Intake tier:** undirected — standard processing
**Triage:** Conversation may contain [CLAIM], [ENTITY], or [EVIDENCE] for extraction.
