---
type: decision
entity_type: decision_market
name: "MetaDAO: Develop Futarchy as a Service (FaaS)"
domain: internet-finance
status: passed
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
last_updated: 2026-03-11
parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "0xNallok"
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/D9pGGmG2rCJ5BXzbDoct7EcQL6F6A57azqYHdpWJL9Cc"
proposal_date: 2024-03-13
resolution_date: 2024-03-19
category: strategy
summary: "Fund $96K to build futarchy-as-a-service platform enabling other Solana DAOs to adopt futarchic governance"
tags: ["futarchy", "faas", "product-development", "solana-daos"]
---

# MetaDAO: Develop Futarchy as a Service (FaaS)

## Summary
Nallok proposed building a Realms-like UI enabling any Solana DAO to create and participate in futarchic governance. Budget: $96K for 2 months ($40K USDC from treasury + 342 META to convert). Team: 1 smart contract engineer, 1 auditor, 2 UI/UX, 1 data/services developer, 1 project manager. This was MetaDAO's first product expansion beyond self-governance — the pivot from "futarchy for MetaDAO" to "futarchy for everyone."

## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Passed (2024-03-19)
- **Autocrat version:** 0.1
- **Key participants:** 0xNallok (entrepreneur/PM), Proph3t (multisig), Nico (multisig)

## Significance
This proposal marks MetaDAO's strategic pivot from a governance experiment to a platform business. The financial projections (5-100 DAO customers, $50-$500/proposal in taker fees, $50-$1,000/month licensing) reveal early business model thinking. The explicit goal of "vertical integration" and "owning the whole stack" shows Proph3t and Nallok's approach to defensibility.

Particularly notable: the monetization model (taker fees + licensing + consulting) anticipated the Futarchic AMM revenue model that would later become MetaDAO's primary income source. The FaaS concept directly led to Drift, Dean's List, and Future adopting futarchy.

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] — strategic pivot to platform
- [[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]] — FaaS was the first step toward this
- [[futarchy-governed DAOs converge on traditional corporate governance scaffolding for treasury operations because market mechanisms alone cannot provide operational security and legal compliance]] — multisig custody of funds alongside futarchy approval
- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]] — FaaS aimed to reduce adoption friction

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Relevant Entities:
- [[metadao]] — parent organization
- [[nallok]] — project entrepreneur
- [[proph3t]] — multisig member
- [[deans-list]] — early FaaS adopter
- [[drift]] — early FaaS adopter

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