---
type: entity
entity_type: decision_market
name: "Drift: Allocate 50,000 DRIFT to fund the Drift AI Agent request for grant"
domain: internet-finance
status: passed
parent_entity: "[[drift]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "proPaC9tVZEsmgDtNhx15e7nSpoojtPD3H9h4GqSqB2"
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/A74H61YqwsbwRczuErbUyh9kqG1A7ZbiE1W5hWZmT9fm"
proposal_date: 2024-12-19
resolution_date: 2024-12-22
category: "grants"
summary: "Drift DAO approved 50,000 DRIFT allocation for AI agent grants program with decision committee oversight"
key_metrics:
  grant_pool: "50,000 DRIFT"
  grant_range: "10,000-20,000 DRIFT per project"
  application_deadline: "2025-03-01"
  target_areas: "trading agents, yield agents, information agents, social agents"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# Drift: Allocate 50,000 DRIFT to fund the Drift AI Agent request for grant

## Summary
Drift DAO approved creation of an AI Agents Grants program with 50,000 DRIFT allocated for distribution to teams building autonomous agents that interact with Drift's DeFi infrastructure. The program targets trading agents, yield management agents, information agents, and social agents, with individual grants ranging from 10,000-20,000 DRIFT based on proposal quality and milestone completion.

## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Passed
- **Proposer:** proPaC9tVZEsmgDtNhx15e7nSpoojtPD3H9h4GqSqB2
- **Platform:** Futardio (futarchy-governed decision)
- **Resolution:** 2024-12-22 (3 days after proposal)

## Program Structure

**Grant Allocation:**
- Total pool: 50,000 DRIFT
- Individual grants: 10,000-20,000 DRIFT per project
- Distribution: Upon milestone completion
- Unused funds: Return to foundation after March 1, 2025

**Target Categories:**
1. **Trading Agents** — Autonomous position management on Drift Perps
2. **Yield Agents** — Multi-strategy capital optimization across Drift products
3. **Information Agents** — On-chain data surfacing and awareness building
4. **Social Agents** — Community engagement and brand amplification

**Agent Definition Criteria:**
- Operates with autonomy to manage assets
- Utilizes multiple strategies or tools
- Exists off-chain but interacts on-chain
- Can communicate with and execute objectives for an agent manager

**Governance:**
- Decision committee reviews all applications
- Rolling approval process through March 1, 2025
- Committee decisions are final
- KYC may be required for regulatory compliance

## Significance
This represents Drift's strategic positioning in the emerging AI x DeFi sector, using grants to bootstrap an ecosystem of autonomous agents that increase protocol utilization. The futarchy-governed approval signals market confidence that AI agent development will drive value to DRIFT token holders. The program's broad agent categories (trading, yield, information, social) suggest Drift views AI agents as infrastructure for multiple use cases beyond just automated trading.

The decision committee structure centralizes grant evaluation while the futarchy mechanism decentralizes the funding decision itself — a hybrid governance approach where market participants approve the program but domain experts select recipients.

## Relationship to KB
- [[drift]] — parent entity, governance decision
- [[futardio]] — platform used for futarchy-governed approval
- [[metadao]] — futarchy implementation provider
- [[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]] — governance mechanism used
