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type: entity
entity_type: person
name: "agrippa"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
role: "developer"
affiliations:
- "Solana Labs (Realms frontend lead, 2023-2024)"
- "MetaDAO (contributor)"
key_contributions:
- "Led development on Solana governance-ui (Realms)"
- "Created first conditional tokens vault on Solana (Precog Party, FTX grant-funded)"
- "Proposed multi-modal proposals for MetaDAO"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---
# agrippa
## Overview
agrippa is a Solana developer who led Realms frontend development at Solana Labs and built the first conditional tokens vault on Solana. He proposed expanding MetaDAO's futarchy implementation to support multi-option proposals in February 2024 (proposal failed). Background includes founding a high-school blockchain club in 2014, research at Cornell's Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Contracts, and attendance at a 2017 smart contract summit in China.
## Timeline
- **2014** — Founded one of the first high-school blockchain clubs globally
- **2017** — Invited to smart contract summit in China for Sybil resistance work
- **~2022** — Developed first conditional tokens vault on Solana (Precog Party, FTX grant-funded)
- **2023-2024** — Led development on governance-ui (Realms frontend) for Solana Labs
- **2024-02-20** — Proposed multi-modal proposals feature to MetaDAO for 200 META (failed)
- **2024-12** — Met Proph3t in Greece, discussed futarchy implementation
## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - proposed mechanism expansion
- 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 - contributed to conditional vault design review

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---
type: entity
entity_type: decision_market
name: "MetaDAO: Develop Multi-Option Proposals?"
domain: internet-finance
status: failed
parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "agrippa"
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/J7dWFgSSuMg3BNZBAKYp3AD5D2yuaaLUmyKqvxBZgHht"
proposal_date: 2024-02-20
resolution_date: 2024-02-25
category: "mechanism"
summary: "Proposal to develop multi-modal proposal functionality allowing multiple mutually-exclusive outcomes beyond binary pass/fail, compensated at 200 META across four milestones"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---
# MetaDAO: Develop Multi-Option Proposals?
## Summary
Proposal by agrippa to build multi-modal proposal functionality for MetaDAO, enabling decisions with N mutually-exclusive outcomes rather than just pass/fail. The feature would allow futarchic selection among alternatives (e.g., choosing contest winners from multiple applicants). Compensation requested: 200 META distributed across four development milestones, evaluated by a 5-member multisig.
## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Failed
- **Proposer:** agrippa (99dZcXhrYgEmHeMKAb9ezPaBqgMdg1RjCGSfHa7BeQEX)
- **Proposal Account:** J7dWFgSSuMg3BNZBAKYp3AD5D2yuaaLUmyKqvxBZgHht
- **Created:** 2024-02-20
- **Completed:** 2024-02-25
## Significance
This proposal represents a significant architectural expansion of MetaDAO's futarchy implementation. Multi-option proposals address a fundamental limitation: binary pass/fail cannot handle selection among alternatives, which is required for many governance decisions (hiring, grants, strategic choices). The proposer estimated this would add 12.1% value to MetaDAO by exponentially increasing decision-making bandwidth and providing a mechanism to reduce pork-barrel spending through mandatory draft stages where alternatives can be proposed.
The proposal failed despite strong technical rationale, suggesting either market skepticism about the value proposition, concerns about the proposer's ability to deliver, or insufficient liquidity/participation in the decision market.
## Technical Approach
The proposal outlined a from-scratch multi-modal conditional vault program with no hard limits on number of outcomes, requiring deep Solana/Anchor expertise. Four milestones: (1) immediate payment on passage, (2) conditional vault completion, (3) futarch integration, (4) frontend implementation. A 5-member multisig (Proph3t, DeanMachine, 0xNallok, LegalizeOnionFutures, sapphire) would evaluate milestone completion.
## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - governance mechanism expansion
- futarchy-implementations-must-simplify-theoretical-mechanisms-for-production-adoption-because-original-designs-include-impractical-elements-that-academics-tolerate-but-users-reject - demonstrates specific simplification need
- 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 - architectural evolution

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date: 2024-02-20
domain: internet-finance
format: data
status: unprocessed
status: processed
tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana, governance]
event_type: proposal
processed_by: rio
processed_date: 2026-03-11
enrichments_applied: ["futarchy-implementations-must-simplify-theoretical-mechanisms-for-production-adoption-because-original-designs-include-impractical-elements-that-academics-tolerate-but-users-reject.md", "futarchy-adoption-faces-friction-from-token-price-psychology-proposal-complexity-and-liquidity-requirements.md", "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.md"]
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
extraction_notes: "Failed proposal for multi-modal futarchy functionality. Primary extraction value is in enriching existing mechanism claims about futarchy implementation complexity and architectural evolution. Created decision_market entity and person entity for agrippa (significant contributor to Solana governance infrastructure). No novel claims warranted - the proposal articulates known challenges (complexity, liquidity) rather than introducing new theoretical insights."
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## Proposal Details
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- Autocrat version: 0.1
- Completed: 2024-02-25
- Ended: 2024-02-25
## Key Facts
- MetaDAO circulating supply was 14,416 META as of 2024-02-20
- Multi-modal proposal compensation requested: 200 META across 4 milestones (50 META each)
- Milestone evaluation multisig: Proph3t, DeanMachine, 0xNallok, LegalizeOnionFutures, sapphire (3/5 threshold)
- Multisig members compensated 2.5 META each upon passage
- Proposal account: J7dWFgSSuMg3BNZBAKYp3AD5D2yuaaLUmyKqvxBZgHht
- Proposer wallet: 99dZcXhrYgEmHeMKAb9ezPaBqgMdg1RjCGSfHa7BeQEX
- agrippa's estimated value add: 12.1% to MetaDAO (1744 META equivalent at time of proposal)