diff --git a/entities/internet-finance/coal-establish-development-fund.md b/entities/internet-finance/coal-establish-development-fund.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd790221 --- /dev/null +++ b/entities/internet-finance/coal-establish-development-fund.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +type: entity +entity_type: decision_market +name: "COAL: Establish Development Fund?" +domain: internet-finance +status: failed +parent_entity: "coal" +platform: "futardio" +proposer: "AH7F2EPHXWhfF5yc7xnv1zPbwz3YqD6CtAqbCyE9dy7r" +proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/DhY2YrMde6BxiqCrqUieoKt5TYzRwf2KYE3J2RQyQc7U" +proposal_date: 2024-12-05 +resolution_date: 2024-12-08 +category: "treasury" +summary: "Proposal to allocate 4.2% of mining emissions to a development fund for protocol development, community rewards, and marketing" +tracked_by: rio +created: 2026-03-11 +--- + +# COAL: Establish Development Fund? + +## Summary +Proposal to establish a development fund through a 4.2% emissions allocation (472.5 COAL/day) to support protocol development, reward community contributions, and enable marketing initiatives. The allocation would increase total supply growth by 4.2% rather than reducing mining rewards. Failed after 3-day voting period. + +## Market Data +- **Outcome:** Failed +- **Proposer:** AH7F2EPHXWhfF5yc7xnv1zPbwz3YqD6CtAqbCyE9dy7r +- **Proposal Account:** DhY2YrMde6BxiqCrqUieoKt5TYzRwf2KYE3J2RQyQc7U +- **DAO Account:** 3LGGRzLrgwhEbEsNYBSTZc5MLve1bw3nDaHzzfJMQ1PG +- **Duration:** 2024-12-05 to 2024-12-08 (3 days) +- **Autocrat Version:** 0.3 + +## Proposal Details +- **Allocation Rate:** 4.2% of current mining emission rate +- **Daily Amount:** 472.5 COAL (from 11,250 base rate) +- **Distribution:** Weekly claims to DAO-managed multisig +- **Transparency:** Public tracking of all expenditures +- **Impact on Miners:** No reduction in mining rewards; increases total supply growth by 4.2% + +## Significance +This proposal represents a critical governance decision for COAL's transition from pure fair-launch model to sustainable development funding. The failure indicates community preference for maintaining the original zero-allocation tokenomics despite the project's stated need for development resources. The rejection suggests either: +1. Strong miner resistance to any dilution of their share +2. Lack of trust in DAO treasury management +3. Preference for alternative funding mechanisms + +The 4.2% rate was designed to avoid reducing mining rewards, but the proposal still failed, suggesting the community values supply scarcity over development funding. + +## Context +COAL launched in August 2024 as a fair-launch project with no pre-mine or team allocation. This proposal was the first attempt to establish ongoing development funding through emissions rather than one-time treasury actions. + +## Relationship to KB +- [[futardio]] - governance platform +- [[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]] - mechanism used diff --git a/entities/internet-finance/coal.md b/entities/internet-finance/coal.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f020b9f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/entities/internet-finance/coal.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +type: entity +entity_type: company +name: "COAL" +domain: internet-finance +status: active +tracked_by: rio +created: 2026-03-11 +--- + +# COAL + +## Overview +COAL is a fair-launch cryptocurrency project on Solana that launched in August 2024 with no pre-mine or team allocation. The project uses futarchy governance through Futardio for protocol decisions and operates with a mining-based token distribution model. + +## Timeline +- **2024-08** — Fair launch with zero pre-mine or team allocation +- **2024-12-05** — [[coal-establish-development-fund]] proposed: 4.2% emissions allocation for development fund +- **2024-12-08** — Development fund proposal failed, maintaining pure fair-launch tokenomics + +## Relationship to KB +- [[futardio]] - governance platform +- [[MetaDAO]] - futarchy infrastructure provider diff --git a/inbox/archive/2024-12-05-futardio-proposal-establish-development-fund.md b/inbox/archive/2024-12-05-futardio-proposal-establish-development-fund.md index 6538a0d3..4f927bfe 100644 --- a/inbox/archive/2024-12-05-futardio-proposal-establish-development-fund.md +++ b/inbox/archive/2024-12-05-futardio-proposal-establish-development-fund.md @@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/DhY2YrMde6BxiqCrqUieoKt5TYzRwf2KYE3J2RQyQc7 date: 2024-12-05 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 +extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5" +extraction_notes: "Factual governance proposal data. Created decision_market entity for the proposal and parent entity for COAL project. No extractable claims - this is pure event data documenting a failed treasury allocation vote. The proposal's failure is significant for understanding community preferences around fair-launch tokenomics vs development funding, but doesn't contain novel mechanism insights or arguable propositions beyond the documented outcome." --- ## Proposal Details @@ -71,3 +75,11 @@ If the emission rate were adjusted to 10,000 \$COAL/day: - Autocrat version: 0.3 - Completed: 2024-12-08 - Ended: 2024-12-08 + + +## Key Facts +- COAL launched August 2024 as fair-launch project with no pre-mine +- Development fund proposal: 4.2% emissions allocation = 472.5 COAL/day +- Proposal failed 2024-12-08 after 3-day voting period +- Current mining emission rate: 11,250 COAL/day +- DAO account: 3LGGRzLrgwhEbEsNYBSTZc5MLve1bw3nDaHzzfJMQ1PG