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+type: entity
+entity_type: decision_market
+name: "MetaDAO: Hire Robin Hanson as Advisor"
+domain: internet-finance
+status: passed
+tracked_by: rio
+created: 2026-03-11
+last_updated: 2026-03-11
+parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
+platform: "futardio"
+proposer: "Proph3t"
+proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/AnCu4QFDmoGpebfAM8Aa7kViouAk1JW6LJCJJer6ELBF"
+proposal_date: 2025-02-10
+resolution_date: 2025-02-13
+category: hiring
+summary: "Hire Robin Hanson (inventor of futarchy) as advisor — 0.1% supply (20.9 META) vested over 2 years for mechanism design and strategy"
+tags: ["futarchy", "robin-hanson", "advisory", "mechanism-design"]
+---
+
+# MetaDAO: Hire Robin Hanson as Advisor
+
+## Summary
+Proposal to hire Robin Hanson — the economist who originally proposed futarchy in 2000 — as an advisor. Scope: mechanism design and strategy advice, co-authoring blog posts and whitepapers on new futarchic mechanisms (specifically mentioning a "shared liquidity AMM" design). Compensation: 0.1% of supply (20.9 META) vested over 2 years. Early termination allowed by Robin, MetaDAO, or Proph3t and Kollan unanimously.
+
+## Market Data
+- **Outcome:** Passed (2025-02-13)
+- **Autocrat version:** 0.3
+- **Key participants:** Proph3t (proposer), Robin Hanson (advisor)
+
+## Significance
+The futarchy mechanism's inventor becoming an advisor to its most advanced implementation creates a theory-practice feedback loop. Hanson's insights have already influenced concrete product design — the proposal mentions a "shared liquidity AMM" where META/USDC liquidity can be used in both pMETA/pUSDC and fMETA/fUSDC conditional markets, addressing a key capital inefficiency problem.
+
+The compensation terms (0.1% of supply) are modest relative to founder allocations (10% each for Proph3t and Nallok), appropriate for an advisory role. The 2-year vest with early termination clause is standard advisory structure — another example of futarchy-governed DAOs adopting traditional corporate governance patterns for operational decisions.
+
+This is also the first time a major academic figure (GMU economics professor, >10,000 citations) has been hired through futarchic governance, lending institutional credibility to the mechanism.
+
+## Relationship to KB
+- [[metadao]] — advisory hire
+- [[shared-liquidity-amms-could-solve-futarchy-capital-inefficiency-by-routing-base-pair-deposits-into-all-derived-conditional-token-markets]] — Hanson-Proph3t collaboration product
+- [[futarchy implementations must simplify theoretical mechanisms for production adoption because original designs include impractical elements that academics tolerate but users reject]] — Hanson bridges theory and implementation
+- [[futarchy-governed DAOs converge on traditional corporate governance scaffolding for treasury operations because market mechanisms alone cannot provide operational security and legal compliance]] — standard advisory terms within futarchy governance
+
+---
+
+Relevant Entities:
+- [[metadao]] — parent organization
+- [[proph3t]] — proposer
+
+Topics:
+- [[internet finance and decision markets]]