clay: extract claims from 2025-12-00-colosseum-stamp-introduction
- What: 3 new claims on STAMP investment instrument mechanics - Why: Colosseum STAMP article provides first detailed spec of the instrument referenced-but-unwritten in MetaDAO overview claim - Connections: fills gap in existing KB where [[STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant...]] was wiki-linked but the file did not exist; links to futarchy-governed liquidation, time-based vesting, and regulatory separation claims Pentagon-Agent: Rio <2EA8DBCB-A29B-43E8-B726-45E571A1F3C8>
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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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description: "Colosseum's STAMP instrument hard-caps private investor claims at 20% of total supply, well below the 30-50% typical in crypto raises, with team allocation milestone-gated at 10-40% — ensuring more than 40% of supply reaches the public at ICO"
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confidence: experimental
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source: "rio, based on Colosseum 'Introducing the Colosseum STAMP' (Dec 2025)"
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created: 2026-03-11
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- "Colosseum STAMP announcement (Dec 2025) — 20% investor cap, team allocation spec"
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- "Industry comparison: typical crypto investor allocation 30-50% of supply"
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- "A 20% investor cap may reduce capital available to early-stage teams relative to traditional crypto raises, disadvantaging projects that need large seed rounds"
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- "Milestone-based team allocation of 10-40% could still concentrate supply with insiders if milestones are set by the team"
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# STAMP caps investor allocation at 20 percent of total token supply to structurally preserve community majority ownership from ICO launch day
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Most crypto token launches allocate 30-50% of total supply to private investors, creating a supply overhang that concentrates economic power with insiders and reduces the public's proportional claim. STAMP hard-caps investor allocation at 20% of total token supply — a deliberate mechanism design choice, not a legal requirement.
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The supply architecture under STAMP:
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- **Investor allocation:** maximum 20% of total supply
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- **Team allocation:** 10-40% of total supply, milestone-based (performance-unlocked, not time-based)
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- **Remaining supply:** available to ICO participants
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With investors capped at 20% and team allocation milestone-gated (meaning it vests only against verifiable achievements, not calendar time), the majority of token supply is structurally directed toward the public. This is the mechanism by which ownership coins achieve "majority community ownership from day one" — it is specified in the instrument, not aspirational.
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The 20% cap is notable against the industry baseline. Colosseum itself acknowledged that typical crypto projects allocate 30-50% to investors. The 20% cap is aggressive in the direction of community ownership, reducing the insider supply overhang that creates selling pressure and information asymmetry.
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The team's milestone-based allocation is the other half of the mechanism. Since [[time-based token vesting is hedgeable making standard lockups meaningless as alignment mechanisms because investors can short-sell to neutralize lockup exposure while appearing locked]], milestone-based vesting is structurally stronger than time-based because the team cannot receive tokens without demonstrating measurable progress. Calendar lockups can be hedged away; milestone gates cannot.
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Together: investors capped at 20%, team earning between 10-40% against milestones, and remaining supply going public. At the low end of team allocation, ICO participants could receive 60%+ of supply. This is the supply-side basis for the "unruggable" claim — it is harder to extract value when you don't control the majority of supply.
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## Evidence
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- Colosseum STAMP announcement (Dec 2025): "Investor receives predetermined allocation capped at 20% of total supply"
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- Team allocation: "Milestone-based, 10-40% of total supply"
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- Remaining supply: "Available to ICO participants"
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- Industry comparison: "most crypto projects give 30-50% to investors" — Colosseum agent notes, Dec 2025
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## Challenges
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- A 20% investor cap constrains fundraising relative to traditional crypto raises — teams needing large pre-launch capital may find STAMP structurally limiting
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- Milestone definitions are set by teams in collaboration with Colosseum — if milestones are not independently verifiable, milestone-based vesting approaches calendar-based vesting in practice
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- The 24-month linear unlock on investor allocation (once ICO goes live) is still subject to hedging — the enforcement advantage is DAO governance, not the lockup
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant by treating the token as the sole economic unit and adding futarchy-governed treasury spending allowances that prevent the extraction problem that killed legacy ICOs]] — the 20% cap is one mechanism within the broader STAMP design
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- [[time-based token vesting is hedgeable making standard lockups meaningless as alignment mechanisms because investors can short-sell to neutralize lockup exposure while appearing locked]] — milestone-based team allocation is the supply-side response to this problem
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- [[ownership coin treasuries should be actively managed through buybacks and token sales as continuous capital calibration not treated as static war chests]] — community majority ownership from launch makes active treasury management a genuine collective decision rather than insider capital management
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- [[futarchy-governed liquidation is the enforcement mechanism that makes unruggable ICOs credible because investors can force full treasury return when teams materially misrepresent]] — community majority ownership strengthens investors' ability to pass liquidation proposals since they hold proportionally more supply
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- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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description: "STAMP requires existing SAFEs and convertible notes to be terminated and replaced upon signing, using a Cayman SPC migration path to convert equity cap tables to single-instrument token ownership — preventing dual claim structures from coexisting"
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confidence: experimental
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source: "rio, based on Colosseum 'Introducing the Colosseum STAMP' (Dec 2025)"
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created: 2026-03-11
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- "Colosseum STAMP announcement (Dec 2025) — mandatory SAFE termination, Cayman entity migration path"
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challenged_by:
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- "Mandatory SAFE termination requires consent from all existing investors — may face resistance from VCs holding SAFEs who prefer equity optionality"
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- "Clean break thesis depends on Cayman SPC legal validity in relevant jurisdictions — cross-border enforceability is untested"
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# STAMP mandates termination of prior SAFEs upon signing creating a legal clean break from equity to token ownership that enables cap table consolidation for existing startups migrating to token-based structures
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The SAFE + token warrant hybrid persists in crypto startups because it allows teams to avoid the binary choice between equity and token: raise on a SAFE, tack on a token warrant, retain optionality. This dual structure creates downstream complications — competing claim hierarchies, unclear priority on liquidation, and unresolved questions about what happens to equity when a token launches.
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STAMP's mandatory termination clause resolves this by forcing a clean break. When an existing startup signs a STAMP, "prior SAFEs/notes terminated and replaced upon signing." No coexistence. No optionality. The token becomes the sole economic instrument, and all prior equity claims convert or expire.
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The operational mechanism is the Cayman SPC structure. Colosseum's STAMP process requires startups to set up a Cayman Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) or Segregated Portfolio (SP) through the MetaDAO interface. For existing startups, this Cayman entity enables migration from traditional equity to token-based ownership. The Cayman structure provides the legal chassis that makes cap table consolidation possible — equity holders that don't sign STAMPs are excluded from the token economy.
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The forced consolidation has two effects. First, it simplifies the capital structure — one instrument class, one claim hierarchy, no equity/token ambiguity. Second, it creates a forcing function for existing investors: participate in the token migration or be excluded from the upside. This is the "bold" aspect of mandatory termination — it is a clean break, not a gradual transition.
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The migration path matters because most viable crypto startups already have SAFEs outstanding when they consider a futarchy-governed launch. The alternative — launching a token without resolving existing equity — creates exactly the dual claim structure that STAMP is designed to prevent. STAMP's mandatory termination is therefore not just a term in the contract but a structural prerequisite for the token-as-sole-economic-unit design.
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Since [[STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant by treating the token as the sole economic unit and adding futarchy-governed treasury spending allowances that prevent the extraction problem that killed legacy ICOs]], the mandatory termination clause is the mechanism by which the "sole economic unit" property is achieved for startups with prior financing history.
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## Evidence
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- Colosseum STAMP announcement (Dec 2025): "Prior SAFEs/notes terminated and replaced upon signing"
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- Migration mechanism: "Cayman entity enables migration from traditional equity to token-based ownership. Clean cap table consolidation."
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- Startup onboarding: "Startup sets up Cayman SPC/SP entity through MetaDAO interface"
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- For existing startups: Cayman entity provides legal chassis for equity → token conversion
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## Challenges
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- Mandatory termination requires existing SAFE holders to consent — VCs with large SAFE positions and equity optionality may resist conversion, making STAMP adoption contingent on unanimous investor buy-in
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- The Cayman SPC structure adds legal overhead (entity formation, offshore domicile) that may deter smaller startups from adopting STAMP
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- "Clean break" depends on Cayman SPC legal validity and cross-border enforceability — untested in most jurisdictions
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- The forced binary choice (convert or be excluded) may create adversarial dynamics with early investors who preferred equity exposure
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant by treating the token as the sole economic unit and adding futarchy-governed treasury spending allowances that prevent the extraction problem that killed legacy ICOs]] — mandatory SAFE termination is the enforcement mechanism for the sole economic unit design
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- [[STAMP caps investor allocation at 20 percent of total token supply to structurally preserve community majority ownership from ICO launch day]] — termination and consolidation are prerequisites for the 20% cap to mean anything as a supply constraint
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- [[futarchy-based fundraising creates regulatory separation because there are no beneficial owners and investment decisions emerge from market forces not centralized control]] — eliminating equity claims reduces the risk that SAFE holders are identified as beneficial owners, supporting the regulatory separation argument
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- [[Ooki DAO proved that DAOs without legal wrappers face general partnership liability making entity structure a prerequisite for any futarchy-governed vehicle]] — the Cayman SPC in STAMP is the legal wrapper that addresses this requirement
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- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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description: "Colosseum's STAMP instrument (developed with Orrick) eliminates the dual equity-token structure by making the token the only economic claim and restricting pre-ICO funds to product development while transferring remaining capital to DAO-controlled treasury at launch"
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confidence: experimental
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source: "rio, based on Colosseum 'Introducing the Colosseum STAMP' (Dec 2025)"
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created: 2026-03-11
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- "Colosseum STAMP announcement (Dec 2025) — Orrick partnership, full mechanism spec"
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- "MetaDAO ICO ecosystem — futarchy governance constraining treasury post-ICO"
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challenged_by:
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- "No legal opinion published on STAMP's securities classification — Orrick is mentioned but no opinion released, weakening claims of legal defensibility"
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- "Cayman SPC structure suggests offshore domicile, which may not provide strong US regulatory cover"
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secondary_domains: [mechanisms]
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# STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant by treating the token as the sole economic unit and adding futarchy-governed treasury spending allowances that prevent the extraction problem that killed legacy ICOs
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The SAFE + token warrant hybrid — the de facto standard for crypto startup fundraising — is structurally insufficient for futarchy-governed token launches because it creates competing economic claims. The Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) left the equity question unaddressed, and the SAFE + token warrant hybrid that followed treats equity and token as parallel instruments, producing "subpar outcomes for crypto startups" according to Colosseum and Orrick.
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STAMP (Simple Token Agreement, Market Protected) resolves this by treating the token as the sole economic unit. There is no equity layer. There is no warrant layer. Investors receive a predetermined token allocation capped at 20% of total supply with a 24-month linear unlock once the ICO goes live. The investment instrument and the economic claim are the same thing.
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The extraction prevention mechanism is structural. Pre-ICO funds sent to the startup wallet are restricted to product development and operating expenses — no discretionary spending, no founder payouts. When the ICO executes, the remaining balance transfers not to the team but to the DAO-controlled treasury, subject to futarchy governance from that point forward. Since [[futarchy-governed liquidation is the enforcement mechanism that makes unruggable ICOs credible because investors can force full treasury return when teams materially misrepresent]], the DAO treasury transfer is not cosmetic — it puts treasury spending inside the enforcement boundary where investors can act.
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This directly addresses what killed legacy ICOs. In 2017-2018 ICOs, teams raised capital and retained discretionary treasury control. As token prices rose, the incentive to dump accelerated: the faster you sold, the more you captured before others did. STAMP removes discretionary treasury access at the ICO moment — the transition from private to public is also the transition from team-controlled to market-governed.
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Fixed allocations "cannot be diluted or reinterpreted later" — this addresses a secondary extraction vector where teams renegotiate token allocation post-raise. STAMP makes the investor's claim legally enforceable during the private-to-public transition.
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The instrument is designed as an open-source ecosystem standard ("not just for Colosseum") and was developed in partnership with Orrick, a top-tier tech law firm.
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## Evidence
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- Colosseum "Introducing the Colosseum STAMP" (Dec 2025) — full mechanism spec: Cayman SPC/SP entity setup, fund restriction, DAO treasury transfer, 20% investor cap, 24-month linear unlock
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- SAFE + token warrant hybrid described as "not sufficient for the next era" of crypto investing — Colosseum, Dec 2025
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- SAFT: prior attempt that "left equity question unaddressed"
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- Dual equity + token structure: produces "subpar outcomes for crypto startups" — Colosseum + Orrick
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- MetaDAO Q4 2025: 6 ICOs raised $18.7M — ecosystem using STAMP-based raises
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## Challenges
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- No published legal opinion on STAMP's securities classification — Orrick partnership is asserted but no opinion released
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- Cayman SPC offshore structure may not provide strong US regulatory defensibility
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- The claim that dual structures produce "subpar outcomes" is asserted by the party selling STAMP as the replacement — selection bias in the evidence
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[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]] — the platform where STAMP operates in production
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- [[futarchy-governed liquidation is the enforcement mechanism that makes unruggable ICOs credible because investors can force full treasury return when teams materially misrepresent]] — the enforcement mechanism that the DAO treasury transfer activates
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- [[time-based token vesting is hedgeable making standard lockups meaningless as alignment mechanisms because investors can short-sell to neutralize lockup exposure while appearing locked]] — STAMP's 24-month unlock is subject to this critique; the enforcement advantage of STAMP is the DAO treasury governance, not the lockup itself
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- [[futarchy-based fundraising creates regulatory separation because there are no beneficial owners and investment decisions emerge from market forces not centralized control]] — STAMP's token-as-sole-economic-unit design supports this regulatory argument by eliminating equity that would imply beneficial ownership
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- [[ownership coin treasuries should be actively managed through buybacks and token sales as continuous capital calibration not treated as static war chests]] — the DAO-controlled treasury that STAMP creates is the operational substrate for active treasury management
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- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
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domain: internet-finance
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secondary_domains: []
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format: article
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status: null-result
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status: processed
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processed_by: rio
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processed_date: 2026-03-11
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claims_extracted:
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- "STAMP replaces SAFE plus token warrant by treating the token as the sole economic unit and adding futarchy-governed treasury spending allowances that prevent the extraction problem that killed legacy ICOs"
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- "STAMP caps investor allocation at 20 percent of total token supply to structurally preserve community majority ownership from ICO launch day"
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- "STAMP mandates termination of prior SAFEs upon signing creating a legal clean break from equity to token ownership that enables cap table consolidation for existing startups migrating to token-based structures"
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enrichments:
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- "MetaDAO overview claim references STAMP but the STAMP claim file did not exist — now created"
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priority: high
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tags: [stamp, investment-instrument, metadao, ownership-coins, safe, legal-structure, colosseum]
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processed_by: rio
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