rio: extract from 2026-02-25-futardio-launch-rock-game.md

- Source: inbox/archive/2026-02-25-futardio-launch-rock-game.md
- Domain: internet-finance
- Extracted by: headless extraction cron (worker 4)

Pentagon-Agent: Rio <HEADLESS>

domains/internet-finance/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.md

@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ Futardio cult launch (2026-03-03 to 2026-03-04) demonstrates MetaDAO's platform
 
 (challenge) Areal's failed Futardio launch ($11,654 raised of $50K target, REFUNDING status) demonstrates that futarchy-governed fundraising does not guarantee capital formation success. The mechanism provides credible exit guarantees through market-governed liquidation and governance quality through conditional markets, but market participants still evaluate project fundamentals and team credibility. Futarchy reduces rug risk but does not eliminate market skepticism of unproven business models or early-stage teams.
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-02-25-futardio-launch-rock-game]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
+
+(extend) Rock Game demonstrates futarchy governance applied to game economies, raising $272 on a $10 target (27.2x oversubscription) through MetaDAO's platform. The launch used DAO LLC IP assignment, performance-gated team tokens, and treasury governance from day one. The project explicitly positions these mechanisms as responses to play-to-earn's historical failures around founder control and misaligned incentives. This extends MetaDAO's use cases beyond DeFi and meme coins into gaming/entertainment verticals, though no actual futarchy governance decisions or gameplay have been demonstrated yet.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

domains/internet-finance/performance-unlocked-team-tokens-with-price-multiple-triggers-and-twap-settlement-create-long-term-alignment-without-initial-dilution.md

@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ This structure is untested in practice. Key risks:
 - 18-month cliff may be too long for early-stage projects with high burn rates, creating team retention risk
 - No precedent for whether TWAP-based triggers actually prevent manipulation in low-liquidity token markets
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2026-02-25-futardio-launch-rock-game]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
+
+(confirm) Rock Game implements performance-gated founder unlocks where team rewards scale with token performance rather than time-based vesting. The ICO pitch states: "Founder unlocks are performance-gated, meaning the team benefits only as the game grows and the token appreciates." This is positioned as a structural alignment mechanism that distinguishes the project from play-to-earn predecessors where "insiders dumped allocations" after time-based unlocks. Rock Game is the first documented implementation of this mechanism in a game economy context.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

domains/internet-finance/rock-game-demonstrates-futarchy-governed-game-economy-launch-with-performance-gated-team-tokens.md

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+---
+type: claim
+domain: internet-finance
+description: "Rock Game raised $272 on $10 target through MetaDAO's unruggable ICO with treasury governance and IP ownership enforced by DAO LLC structure"
+confidence: experimental
+source: "Rock Game ICO pitch on futard.io, 2026-02-25"
+created: 2026-03-11
+---
+
+# Rock Game demonstrates futarchy-governed game economy launch with performance-gated team tokens
+
+Rock Game is a battle royale on Solana that raised through [[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|MetaDAO]]'s unruggable ICO platform, applying futarchy governance to play-to-earn token economics. The project raised $272 against a $10 target (27.2x oversubscription), completing on 2026-02-26.
+
+The launch structure implements several mechanisms designed to address play-to-earn's historical failures:
+
+**Treasury governance from day one:** All raise proceeds are locked in an on-chain treasury governed by futarchy, where prediction markets determine capital deployment rather than founder discretion. This removes the unilateral control that allowed previous play-to-earn projects to misallocate or extract capital.
+
+**IP ownership through DAO LLC:** The game's intellectual property is assigned to a DAO LLC, giving token holders legal ownership over the protocol's code, assets, and infrastructure. This prevents founders from extracting or redirecting the game's core value. The pitch states: "The DAO LLC structure ensures the game's code, assets, and infrastructure cannot be extracted or redirected by a private entity."
+
+**Performance-gated founder unlocks:** Team token vesting is tied to token price performance rather than time-based schedules. Founders benefit only as the game grows and the token appreciates, creating structural alignment between team incentives and token holder returns. The pitch explicitly states: "Founder unlocks are performance-gated, meaning the team benefits only as the game grows and the token appreciates."
+
+**High-float fair launch:** The ICO used a single price point with no seed rounds, insider allocations, or privileged early tranches. Every participant entered at the same price, eliminating the discount-driven sell pressure that plagued earlier play-to-earn launches.
+
+The project's pitch explicitly frames these mechanisms as responses to play-to-earn's credibility crisis: "The category was defined by projects that printed tokens without restraint, rewarded early insiders disproportionately, and collapsed under the weight of unsustainable emission schedules and misaligned teams."
+
+**Limitations:** Whether futarchy governance can actually sustain a competitive game economy remains unproven. The battle royale format creates natural deflationary pressure (not everyone wins), but the mechanism's ability to manage token emissions, tournament structures, and prize pool mechanics through prediction markets has no track record. The 27x oversubscription suggests speculative interest in the governance model and MetaDAO's brand, but does not validate the game's long-term economic sustainability or whether futarchy will outperform traditional governance for game economy decisions.
+
+## Evidence
+- Rock Game raised $272 on $10 target through futard.io (2026-02-25 to 2026-02-26)
+- Launch used MetaDAO's unruggable ICO structure with DAO LLC IP assignment
+- Team tokens are performance-gated rather than time-vested
+- ICO pitch explicitly positions futarchy as solution to play-to-earn's governance failures
+- No evidence of actual gameplay, token economy operation, or futarchy governance decisions at time of launch
+
+## Challenges
+- No evidence of actual gameplay or token economy operation
+- Oversubscription may reflect futarchy speculation and MetaDAO platform credibility rather than game quality assessment
+- Battle royale deflationary logic is asserted but not demonstrated
+- No track record of futarchy successfully governing game economy parameters
+
+---
+
+Relevant Notes:
+- [[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]]
+- [[performance-unlocked-team-tokens-with-price-multiple-triggers-and-twap-settlement-create-long-term-alignment-without-initial-dilution]]
+- [[futarchy-governed-meme-coins-attract-speculative-capital-at-scale]]
+- [[ownership coins primary value proposition is investor protection not governance quality because anti-rug enforcement through market-governed liquidation creates credible exit guarantees that no amount of decision optimization can match]]
+- [[Ooki DAO proved that DAOs without legal wrappers face general partnership liability making entity structure a prerequisite for any futarchy-governed vehicle]]
+
+Topics:
+- [[domains/internet-finance/_map]]
+- [[core/mechanisms/_map]]

entities/internet-finance/futardio.md

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ MetaDAO's token launch platform. Implements "unruggable ICOs" — permissionless
 
 - **2026-03-07** — Areal DAO launch: $50K target, raised $11,654 (23.3%), REFUNDING status by 2026-03-08 — first documented failed futarchy-governed fundraise on platform
 - **2026-03-04** — [[seekervault]] fundraise launched targeting $75,000, closed next day with only $1,186 (1.6% of target) in refunding status
+- **2026-02-25** — [[rock-game]] launched ICO on futard.io, raising $272 on $10 target (27.2x oversubscription) by 2026-02-26
 ## Competitive Position
 - **Unique mechanism**: Only launch platform with futarchy-governed accountability and treasury return guarantees
 - **vs pump.fun**: pump.fun is memecoin launch (zero accountability, pure speculation). Futardio is ownership coin launch (futarchy governance, treasury enforcement). Different categories despite both being "launch platforms."

entities/internet-finance/rock-game.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: company
+name: "Rock Game"
+domain: internet-finance
+status: active
+website: "https://joe.com"
+platform: "Solana"
+parent_entity: "[[futardio]]"
+key_metrics:
+  raise_target: "$10.00"
+  total_raised: "$272.00"
+  oversubscription_ratio: "27.2x"
+  token_symbol: "3n6"
+  launch_date: "2026-02-25"
+  completion_date: "2026-02-26"
+tracked_by: rio
+created: 2026-03-11
+---
+
+# Rock Game
+
+Rock Game is a battle royale game built natively on Solana that raised through MetaDAO's unruggable ICO platform. The project positions itself as a response to play-to-earn's credibility crisis, using futarchy governance, DAO LLC IP ownership, and performance-gated team tokens to address the structural failures of earlier game economies.
+
+## Timeline
+- **2026-02-25** — ICO launch on futard.io with $10 funding target
+- **2026-02-26** — ICO completed with $272 raised (27.2x oversubscription)
+
+## Relationship to KB
+- [[MetaDAO]] — launched through MetaDAO's unruggable ICO platform
+- [[futardio]] — raised capital via futard.io
+- [[rock-game-demonstrates-futarchy-governed-game-economy-launch-with-performance-gated-team-tokens]] — demonstrates futarchy applied to game economies

inbox/archive/2026-02-25-futardio-launch-rock-game.md

@@ -6,9 +6,15 @@ url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/48z3txCwsHekZ7b43mPfoB3bMcZv3GpwX7B27x2PdmTA"
 date: 2026-02-25
 domain: internet-finance
 format: data
-status: unprocessed
+status: processed
 tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana]
 event_type: launch
+processed_by: rio
+processed_date: 2026-03-11
+claims_extracted: ["rock-game-demonstrates-futarchy-governed-game-economy-launch-with-performance-gated-team-tokens.md"]
+enrichments_applied: ["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.md", "performance-unlocked-team-tokens-with-price-multiple-triggers-and-twap-settlement-create-long-term-alignment-without-initial-dilution.md", "futarchy-governed-meme-coins-attract-speculative-capital-at-scale.md"]
+extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
+extraction_notes: "Single ICO launch event. Primary extraction is the governance mechanism application to game economies. Oversubscription ratio (27.2x) is notable but insufficient alone to claim futarchy validation for gaming. Classified as experimental confidence due to single-source, no operational track record. Enrichments focus on extending MetaDAO's use case range and confirming performance-gated token mechanisms."
 ---
 
 ## Launch Details
@@ -85,3 +91,10 @@ MetaDAO changes that. Raise proceeds are locked in an on-chain treasury governed
 - Total approved: $10.00
 - Closed: 2026-02-26
 - Completed: 2026-02-26
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Rock Game token mint: 3n6X4XRJHrkckqX21a5yJdSiGXXZo4MtEvVVsgSAmeta
+- Rock Game launch address: 48z3txCwsHekZ7b43mPfoB3bMcZv3GpwX7B27x2PdmTA
+- Rock Game website: https://joe.com
+- Rock Game ICO used MetaDAO v0.7