diff --git a/entities/internet-finance/metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md b/entities/internet-finance/metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f398348 --- /dev/null +++ b/entities/internet-finance/metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +type: entity +entity_type: decision_market +name: "MetaDAO: Burn 99.3% of META in Treasury" +domain: internet-finance +status: passed +tracked_by: rio +created: 2026-03-11 +last_updated: 2026-03-11 +parent_entity: "[[metadao]]" +platform: "futardio" +proposer: "doctor.sol & rar3" +proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/ELwCkHt1U9VBpUFJ7qGoVMatEwLSr1HYj9q9t8JQ1NcU" +proposal_date: 2024-03-03 +resolution_date: 2024-03-08 +category: treasury +summary: "Burn ~979,000 of 982,464 treasury-held META tokens to reduce FDV and attract investors" +tags: ["futarchy", "tokenomics", "treasury-management", "meta-token"] +--- + +# MetaDAO: Burn 99.3% of META in Treasury + +## Summary +Proposal to burn approximately 99.3% of treasury-held META tokens (~979,000 of 982,464) to significantly reduce the Fully Diluted Valuation. Passed on Autocrat v0.1. The high FDV was perceived as discouraging investors and limiting participation in the futarchy experiment. Post-burn treasury: ~4,500 META valued at ~$4M plus ~$2M in META-USDC LP at the time ($880/META). Total META supply after burn: ~20,885. + +## Market Data +- **Outcome:** Passed (2024-03-08) +- **Autocrat version:** 0.1 +- **Key participants:** doctor.sol & rar3 (authors), Proph3t (executor) + +## Significance +One of the most consequential early MetaDAO governance decisions. The burn fundamentally changed MetaDAO's token economics — eliminating the treasury's ability to pay in META and forcing future operations to use USDC or market-purchase META. This created a natural scarcity signal but also meant the DAO would eventually need mintable tokens (which the proposal explicitly noted as a future possibility). The burn set the stage for the later token split and elastic supply debates. + +The proposal also reveals early futarchy dynamics: community members (not founders) proposed a radical tokenomics change, and the market approved it. This is a concrete example of futarchy enabling non-founder governance proposals with material treasury impact. + +## Relationship to KB +- [[metadao]] — governance decision, treasury management +- [[futarchy enables trustless joint ownership by forcing dissenters to be bought out through pass markets]] — demonstrates market-governed treasury decisions +- [[ownership coin treasuries should be actively managed through buybacks and token sales as continuous capital calibration not treated as static war chests]] — burn as extreme active management +- [[futarchy-daos-require-mintable-governance-tokens-because-fixed-supply-treasuries-exhaust-without-issuance-authority-forcing-disruptive-token-architecture-migrations]] — this burn directly created the conditions that made mintable tokens necessary + +--- + +Relevant Entities: +- [[metadao]] — parent organization +- [[proph3t]] — executor + +Topics: +- [[internet finance and decision markets]]