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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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description: "Retaining DAO tax in stablecoins while distributing governance tokens to contributors hedges against token price volatility and ensures treasury stability independent of token performance"
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confidence: likely
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source: "The Dean's List DAO proposal via futard.io, 2024-07-18"
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created: 2024-07-18
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# DAO treasury stablecoin retention hedges governance token price volatility in revenue-share models
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When DAOs generate revenue in stablecoins and distribute governance tokens to contributors, retaining the DAO tax portion in stablecoins rather than converting to governance tokens creates a hedge against token price volatility. This structure separates treasury stability from token performance.
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The Dean's List DAO model demonstrates this: clients pay in USDC, the DAO retains its tax (20%) in USDC for treasury stability, and uses the remaining 80% to purchase DEAN tokens for distribution to citizens. This means:
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1. **Treasury stability**: The DAO's operational reserves remain in stablecoins, unaffected by DEAN price fluctuations
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2. **Contributor exposure**: Citizens receive DEAN tokens, giving them upside exposure to token appreciation
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3. **Asymmetric risk**: The DAO bears no token price risk on its retained portion, while contributors bear full price risk on their compensation
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The proposal explicitly states: "The DAO tax will remain in USDC to hedge against $DEAN price fluctuations."
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This architecture is particularly relevant for DAOs with:
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- Revenue-generating operations (not purely speculative treasuries)
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- Token-based contributor compensation
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- Need for stable operational funding independent of token price
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## Evidence
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From The Dean's List DAO proposal:
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- "The proposed model for The Dean's List DAO involves continuing to charge clients in USDC and using the collected USDC to purchase $DEAN tokens"
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- "The DAO tax will remain in USDC to hedge against $DEAN price fluctuations"
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- "500 $USDC goes to the treasury" (retained as stablecoin)
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- "2000 $USDC are used for purchasing $DEAN tokens" (converted for distribution)
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This creates a split treasury: stablecoin reserves for operations, token reserves for contributor payments.
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## Relationship to Existing Mechanisms
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This inverts the typical structure from [[ownership-coin-treasuries-should-be-actively-managed-through-buybacks-and-token-sales-as-continuous-capital-calibration-not-treated-as-static-war-chests.md]]: instead of the DAO holding tokens and distributing stablecoins, it holds stablecoins and distributes tokens. This shifts price risk from the organization to contributors.
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The model assumes contributors prefer token exposure (for upside) over stablecoin certainty, which may not hold if:
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- Token price is declining
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- Contributors need immediate liquidity for expenses
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- Token liquidity is insufficient for large sells
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Relevant Notes:
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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.md]]
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- [[MetaDAOs-futarchy-implementation-shows-limited-trading-volume-in-uncontested-decisions.md]]
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- [[domains/internet-finance/_map]]
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type: claim
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domain: internet-finance
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description: "The Dean's List DAO's model of charging clients in USDC and using proceeds to buy DEAN tokens creates net positive price pressure when the DAO tax rate exceeds the percentage of citizens who sell their DEAN payments"
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confidence: experimental
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source: "The Dean's List DAO proposal via futard.io, 2024-07-18"
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created: 2024-07-18
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# The Dean's List DAO USDC-to-DEAN buyback model creates net positive price pressure when DAO tax exceeds citizen sell rate
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The Dean's List DAO implemented an economic model where clients pay in USDC, the DAO uses those proceeds to purchase DEAN tokens, and distributes DEAN to citizens as payment while retaining the DAO tax in USDC. This structure creates asymmetric buy/sell pressure: if the DAO retains 20% as tax and citizens sell 80% of their DEAN payments, then buys exceed sells by the tax percentage (20% in this example).
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The proposal provides a worked example: for a 2,500 USDC dApp review with 20% DAO tax, 500 USDC goes to treasury and 2,000 USDC purchases DEAN tokens. If citizens sell 80% of received DEAN, the net effect is 2,000 USDC of buy pressure against 1,600 USDC equivalent of sell pressure, creating 400 USDC net positive pressure per transaction cycle.
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The model projects this would increase FDV from $337,074 to $355,028 (5.33% increase) under the scenario of 6 dApp reviews per month at 2,500 USDC each, assuming 24% price increase from buy pressure partially offset by 15% decrease from sell pressure.
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This mechanism only works when:
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1. The DAO tax rate exceeds the citizen sell rate
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2. Revenue flow is consistent enough to create sustained buy pressure
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3. The treasury retains the tax in stablecoins rather than tokens (hedging against price volatility)
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## Evidence
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From the proposal:
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- "DAO Tax @ 20%, Cost of dApp review 2500 $USDC"
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- "500 $USDC goes to the treasury"
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- "2000 $USDC are used for purchasing $DEAN tokens"
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- "80% of the paid people decide to sell their $DEAN to pay their bills"
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- "This way we create volume (3600 $USDC volume) and the price action is always positive. (in our case buys exceeded sells by 20%)"
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The proposal claims this creates "higher lows on each cycle" because buy pressure (100% of payment amount minus tax) exceeds sell pressure (citizen sell rate × payment amount minus tax).
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## Critical Assumptions
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This model assumes:
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- Citizens cannot anticipate and front-run DAO purchases
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- Market depth is sufficient to absorb buy pressure without excessive slippage
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- The 80% sell rate remains stable (if citizens hold more, sell pressure decreases but so does their liquidity)
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- Revenue remains consistent (irregular income creates irregular buy pressure)
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- Price impact estimates (24% increase from buys, 15% decrease from sells) are modeling assumptions not empirical measurements
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Actual market impact depends on liquidity, order book depth, and trading behavior. The proposal has not yet demonstrated this mechanism in production across multiple cycles.
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[MetaDAOs-futarchy-implementation-shows-limited-trading-volume-in-uncontested-decisions.md]]
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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.md]]
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- [[domains/internet-finance/_map]]
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type: entity
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entity_type: decision_market
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name: "IslandDAO: Enhancing The Dean's List DAO Economic Model"
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domain: internet-finance
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status: passed
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parent_entity: "[[deans-list]]"
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platform: "futardio"
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proposer: "IslandDAO"
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proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/5c2XSWQ9rVPge2Umoz1yenZcAwRaQS5bC4i4w87B1WUp"
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proposal_date: 2024-07-18
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resolution_date: 2024-07-22
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category: "mechanism"
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summary: "Proposal to charge clients in USDC, use proceeds to buy DEAN tokens, distribute DEAN to citizens, and retain DAO tax in USDC"
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tracked_by: rio
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created: 2026-03-11
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# IslandDAO: Enhancing The Dean's List DAO Economic Model
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## Summary
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This proposal restructured The Dean's List DAO's economic model to create sustained buy pressure on the DEAN token. Instead of paying contributors in USDC directly, the DAO would use client payments to purchase DEAN tokens on the open market and distribute those tokens to citizens, while retaining the DAO tax (20%) in USDC for treasury stability. The model projected a 5.33% FDV increase based on 6 dApp reviews per month at 2,500 USDC each.
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## Market Data
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- **Outcome:** Passed
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- **Proposer:** IslandDAO
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- **Resolution:** 2024-07-22 (4 days after proposal)
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- **Proposal Account:** 5c2XSWQ9rVPge2Umoz1yenZcAwRaQS5bC4i4w87B1WUp
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## Mechanism Design
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The proposal introduced an asymmetric buy/sell pressure model:
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1. **Revenue flow:** Clients pay in USDC
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2. **DAO tax:** 20% retained in USDC (treasury hedge)
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3. **Token purchases:** 80% used to buy DEAN on open market
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4. **Distribution:** DEAN tokens distributed to citizens as payment
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5. **Net pressure:** If citizens sell 80% of received DEAN, buys exceed sells by the tax rate (20%)
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The model explicitly hedges treasury stability by keeping the DAO tax in stablecoins while exposing contributors to token price upside.
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## Significance
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This proposal demonstrates futarchy pricing a complex economic mechanism with multiple variables: buy pressure, sell pressure, treasury stability, and contributor incentives. The detailed financial modeling (including price impact estimates and FDV projections) suggests sophisticated market participants engaged with the decision. The proposal's passage indicates the futarchy markets evaluated the mechanism favorably, though trading volume data is not available.
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The model represents a novel approach to DAO tokenomics: using operational revenue to create sustained token buy pressure while maintaining treasury stability in stablecoins.
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[deans-list]] - parent entity, economic model restructuring
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- [[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]] - governance mechanism used
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- [[token economics replacing management fees and carried interest creates natural meritocracy in investment governance]] - related tokenomics pattern
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## Timeline
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- **2024-12-19** — [[deans-list-implement-3-week-vesting]] passed: 3-week linear vesting for DAO payments to reduce sell pressure from 80% immediate liquidation to 33% weekly rate, projected 15%-25% valuation increase
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- **2024-07-18** — [[deans-list-enhance-economic-model]] passed: Restructured economic model to charge clients in USDC, use proceeds to buy DEAN tokens for citizen distribution, retain 20% DAO tax in USDC for treasury stability. Projected 5.33% FDV increase from asymmetric buy/sell pressure.
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- **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
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- **2026-03-04** — [[seekervault]] fundraise launched targeting $75,000, closed next day with only $1,186 (1.6% of target) in refunding status
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- **2024-07-18** — [[deans-list-enhance-economic-model]] passed: The Dean's List DAO used Futardio to approve economic model restructuring with detailed FDV impact modeling (5.33% projected increase), demonstrating futarchy pricing complex mechanism changes with multi-variable effects.
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## Competitive Position
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- **Unique mechanism**: Only launch platform with futarchy-governed accountability and treasury return guarantees
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- **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."
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date: 2024-07-18
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domain: internet-finance
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format: data
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status: unprocessed
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status: processed
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tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana, governance]
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event_type: proposal
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processed_by: rio
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processed_date: 2026-03-11
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claims_extracted: ["deans-list-usdc-to-dean-buyback-model-creates-net-positive-price-pressure-when-dao-tax-exceeds-citizen-sell-rate.md", "dao-treasury-stablecoin-retention-hedges-governance-token-price-volatility-in-revenue-share-models.md"]
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enrichments_applied: ["futarchy-can-override-its-own-prior-decisions-when-new-evidence-emerges-because-conditional-markets-re-evaluate-proposals-against-current-information-not-historical-commitments.md"]
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extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
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extraction_notes: "Extracted two mechanism design claims about DAO tokenomics: (1) asymmetric buy/sell pressure model where DAO tax rate creates net positive pressure when it exceeds citizen sell rate, and (2) treasury stablecoin retention as hedge against governance token volatility. Created decision_market entity for the proposal itself and updated parent entities (Dean's List, Futardio) with timeline entries. Enriched two existing futarchy claims with evidence of mechanism pricing complexity. The proposal contains detailed financial modeling but these are projections not empirical results, hence experimental confidence."
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## Proposal Details
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- Autocrat version: 0.3
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- Completed: 2024-07-22
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- Ended: 2024-07-22
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## Key Facts
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- The Dean's List DAO FDV was $337,074 with 100M DEAN circulating supply at $0.00337 per token (2024-07-18)
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- The Dean's List DAO daily trading volume was $500 (2024-07-18)
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- The Dean's List DAO charges 2,500 USDC per dApp review with 20% DAO tax
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- Proposal 5c2XSWQ9rVPge2Umoz1yenZcAwRaQS5bC4i4w87B1WUp passed 2024-07-22 after 4-day futarchy period
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