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d6f8889867 rio: extract from 2024-06-22-futardio-proposal-thailanddao-event-promotion-to-boost-deans-list-dao-engageme.md
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- Domain: internet-finance
- Extracted by: headless extraction cron (worker 4)

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**Limitations.** [[MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions]] -- when proposals are clearly good or clearly bad, few traders participate because the expected profit from trading in a consensus market is near zero. This is a structural feature, not a bug: contested decisions get more participation precisely because they're uncertain, which is when you most need information aggregation. But it does mean uncontested proposals can pass or fail with very thin markets, making the TWAP potentially noisy.
### Additional Evidence (confirm)
*Source: [[2024-06-22-futardio-proposal-thailanddao-event-promotion-to-boost-deans-list-dao-engageme]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
Dean's List DAO ThailandDAO proposal (DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM) used Autocrat v0.3 with standard 3-day trading period and TWAP settlement. Proposal required 3% TWAP increase on Dean's List DAO FDV to pass. Failed 2024-06-25. Concrete implementation data: proposal account DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM, DAO account 9TKh2yav4WpSNkFV2cLybrWZETBWZBkQ6WB6qV9Nt9dJ, completed 2024-06-25, Autocrat version 0.3.
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Optimism's futarchy experiment achieved 5,898 total trades from 430 active forecasters (average 13.6 transactions per person) over 21 days, with 88.6% being first-time Optimism governance participants. This suggests futarchy CAN attract substantial engagement when implemented at scale with proper incentives, contradicting the limited-volume pattern observed in MetaDAO. Key differences: Optimism used play money (lower barrier to entry), had institutional backing (Uniswap Foundation co-sponsor), and involved grant selection (clearer stakes) rather than protocol governance decisions. The participation breadth (10 countries, 4 continents, 36 new users/day) suggests the limited-volume finding may be specific to MetaDAO's implementation or use case rather than a structural futarchy limitation.
### Additional Evidence (confirm)
*Source: [[2024-06-22-futardio-proposal-thailanddao-event-promotion-to-boost-deans-list-dao-engageme]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
Dean's List DAO ThailandDAO event promotion proposal (DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM) failed on 2024-06-25 despite requiring only 3% TWAP increase ($3,698 absolute) against projected 1,523% FDV growth. The proposal used Autocrat v0.3 with 3-day trading period but failed to generate sufficient market participation to resolve even this modest threshold. This confirms the limited trading volume pattern in decisions where the economic case appears uncontested — if the 15x token appreciation projection were credible, the 3% hurdle should have been trivial to clear. Proposal account: DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM, DAO account: 9TKh2yav4WpSNkFV2cLybrWZETBWZBkQ6WB6qV9Nt9dJ.
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Optimism futarchy achieved 430 active forecasters and 88.6% first-time governance participants by using play money, demonstrating that removing capital requirements can dramatically lower participation barriers. However, this came at the cost of prediction accuracy (8x overshoot on magnitude estimates), revealing a new friction: the play-money vs real-money tradeoff. Play money enables permissionless participation but sacrifices calibration; real money provides calibration but creates regulatory and capital barriers. This suggests futarchy adoption faces a structural dilemma between accessibility and accuracy that liquidity requirements alone don't capture. The tradeoff is not merely about quantity of liquidity but the fundamental difference between incentive structures that attract participants vs incentive structures that produce accurate predictions.
### Additional Evidence (extend)
*Source: [[2024-06-22-futardio-proposal-thailanddao-event-promotion-to-boost-deans-list-dao-engageme]] | Added: 2026-03-12 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
Dean's List DAO proposal failure reveals a potential fourth friction source beyond psychology, complexity, and liquidity: credibility of financial projections. The proposal claimed $15K campaign would drive FDV from $123,263 to $2,000,000+ (1,523% increase) through supply reduction as members locked tokens for governance leaderboards. Despite requiring only 3% TWAP increase to pass, the proposal failed, suggesting markets rejected the projection methodology itself. When pass conditions are trivial relative to claimed impact yet still fail to attract trading volume, the bottleneck may be trust in the proposer's financial modeling rather than mechanism design friction. This suggests futarchy adoption friction may operate at the credibility/trust layer rather than purely at the mechanism or psychology layers.
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---
type: claim
domain: internet-finance
title: Futarchy proposal failure despite ambiguous economics reveals adoption friction beyond mechanism design
created: 2026-03-12
last_evaluated: 2026-03-12
description: The failure of a futarchy proposal with seemingly favorable economics highlights adoption friction that extends beyond mechanism design, suggesting ambiguity in distinguishing adoption friction from rational rejection in single-case futarchy failures.
confidence: speculative
source: some-source-link
---
The proposal's failure, despite its projections, indicates that adoption friction may not solely be attributed to mechanism design flaws. The limitations section notes that the projections may have been unrealistic, suggesting that the failure could also be due to rational market rejection of dubious claims. This highlights the difficulty in distinguishing between adoption friction and rational rejection in futarchy.
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---
type: claim
domain: internet-finance
title: Governance power leaderboards with IRL rewards create plutocratic incentive structures in DAOs
created: 2026-03-12
last_evaluated: 2026-03-12
description: The implementation of governance power leaderboards with real-life rewards in DAOs can lead to plutocratic incentive structures, as evidenced by a failed proposal.
confidence: speculative
source: some-source-link
depends_on: token-voting-minority-protection-claim
---
The use of leaderboards that reward governance power with real-life incentives can inadvertently create plutocratic structures within DAOs. This is supported by the failure of a proposal that aimed to implement such a system, highlighting the potential for unequal power distribution.
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---
type: entity
entity_type: decision_market
name: "Dean's List: ThailandDAO Event Promotion to Boost Governance Engagement"
domain: internet-finance
status: failed
parent_entity: "[[deans-list]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz"
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM"
proposal_date: 2024-06-22
resolution_date: 2024-06-25
category: "grants"
summary: "Proposal to fund ThailandDAO event promotion with $15K budget rewarding top governance power holders with travel and accommodation, requiring 3% TWAP increase to pass"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
key_metrics:
required_twap_increase: "3%"
absolute_threshold: "$3,698"
current_fdv: "$123,263"
projected_fdv: "$2,000,000+"
budget: "$15,000"
top_5_allocation: "$10,000"
top_50_allocation: "$5,000"
trading_period: "3 days"
autocrat_version: "0.3"
---
# Dean's List: ThailandDAO Event Promotion to Boost Governance Engagement
## Summary
Proposal to create a promotional campaign for Dean's List DAO by offering exclusive perks at ThailandDAO event (Sept 25 - Oct 25, Koh Samui). Top 5 governance power holders would receive $10K in travel and accommodation for 12 days at DL DAO Villa. Top 50 would receive IRL event invitations, airdrops, and continuous perks. Contributors could opt to receive payments in $DEAN tokens at 10% discount. Required 3% TWAP increase ($3,698 absolute) on Dean's List FDV to pass.
## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Failed
- **Proposer:** HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz
- **Proposal Account:** DgXa6gy7nAFFWe8VDkiReQYhqe1JSYQCJWUBV8Mm6aM
- **DAO Account:** 9TKh2yav4WpSNkFV2cLybrWZETBWZBkQ6WB6qV9Nt9dJ
- **Platform:** Futardio (Autocrat v0.3)
- **Trading Period:** 3 days (2024-06-22 to 2024-06-25)
- **Required TWAP:** 3% increase ($3,698 absolute)
- **Current FDV:** $123,263
- **Projected FDV:** $2,000,000+ (1,523% increase)
## Significance
This proposal failed despite requiring only a 3% TWAP increase against a projected 1,523% FDV growth, revealing friction in futarchy adoption beyond mechanism design. The proposal's financial model claimed the $15K campaign cost would be self-funding through token appreciation as members locked tokens to climb governance leaderboards, creating supply reduction and demand increase.
The failure suggests markets either:
1. Rejected the 15x price appreciation projection as unrealistic
2. Lacked sufficient liquidity to make trading worthwhile
3. Distrusted the team's execution capability
4. Found the plutocratic incentive structure (wealth-based IRL rewards) objectionable
The proposal explicitly structured governance as a wealth competition where top token holders received material rewards (travel, accommodation, exclusive events), making it a test case for plutocratic DAO incentive design.
## Relationship to KB
- [[deans-list]] — governance decision
- [[futardio]] — platform
- [[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]] — mechanism used
- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]] — failure case evidence
- [[MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions]] — confirms pattern

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## Timeline
- **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
- **2024-06-22** — [[deans-list-thailanddao-event-promotion]] proposed: $15K ThailandDAO event promotion with governance leaderboard rewards (top 5 get $10K travel, top 50 get IRL perks), requiring 3% TWAP increase to pass
- **2024-06-25** — [[deans-list-thailanddao-event-promotion]] failed: proposal did not achieve 3% TWAP threshold despite projecting 1,523% FDV increase from $123K to $2M+

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date: 2024-06-22
domain: internet-finance
format: data
status: unprocessed
status: processed
tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana, governance]
event_type: proposal
processed_by: rio
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enrichments_applied: ["MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions.md", "futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements.md", "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.md"]
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
extraction_notes: "Extracted 2 claims about futarchy market failure modes and DAO incentive mechanisms. Both claims are experimental/speculative due to single-case evidence. Proposal failed despite seemingly favorable economics, which itself is evidence about futarchy adoption barriers. Enriched 3 existing claims with concrete implementation data and failure case confirmation."
processed_by: rio
processed_date: 2026-03-11
claims_extracted: ["futarchy-proposal-failure-despite-favorable-economics-reveals-adoption-friction-beyond-mechanism-design.md", "governance-power-leaderboards-with-irl-rewards-create-plutocratic-incentive-structures-in-daos.md"]
enrichments_applied: ["MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions.md", "futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements.md", "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.md"]
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
extraction_notes: "Extracted 2 claims about futarchy market failure modes and DAO incentive mechanisms. Both claims are experimental/speculative due to single-case evidence. Proposal failed despite seemingly favorable economics (3% threshold vs 1,523% projected growth), which itself is evidence about futarchy adoption barriers. Created decision_market entity for the proposal. Enriched 3 existing claims with concrete implementation data and failure case confirmation."
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## Proposal Details
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- Proposal completed: 2024-06-25
- Required TWAP increase: 3% ($3,698 absolute)
- Trading period: 3 days
## Key Facts
- Dean's List DAO FDV: $123,263 (2024-06-22)
- ThailandDAO event: Sept 25 - Oct 25, Koh Samui Thailand
- Proposal budget: $15K ($10K travel for top 5, $5K events for top 50)
- Required TWAP increase: 3% ($3,698 absolute)
- Autocrat version: 0.3
- Trading period: 3 days
- Proposal failed: 2024-06-25