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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ created: 2026-03-11
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# MetaDAO: Appoint Nallok and Proph3t Benevolent Dictators for Three Months
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## Summary
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This proposal appointed Proph3t and Nallok as Benevolent Dictators For 3 Months (BDF3M) from proposal finalization through June 30, 2024, to accelerate MetaDAO's execution velocity. The role included authority over retroactive compensation (December 2023 - March 2024), ongoing business operations, project management, and contributor compensation. The proposal requested 1,015 META and 100,000 USDC to cover seven months of compensation (four retroactive, three forward-looking).
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This proposal appointed Proph3t and Nallok as Benevolent Dictators For 3 Months (BDF3M) from proposal finalization through June 30, 2024, to accelerate MetaDAO's execution speed. The appointment included authority over retroactive compensation (December 2023 - March 2024), ongoing business operations, project management, and contributor compensation. The proposal requested 1,015 META and 100,000 USDC to cover seven months total (four retroactive, three forward-looking), averaging 145 META and $14,000 per month.
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## Market Data
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- **Outcome:** Passed
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@ -28,13 +28,12 @@ This proposal appointed Proph3t and Nallok as Benevolent Dictators For 3 Months
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- **Completed:** 2024-03-31
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## Significance
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This proposal represented a critical governance transition for MetaDAO, explicitly acknowledging that "the current proposal process is too slow and costly" for startup-speed execution. The proposers estimated that failure would decrease MetaDAO's probability of success by more than 20%, framing this as an emergency measure to bridge the gap until futarchy could function autonomously. The decision consolidated operational authority outside the futarchy mechanism itself, creating a temporary hierarchy to solve the cold-start problem of governance market liquidity.
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This proposal represented a critical governance transition for MetaDAO, acknowledging that the futarchy mechanism itself was "too slow and costly" for operational decisions at that stage. The proposers estimated that failure would decrease MetaDAO's probability of success by more than 20%, indicating high stakes. The appointment consolidated decision-making authority outside the proposal process while the team worked to improve the futarchy mechanism itself—a pragmatic acknowledgment of bootstrapping challenges in futarchy-governed organizations.
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The scope included exceptional authority to make code license grants and steer the off-chain proposal process, effectively creating a dual governance structure where strategic decisions remained with the dictators while futarchy continued to operate for other proposals.
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The proposal established OKRs including completing 10 GitHub issues per week and handling retroactive compensation within one week of passage. It also granted authority for exceptional use grants of MetaDAO's code licenses and noted that META would likely be issued in 5-year locked form.
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[metadao]] - governance decision establishing temporary centralized leadership
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- [[proph3t]] - appointed as co-dictator
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- [[nallok]] - appointed as co-dictator
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- [[MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions]] - this proposal addresses the execution bottleneck that limited volume creates
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- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]] - temporary dictator model as response to adoption friction
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- [[metadao]] - governance decision establishing interim leadership structure
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- [[proph3t]] - appointed as co-leader
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- [[nallok]] - appointed as co-leader
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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]] - the mechanism this proposal temporarily bypassed for operational decisions
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