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# MetaDAO Omnibus Proposal — Migrate and Update
**Proposal ID:** Bzoap95gjbokTaiEqwknccktfNSvkPe4ZbAdcJF1yiEK
**Date:** March 23, 2026
**Status:** Active (84% pass probability as of March 23)
**Trading Volume:** $408K
**Category:** Mechanism upgrade + legal infrastructure
## Overview
Comprehensive governance proposal combining three components:
1. Migration of MetaDAO's autocrat program to newer version (from v0.5.0)
2. Integration of Squads v4.0 (AGPLv3) multisig infrastructure
3. Updates to legal documents
## Market Signal
- **Pass probability:** 84%
- **Volume:** $408K
- **Community consensus:** High (strong pass signal with substantial capital commitment)
## Technical Context
**Current versions (pre-migration):**
- autocrat v0.5.0 (DAO governance coordinator)
- launchpad v0.7.0
- conditional_vault v0.4
**New infrastructure:**
- Squads v4.0 multisig integration (recent GitHub development as of March 18, 2026)
- Suggests separation of futarchy-governed treasury decisions from multisig-controlled operational execution
## Historical Pattern
MetaDAO's autocrat migration history shows consistent pattern of addressing operational issues discovered post-deployment:
- v0.1 → v0.2 migrations (2023-12-03, 2024-03-28) addressed manipulation surface area, liquidity mechanics, and proposal process design
- Current migration likely addresses issues discovered in v0.5 deployment cycle
## Significance
**Structural governance evolution:**
- Squads integration may create cleaner separation between DAO treasury (futarchy-governed) and operational execution (multisig-controlled)
- Addresses "execution velocity" problem that BDF3M (Session 11) temporarily solved through human delegation
- Legal document updates may relate to entity structuring or regulatory compliance
**Mechanism improvement:**
- Every autocrat program migration in MetaDAO's history has been a governance improvement
- High pass probability (84%) with substantial volume ($408K) indicates community consensus that changes are beneficial
## Limitations
**Information gaps:**
- Full proposal text inaccessible (MetaDAO governance interface returning 429 errors)
- Specific technical changes in new program version unknown
- Legal document update scope unclear
- Whether migration addresses documented mechanism vulnerabilities (manipulation resistance at thin liquidity, off-chain fundamentals problem, Unruggable ICO post-TGE gap) unknown
## Related Context
- @01Resolved (ownership coins/decision markets analytics platform) flagged this proposal as significant
- Represents most active recent governance event in MetaDAO ecosystem
- Follows pattern of iterative mechanism improvement through community-validated upgrades
## Sources
- MetaDAO governance proposal: metadao.fi/projects/metadao/proposal/Bzoap95gjbokTaiEqwknccktfNSvkPe4ZbAdcJF1yiEK
- @m3taversal Telegram conversation, March 23, 2026
- MetaDAO GitHub repository (autocrat v0.5.0, Squads v4.0 integration, commit activity March 18, 2026)
- @01Resolved coverage
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**Note:** This decision file serves as a placeholder pending full proposal text access. The 84% pass probability and $408K volume establish this as a significant governance event warranting documentation even with incomplete information.

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type: claim
domain: internet-finance
description: Configurable proposal slots with three-day default compress feedback loops in futarchy governance
confidence: experimental
source: MetaDAO Autocrat v0.1 proposal, December 2023
created: 2026-03-15
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# MetaDAO Autocrat v0.1 reduces proposal duration to three days enabling faster governance iteration
The Autocrat v0.1 upgrade introduces configurable slots per proposal with a default of 3 days, explicitly designed to "allow for quicker feedback loops." This represents a significant reduction from previous implementations and addresses a key friction point in futarchy adoption: the time cost of decision-making. The proposal passed and migrated 990,000 META, 10,025 USDC, and 5.5 SOL to the new program, demonstrating community acceptance of faster iteration cycles. The architectural change makes proposal duration a parameter rather than a constant, allowing MetaDAO to tune the speed-quality tradeoff based on empirical results. This matters because governance mechanism adoption depends on matching decision velocity to organizational needs—too slow and participants route around the system, too fast and markets cannot aggregate information effectively.
### Additional Evidence (confirm)
*Source: [[2025-10-15-futardio-proposal-lets-get-futarded]] | Added: 2026-03-15*
Coal's v0.6 parameters set proposal length at 3 days with 1-day TWAP delay, confirming this as the standard configuration for Autocrat v0.6 implementations. The combination of 1-day TWAP delay plus 3-day proposal window creates a 4-day total decision cycle.
### Auto-enrichment (near-duplicate conversion, similarity=1.00)
*Source: PR #1922 — "metadao autocrat v01 reduces proposal duration to three days enabling faster governance iteration"*
*Auto-converted by substantive fixer. Review: revert if this evidence doesn't belong here.*
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``` ```
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Relevant Notes:
- 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
- futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements.md
Topics:
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## Content ## Content
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PRIMARY CONNECTION: Mechanism improvement pattern (autocrat migration history); Belief #3 (trustless joint ownership mechanism) PRIMARY CONNECTION: Mechanism improvement pattern (autocrat migration history); Belief #3 (trustless joint ownership mechanism)
WHY ARCHIVED: Confirms a significant governance event with high community consensus; creates a placeholder for the full proposal text when accessible WHY ARCHIVED: Confirms a significant governance event with high community consensus; creates a placeholder for the full proposal text when accessible
EXTRACTION HINT: HOLD — don't extract until proposal text is accessible. This archive establishes the provenance; a second extractor with direct access should complete the extraction. EXTRACTION HINT: HOLD — don't extract until proposal text is accessible. This archive establishes the provenance; a second extractor with direct access should complete the extraction.
## Key Facts
- MetaDAO omnibus proposal reached 84% pass probability with $408K traded as of March 23, 2026
- MetaDAO current on-chain program versions: autocrat v0.5.0, launchpad v0.7.0, conditional_vault v0.4
- Squads v4.0 (AGPLv3) multisig integration added to MetaDAO GitHub as of March 18, 2026
- Proposal URL: metadao.fi/projects/metadao/proposal/Bzoap95gjbokTaiEqwknccktfNSvkPe4ZbAdcJF1yiEK
- @01Resolved flagged this proposal for coverage