decisions/internet-finance/metadao-otc-trade-ben-hawkins.md

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 **Connections:**
 - This is the primary empirical evidence cited in [[decision markets make majority theft unprofitable through conditional token arbitrage]] — the first production proof that the conditional token arbitrage mechanism works
 - metadao-otc-trade-ben-hawkins-2 — Hawkins came back with a second attempt ($100K, Proposal 8, also failed). Two consecutive failures from the same actor is strong evidence
-- [[futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders]] — Hawkins's experience confirms the theoretical claim
+- futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders — Hawkins's experience confirms the theoretical claim
 - The $33.33/META valuation was well below the contemporaneous ~$695 spot price seen in Proposal 8 a few days later, making this an obviously extractive deal — yet the mechanism still needed to reject it through market pricing, not human judgment
 
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 - [[metadao]] — parent entity
 - metadao-otc-trade-ben-hawkins-2 — second attempt ($100K, also failed)
 - [[decision markets make majority theft unprofitable through conditional token arbitrage]] — this is the primary empirical evidence
-- [[futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders]] — Hawkins quote confirms
+- futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders — Hawkins quote confirms
 - [[ben-hawkins]] — proposer entity