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Futardio cult launch (2026-03-03 to 2026-03-04) demonstrates MetaDAO's platform supports purely speculative meme coin launches, not just productive ventures. The project raised $11,402,898 against a $50,000 target in under 24 hours (22,706% oversubscription) with stated fund use for 'fan merch, token listings, private events/partys'—consumption rather than productive infrastructure. This extends MetaDAO's demonstrated use cases beyond productive infrastructure (Myco Realms mushroom farm, $125K) to governance-enhanced speculative tokens, suggesting futarchy's anti-rug mechanisms appeal across asset classes.
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### Additional Evidence (extend)
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*Source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]] | Added: 2026-03-11 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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BlockRock launched on MetaDAO's permissionless launchpad 2026-03-05 with $500K target as an 'ownership fund' with treasury-backed tokens. Launch structure: 95% tokens to ICO participants at same price, 5% to founding team with performance unlocks at 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, 32X TWAPs, plus $5K/month operational allowance. This demonstrates MetaDAO's infrastructure being used for liquid asset allocation strategy (not just VC deals like MtnCapital), expanding the platform's use cases beyond early-stage capital formation.
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domain: internet-finance
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created: 2026-03-05
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processed_date: 2026-03-05
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confidence: speculative
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source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]]
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AI agents as proposal generators could scale fund capability with compute, not headcount. This claim is speculative and based on the potential of AI to optimize proposal generation processes.
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- BlockRock's failed fundraise ($100 vs $500K target) highlights the speculative nature of AI-driven fund management.
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domain: internet-finance
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created: 2026-03-05
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processed_date: 2026-03-05
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confidence: speculative
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source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]]
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BlockRock inverts asset manager incentives through treasury-backed tokens and futarchy governance. This claim is speculative due to the failed launch and limited empirical data.
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- The MtnCapital liquidation provides valuable empirical data for the ownership-coins investor-protection claim.
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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.
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### Additional Evidence (extend)
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*Source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]] | Added: 2026-03-11 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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MtnCapital 'struggled to pass proposals' before winding down, suggesting proposal complexity or market pricing challenges in futarchy governance for VC deals. BlockRock Charter argues this was due to 'asymmetric information, long timelines, and binary outcomes' making VC deals 'difficult to price' in decision markets. This identifies liquidity/pricing as a specific friction point: illiquid assets create information asymmetries that prevent effective market pricing of proposals, causing governance to stall.
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domain: internet-finance
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created: 2026-03-05
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processed_date: 2026-03-05
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confidence: speculative
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source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]]
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Liquid asset allocation gives futarchy the pricing efficiency illiquid VC deals lack. This claim is speculative, given the limited success of similar models.
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- BlockRock's failed fundraise ($100 vs $500K target) and MtnCapital's liquidation highlight the challenges in implementing futarchy-based models.
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Futardio cult's $11.4M raise against $50,000 target with stated use of funds for 'fan merch, token listings, private events/partys' (consumption rather than productive investment) tests whether futarchy's anti-rug mechanisms provide credible investor protection even when projects explicitly commit to non-productive spending. The 22,706% oversubscription suggests market confidence in futarchy-governed liquidation rights extends beyond traditional venture scenarios to purely speculative assets where fundamental value analysis is minimal, indicating investor protection mechanisms are the primary value driver regardless of governance quality or asset type.
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### Additional Evidence (confirm)
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*Source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]] | Added: 2026-03-11 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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MtnCapital case provides empirical validation: when the VC-focused ownership fund wound down after struggling to pass proposals, 'holders received their proportional share of the treasury through the protocol's built-in liquidation mechanism. The system's guarantees worked as intended. Even in failure, no value is lost to extraction or mismanagement.' BlockRock Charter explicitly positions this as 'Proof of safety' demonstrating investor protection works even when governance fails to produce effective decisions.
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- 18-month cliff may be too long for early-stage projects with high burn rates, creating team retention risk
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- No precedent for whether TWAP-based triggers actually prevent manipulation in low-liquidity token markets
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### Additional Evidence (confirm)
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*Source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]] | Added: 2026-03-11 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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BlockRock implements exactly this structure: 5% team allocation unlocking at 3-month TWAPs of 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, and 32X the ICO price. This is positioned as alternative to traditional asset manager compensation (BlackRock's ~73% management fee revenue model) and creates alignment through price performance rather than AUM accumulation. The structure avoids initial dilution (5% held in escrow) while creating strong long-term incentives.
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The mechanism aligns with several core LivingIP principles. Since [[ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative]], the token structure ensures that value flows to those who generate it rather than to intermediaries who merely facilitate access. Since [[blind meritocratic voting forces independent thinking by hiding interim results while showing engagement]], combining token-locked voting with blind mechanisms could further strengthen decision quality. Since [[gamified contribution with ownership stakes aligns individual sharing with collective intelligence growth]], the token emissions function as the ownership stakes that incentivize high-quality participation. The result is an investment governance model where authority is earned through demonstrated judgment rather than granted through capital contribution alone.
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### Additional Evidence (extend)
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*Source: [[2026-03-05-futardio-launch-blockrock]] | Added: 2026-03-11 | Extractor: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5*
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BlockRock implements this through treasury-backed tokens where 'Minimal management fees are funded transparently from the treasury and adjustable via governance. No percentage-based skimming.' Contrasts with BlackRock earning ~73% revenue from management fees (regardless of performance) and only ~5% from performance fees. Team allocation is 5% with performance unlocks at price multiples (2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, 32X TWAPs) rather than time-based vesting, directly tying team compensation to token performance and creating alignment with token holders.
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title: "Futardio: BlockRock fundraise goes live"
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author: "futard.io"
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url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/J7CmLqfMLVq67swRQa6xCWn7VcyfpyhFSiQdJYNwkP8k"
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date: 2026-03-05
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domain: internet-finance
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format: data
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status: unprocessed
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tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana]
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event_type: launch
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type: archive
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processed_date: 2026-03-11
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- ai-agents-as-proposal-generators-could-scale-fund-capability-with-compute-not-headcount.md
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- blockrock-inverts-asset-manager-incentives-through-treasury-backed-tokens-and-futarchy-governance.md
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- liquid-asset-allocation-gives-futarchy-the-pricing-efficiency-illiquid-vc-deals-lack.md
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## Launch Details
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- Project: BlockRock
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- Description: Ownership Fund
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- Funding target: $500,000.00
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- Total committed: $100.00
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- Status: Refunding
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- Launch date: 2026-03-05
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- URL: https://www.futard.io/launch/J7CmLqfMLVq67swRQa6xCWn7VcyfpyhFSiQdJYNwkP8k
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## Team / Description
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# BlockRock Charter
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## BlackRock on the Blockchain
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*The ownership fund helping people grow wealth with confidence*
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https://blockrock.fund/charter
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# Summary
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Asset managers (e.g. BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity) help people grow their wealth. But traditional asset managers suffer from structural problems that cause underperformance.
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> **BlockRock** is an "ownership fund" on Solana with treasury-backed tokens, decision markets, and AI agents to help people grow wealth with confidence.
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| Pillar | Description |
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| **Ownership** | Ironclad investor protections |
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| **Futarchy** | Performance-optimized decisions |
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| **AI** | Agentic alpha generation |
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# Why: The Case for a New Kind of Asset Manager
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The $120T+ asset management industry is broken. **Most actively managed funds underperform their benchmarks, especially after fees.**
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## Fee Misalignment
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BlackRock earns ~73% of its revenue from management fees. These fees are collected regardless of fund performance. Performance fees account for just ~5% of revenue. This incentivizes asset accumulation over performance, consensus-driven investing, and narrative capture (e.g. BlackRock's shifting ESG stance chasing institutional clout).
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## Regulatory Restrictions
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Dense regulation hinders performance. Compliance delays action, fiduciary standards prefer conservative allocations, and cross-border restrictions fragment strategy. The gap between how capital *should* move and how it *can* move drags down returns.
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## Organizational Complexity
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Sprawling hierarchies create bureaucratic bloat. Decisions pass through committees, internal politics shape strategy, and huge operational costs reinforce the pressure to prioritize asset gathering. BlackRock has 20,000+ employees, 70+ global offices, and 1,700+ ETFs.
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## The Death Spiral
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These problems reinforce each other in a negative cycle:
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> fee model incentivizes scale → scale demands complexity → complexity invites compliance → fee model + complexity + compliance = worse decisions → bad decisions reduce performance → fees come in anyway
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## Why Now
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Converging forces are opening a window of opportunity for a new kind of asset manager.
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### Peak Uncertainty
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Investment conviction is at an all-time low.
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**Growing (let alone preserving) wealth is more difficult, time-consuming, and anxiety-inducing than ever.**
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- Stocks ranging at all-time highs
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- Precious metals swinging violently
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- USD reserve status being questioned
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- AI threatening to displace white-collar work
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- Crypto underperforming expectations
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### Ownership Infrastructure
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MetaDAO's permissionless launchpad lets anyone launch an "ownership coin" whose value is tied to a futarchy-governed treasury. This infrastructure is battle-tested and now publicly available.
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In 2025, MtnCapital launched an ownership fund on MetaDAO, positioned as an early-stage VC fund. But it struggled to pass proposals and eventually wound down.
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Futarchy governance works by letting markets price competing outcomes, but private VC deals are difficult to price with asymmetric information, long timelines, and binary outcomes.
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Liquid asset allocation for risk-adjusted returns gives futarchy the pricing efficiency it requires. **Decision markets can evaluate portfolio construction, yield strategies, and value accrual better than illiquid VC bets.**
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Proof of safety: When MtnCapital wound down, holders received their proportional share of the treasury through the protocol's built-in liquidation mechanism. The system's guarantees worked as intended. **Even in failure, no value is lost to extraction or mismanagement.**
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### Onchain Assets
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The universe of investable assets on Solana is expanding rapidly. Spot markets, perpetual futures, lending markets, structured yield products, and RWAs (tokenized stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) are accessible onchain with deep liquidity and composable infrastructure.
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**The breadth of onchain assets available now rivals what traditional asset managers can access, without the friction.**
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# How: BlockRock's Principles
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BlockRock manages assets with a new system where incentives, governance, and execution are rebuilt from first principles.
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## Ownership
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**Tokenholders are the primary beneficiaries of fund performance via treasury backing.** Minimal management fees are funded transparently from the treasury and adjustable via governance. No percentage-based skimming.
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Tokens also enable borderless access. Anyone with a wallet can hold the token, bypassing the geographic and accreditation barriers of traditional funds.
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## Futarchy
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Governance uses conditional decision markets. When a proposal enters, two markets open: one pricing the token if the proposal is adopted, another if rejected. At the end of the period, the condition with the highest time-weighted average price wins.
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- **Replaces committees with markets.** No boardroom politics, no career risk aversion, no consensus-seeking. **Decisions are priced by participants with capital at stake to maximize risk-adjusted returns.**
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- **Operates continuously.** Speed of capital movement matches speed of opportunity.
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- **Reinforces incentive alignment.** Because participants are token-holders pricing outcomes, the governance layer inherits the ownership layer's alignment. Self-interested pricing incentivizes better decision-making.
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## AI
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AI agents act as always-on analysts, ingesting live data, market signals, and macro context to generate a continuous stream of proposals. Critically:
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- **They propose, never execute.** AI agents have no authority to force decisions — only to submit ideas to the governance layer. Their proposals compete with human submissions on equal footing.
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- **They are judged purely by market pricing.** No institutional bias filters their ideas. Good proposals win regardless of source.
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- **They scale with compute, not headcount.** **As AI capabilities grow, the fund's capability grows too. With minimal overhead.**
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## The Positive Flywheel
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BlockRock inverts the traditional cycle of bloat and extraction:
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> ownership incentivizes proposals → proposals create mispricings → mispricings attract traders → traders improve decisions → good decisions improve fund performance → fund performance pumps token → pumps invite ownership
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## The Resulting User Experience
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**Passive Holders** enjoy increasing treasury-backed value with secure structure, bullish decision-making, and minimal value leakage. **Active Investors** submit proposals, trade decision markets, and profit for accurate judgment.
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# What: BlockRock in Practice
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The playbook for launching, operating, and scaling BlockRock.
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## Launch
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BlockRock funds launch via ICO on MetaDAO's permissionless launchpad, which provides full-stack futarchy governance with legal enforcement, so that token value is tied to treasury value.
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BlockRock's flagship fund launches first with a mandate for a moderate risk strategy to maximize Sortino ratio (penalizing downside volatility) by allocating the treasury into a portfolio of onchain positions.
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95% of tokens are distributed to ICO participants at the same price. The remaining 5% is allocated to the founding team, which unlocks at 3-month TWAPs of 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, and 32X the ICO price. A $5K allowance per month is allocated to the team for supporting infrastructure.
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BlockRock may launch additional funds in the future with unique mandates and risk profiles.
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## Operations
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Every fund operation follows the same decision cycle:
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1. **Proposal enters** — An AI agent or human submits a proposal to the governance layer.
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2. **Conditional markets open** — Two markets price the token: one if the proposal passes, one if it fails.
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3. **Markets resolve** — After the voting period, the outcome with the higher time-weighted average price wins and is automatically executed. Traders who priced the winning outcome correctly profit.
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## Distributions
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Any token holder can submit a proposal to distribute value to holders via buybacks, dividends, or liquidation. **If a decision market resolves in favor of a distribution, the treasury is automatically distributed according to the proposal.**
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## Communications
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**BlockRock is a spectator sport.** Everyday, anyone interested in financial markets can check BlockRock to see strategists proposing investment theses, traders battling to approve or reject proposals, and the fund's portfolio growing in lockstep with the token. Every decision market resolution is an official verdict, automatically executed by smart contracts. Updates are shared on X (Twitter) via @blockrockfund.
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## Scaling
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BlockRock is designed to scale to trillions in assets under management. The token's mint authority is governed by futarchy. So decision markets can approve additional fundraises with new token mints, while avoiding unfair dilution. **BlockRock funds expand when governance deems it bullish.**
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*This charter is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation, or an offer to buy or sell any security or token. Cryptocurrency investments are highly volatile and carry significant risk. Consult a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions.*
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## Links
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- Website: https://blockrock.fund
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- Twitter: https://x.com/blockrockfund
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## Raw Data
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- Launch address: `J7CmLqfMLVq67swRQa6xCWn7VcyfpyhFSiQdJYNwkP8k`
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- Token: D9o (D9o)
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- Token mint: `D9o2F3Pu7gowtZr1PjPFiQr4DwVPkNJhqPjpVRwjmeta`
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- Version: v0.7
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- Closed: 2026-03-06
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The source document details the launch of BlockRock and its subsequent failure to meet fundraising targets, providing context for claims regarding futarchy and AI-driven fund management.
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