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type: entity
entity_type: company
name: "Meteora"
domain: internet-finance
handles: ["@MeteoraAG"]
website: https://meteora.ag
status: active
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
last_updated: 2026-03-11
category: "Liquidity protocol / AMM (Solana)"
stage: growth
key_metrics:
metadao_revenue_share: "46% of MetaDAO Q4 2025 revenue ($1.15M) from Meteora LP positions"
standard_allocation: "900K tokens per Futardio launch placed in Meteora pool"
competitors: ["[[raydium]]", "[[omnipair]]"]
built_on: ["Solana"]
tags: ["AMM", "DLMM", "liquidity", "solana", "metadao-infrastructure"]
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# Meteora
## Overview
Solana liquidity protocol offering Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker (DLMM) pools, concentrated liquidity, and dynamic bonding pools. Critical infrastructure for the MetaDAO ecosystem — every Futardio launch allocates 900K tokens to a Meteora pool as part of the standard token issuance template, and Meteora LP positions generated 46% of MetaDAO's $2.51M Q4 2025 revenue.
## Current State
- **Role in MetaDAO ecosystem**: Default secondary liquidity venue. Standard Futardio launch template: 10M token base issuance + 2M Futarchic AMM + 900K Meteora + performance package. Meteora provides the non-futarchic liquidity layer.
- **Revenue generation**: MetaDAO earned $1.15M from Meteora LP positions in Q4 2025 (46% of total $2.51M revenue). The remaining 54% came from the Futarchic AMM.
- **Protocol-owned liquidity**: MetaDAO maintains protocol-owned liquidity on Meteora (e.g., META-USDC pool). The META token migration proposal (Aug 2025) included withdrawing protocol-owned liquidity from Meteora as a migration step.
- **Dynamic Bonding Pools**: Used by projects like Phonon Studio AI for tokenized AI artist trading — Meteora DBC Pools enable token launches tied to dynamic bonding curves.
- **DLMM**: Concentrated liquidity pools used by Paystream and other DeFi protocols for routing strategies.
## Timeline
- **2024-02** — MetaDAO executes Dutch auction on OpenBook, pairs USDC with META for Meteora LP (first formal META liquidity on Meteora)
- **2024-02** — $100K OTC trade with Ben Hawkins includes creating 50/50 Meteora LP 1% Volatile Pool META-USDC
- **2025-Q4** — Meteora LP generates $1.15M in fees for MetaDAO (Pine Analytics Q4 report)
- **2025-10 to 2026-03** — Every Futardio launch allocates 900K tokens to Meteora pool as standard template
## Competitive Position
- **Infrastructure role**: Not competing with MetaDAO — provides complementary liquidity infrastructure. Meteora is the LP venue; Futarchic AMM is the governance venue.
- **vs Raydium**: Both are major Solana AMMs. Raydium offers CLMM (concentrated liquidity). Meteora differentiates with DLMM and dynamic bonding pools.
- **vs OmniPair**: OmniPair combines AMM + lending (leverage). Meteora is pure liquidity provision — different use case but competes for LP capital on the same token pairs.
- **Structural advantage**: Deep integration with MetaDAO ecosystem through standard launch template creates reliable flow of new token pairs.
## Relationship to KB
- [[MetaDAO is the futarchy launchpad on Solana where projects raise capital through unruggable ICOs governed by conditional markets creating the first platform for ownership coins at scale]] — Meteora provides the secondary liquidity layer for every MetaDAO launch
- [[permissionless leverage on metaDAO ecosystem tokens catalyzes trading volume and price discovery that strengthens governance by making futarchy markets more liquid]] — Meteora pools are one venue where this liquidity lives
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Relevant Entities:
- [[metadao]] — ecosystem partner, revenue source
- [[omnipair]] — competing for LP capital
- [[raydium]] — AMM competitor on Solana
- [[futardio]] — launch template integration
Topics:
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]

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type: entity
entity_type: person
name: "Nallok"
domain: internet-finance
handles: ["@metanallok"]
status: active
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
last_updated: 2026-03-11
role: "Co-founder & Operator, MetaDAO"
organizations: ["[[metadao]]", "[[futardio]]"]
known_positions:
- "Futarchy requires mechanism simplification for production adoption — Robin Hanson's original designs include impractical elements"
- "Futarchy as a Service (FaaS) is the scaling path for futarchy governance"
tags: ["futarchy", "mechanism-design", "solana", "metadao-ecosystem"]
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# Nallok
## Overview
Co-founder and primary operator of MetaDAO. Legal name Kollan House. Serves as the key operational figure behind MetaDAO LLC (Republic of the Marshall Islands DAO LLC, 852 Lagoon Rd, Majuro, MH 96960) and sole Director of the Futarchy Governance SPC (Cayman Islands). While Proph3t is the public face and mechanism architect, Nallok handles legal structure, business development, treasury operations, and ecosystem coordination.
## Significance
- **Legal infrastructure**: Built MetaDAO's legal wrapper — the RMI DAO LLC + Cayman SPC structure that addresses the Ooki DAO precedent (DAOs without legal wrappers face general partnership liability)
- **Futarchy as a Service (FaaS)**: Proposed and led development of FaaS (March 2024) — the concept that futarchy governance can be offered as infrastructure to other DAOs, not just MetaDAO
- **Mechanism pragmatism**: Noted that Robin Hanson wanted random proposal outcomes — "impractical for production." This insight drove MetaDAO's simplification of futarchy theory into deployable mechanism design
- **Treasury operations**: Co-manages multi-sig for MetaDAO treasury. Involved in OTC trades, liquidity management, and compensation proposals
- **Compensation structure**: Nallok and Proph3t share a performance-based package (2% of supply per $1B FDV increase, up to 10% at $5B) — itself a statement about incentive alignment through futarchic governance
## Key Contributions to KB
- Primary source for futarchy mechanism simplification claims — the gap between Hanson's theory and production reality
- Operational knowledge of MetaDAO's legal structure (RMI DAO LLC, Cayman SPC)
- FaaS proposal history — the scaling thesis for futarchy governance
- Contact: kollan@metadao.fi
## Relationship to KB
- [[futarchy implementations must simplify theoretical mechanisms for production adoption because original designs include impractical elements that academics tolerate but users reject]] — Nallok's direct observation about Hanson's impractical proposals
- [[Ooki DAO proved that DAOs without legal wrappers face general partnership liability making entity structure a prerequisite for any futarchy-governed vehicle]] — Nallok built the legal structure that addresses this
- [[futarchy-governed entities are structurally not securities because prediction market participation replaces the concentrated promoter effort that the Howey test requires]] — Nallok engaged legal counsel to investigate this question
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Relevant Entities:
- [[metadao]] — co-founded
- [[futardio]] — operates
- [[proph3t]] — co-founder
Topics:
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]

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type: entity
entity_type: company
name: "Theia Research"
domain: internet-finance
handles: ["@TheiaResearch"]
status: active
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
last_updated: 2026-03-11
founded: 2024-01-01
category: "Onchain liquid token fund"
stage: growth
key_metrics:
metadao_otc_total: "$1.63M across 3 OTC trades (Jan 2025: $500K, Jul 2025: $630K, Jan 2025: $500K)"
meta_tokens_held: "1,070+ META tokens via OTC"
investment_approach: "Kelly Criterion at 20% of full Kelly, Bayesian updating"
competitors: []
built_on: ["Solana", "Ethereum"]
tags: ["institutional-investor", "metadao-ecosystem", "internet-finance-thesis", "token-governance"]
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# Theia Research
## Overview
Onchain liquid token fund managed by Felipe Montealegre. Invests in companies building the "Internet Financial System" — taking large positions in small-cap tokens through structured OTC deals with 2-4 year investment horizons. The most significant institutional investor in the MetaDAO ecosystem, holding 1,070+ META tokens acquired at premiums to market price. Coined the "Token Problem" framework (lemon market dynamics in token markets) and published the Token Transparency Framework with Blockworks.
## Current State
- **Fund structure**: Theia Blockchain Partners Master Fund LP
- **Investment thesis**: Internet Financial System replacing permissioned, siloed traditional finance. Five advantages: free capital flows, improved property rights, financial accessibility, operational efficiency, faster GDP growth.
- **MetaDAO position**: Largest known institutional holder. Holds MetaDAO specifically for "prioritizing investors over teams" — the competitive moat that futarchy creates. Three OTC trades totaling $1.63M, all at premiums to spot.
- **AI integration**: Uses LLMs as "backbone of process improvements." Internal dashboards consolidating Discord, Notion, GitHub. Planning "AI agents that can perform discrete tasks" for competitive analysis.
- **Research output**: Published "The Investment Manager of the Future" (Feb 2026), arguing LLMs shift investment from economies of scale to economies of edge. 292 bookmarks — most saved piece in its batch. Also published internet finance thesis with 50-100bps GDP growth projection.
## Timeline
- **2025-01-03** — First MetaDAO OTC trade: $500K for META tokens
- **2025-01-07** — Published internet finance thesis (IFS as better financial system for 8B people)
- **2025-01-27** — Second OTC trade: $500K for 370 META at $1,350/token
- **2025-07-21** — Third OTC trade: $630K for 700 META at $900/token (38% premium to spot). Funds used to extend MetaDAO runway + legal advisory.
- **2026-02-12** — Published 2025 Annual Letter. Five-phase investment loop: moat analysis → multiples → prediction → Kelly sizing → Bayesian updating. Noah Goldberg promoted to equity partner, Thomas Bautista hired.
- **2026-02-17** — Published "The Investment Manager of the Future." LLMs invert 80/20 ratio of execution vs analysis.
## Competitive Position
- **Unique positioning**: Only known institutional fund explicitly building investment thesis around futarchy governance as a moat
- **Token governance focus**: Launched Token Transparency Framework with Blockworks. Describes "Lemon Problem in Token Markets" — the structural issue of quality tokens being indistinguishable from scams
- **Strategic value to MetaDAO**: OTC trades funded legal/regulatory review, extending ecosystem credibility beyond pure speculation
- **Economies of edge thesis**: Argues 5 high-agency analysts with LLMs replace 100 junior staff — structural case for why small, domain-expert investment entities (Living Agents) become viable
## Investment Thesis
Theia validates the Living Capital model — a sophisticated institutional investor using rigorous frameworks (Kelly Criterion, Bayesian updating, Helmer's 7 Powers) to allocate into futarchy-governed tokens. Their "economies of edge" thesis is the structural argument for why Living Capital vehicles work now: LLMs collapse the 80% execution overhead that forced funds to accumulate AUM. If Theia demonstrates persistent alpha from this approach, it becomes the reference case for agentic investment management.
**Thesis status:** TRACKING (not an investment target — a validation signal for the Living Capital model)
## Relationship to KB
- [[LLMs shift investment management from economies of scale to economies of edge because AI collapses the analyst labor cost that forced funds to accumulate AUM rather than generate alpha]] — Theia's core contribution to the KB
- [[internet finance generates 50 to 100 basis points of additional annual GDP growth by unlocking capital allocation to previously inaccessible assets and eliminating intermediation friction]] — Theia's macro thesis
- [[publishing investment analysis openly before raising capital inverts hedge fund secrecy because transparency attracts domain-expert LPs who can independently verify the thesis]] — Theia exemplifies this model
- [[futarchy-governed entities are structurally not securities because prediction market participation replaces the concentrated promoter effort that the Howey test requires]] — Theia funded MetaDAO's legal advisory to investigate this question
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Relevant Entities:
- [[metadao]] — largest institutional investor
- [[proph3t]] — founder of MetaDAO, primary counterparty
- [[nallok]] — MetaDAO operator, OTC trade counterparty
Topics:
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]