---
type: entity
entity_type: person
name: "Ben Hawkins"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# Ben Hawkins

## Overview
Ben Hawkins is a participant in the Solana DeFi ecosystem who engaged with MetaDAO's futarchy governance system in early 2024, proposing an OTC trade for META tokens.

## Timeline
- **2024-02-13** — Proposed $50,000 USDC OTC trade to MetaDAO for 1,500 META tokens at $33.33/token; proposal failed

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - proposed OTC trade
- [[metadao-otc-trade-ben-hawkins]] - governance proposal