---
type: decision
entity_type: decision_market
name: "MetaDAO: Approve Q3 Roadmap?"
domain: internet-finance
status: passed
parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "65U66fcYuNfqN12vzateJhZ4bgDuxFWN9gMwraeQKByg"
proposal_url: "https://v1.metadao.fi/metadao/trade/7AbivixQZTrgnqpmyxW2j1dd4Jyy15K3T2T7MEgfg8DZ"
proposal_date: 2024-08-03
resolution_date: 2024-08-07
category: "strategy"
summary: "MetaDAO Q3 roadmap focusing on market-based grants product launch, SF team building, and UI performance improvements"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# MetaDAO: Approve Q3 Roadmap?

## Summary
MetaDAO's Q3 2024 roadmap proposal outlined three strategic objectives: launching a market-based grants product with 5 organizations and 8 proposals, building a full-time team in San Francisco through 40 engineering interviews and hiring a Twitter intern, and reducing UI page load times from 14.6 seconds to 1 second.

## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Passed
- **Proposer:** 65U66fcYuNfqN12vzateJhZ4bgDuxFWN9gMwraeQKByg
- **Proposal Number:** 4
- **Created:** 2024-08-03
- **Completed:** 2024-08-07
- **Autocrat Version:** 0.3

## Significance
This roadmap represents MetaDAO's strategic pivot toward productizing futarchy governance for external DAOs through a grants product, while simultaneously addressing critical infrastructure needs (team building, UI performance). The specific targets (5 organizations, 8 proposals, 40 interviews, 14.6s→1s load time) provide measurable milestones for evaluating execution.

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - quarterly strategic planning decision
- [[futardio]] - platform where this proposal was decided
- Related to [[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]]

## Full Proposal Text

*Source: futard.io, tabled 2024-08-03*

Subject to the DAO's approval, this is what we'll be working on for the remainder of Q3:
### Launch market-based grants decisions
- Design a compelling market-based grants product
	- Research and document existing grants programs across both SVM and EVM ecosystem
	- Gather requirements and feedback from prospective users (DAOs)
	- Gather requirements and feedback from decision market traders
	- Create a 'cardboard cutout' design of what the UI will look like
- Implement the product
	- Write requisite smart contracts
	- Get smart contracts audited, either by a firm or by individuals
- Launch 5 organizations on the product
- Process 8 proposals through the product
### Start building the full-time team
- Secure an office space in San Francisco
- Interview 40 candidates for the engineering roles
- Hire a Twitter intern
### Improve the performance of the user interface
- Reduce page load times from 14.6s to 1s