---
type: entity
entity_type: decision_market
name: "MetaDAO: Appoint Nallok and Proph3t Benevolent Dictators for Three Months"
domain: internet-finance
status: passed
parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
platform: "futardio"
proposer: "HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz"
proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/BqMrwwZYdpbXNsfpcxxG2DyiQ7uuKB69PznPWZ33GrZW"
proposal_date: 2024-03-26
resolution_date: 2024-03-31
category: "strategy"
summary: "Appointed Proph3t and Nallok as interim leaders with authority over retroactive compensation, business operations, and contributor management for three months to accelerate decision-making."
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# MetaDAO: Appoint Nallok and Proph3t Benevolent Dictators for Three Months

## Summary
This proposal appointed Proph3t and Nallok as Benevolent Dictators For 3 Months (BDF3M) from proposal finalization through June 30, 2024, to accelerate MetaDAO's execution velocity. The role included authority over retroactive compensation (December 2023 - March 2024), ongoing business operations, project management, and contributor compensation. The proposal requested 1,015 META and 100,000 USDC to cover seven months of compensation (four retroactive, three forward-looking).

## Market Data
- **Outcome:** Passed
- **Proposer:** HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz
- **Proposal Number:** 14
- **Completed:** 2024-03-31

## Significance
This proposal represented a critical governance transition for MetaDAO, explicitly acknowledging that "the current proposal process is too slow and costly" for startup-speed execution. The proposers estimated that failure would decrease MetaDAO's probability of success by more than 20%, framing this as an emergency measure to bridge the gap until futarchy could function autonomously. The decision consolidated operational authority outside the futarchy mechanism itself, creating a temporary hierarchy to solve the cold-start problem of governance market liquidity.

The scope included exceptional authority to make code license grants and steer the off-chain proposal process, effectively creating a dual governance structure where strategic decisions remained with the dictators while futarchy continued to operate for other proposals.

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - governance decision establishing temporary centralized leadership
- [[proph3t]] - appointed as co-dictator
- [[nallok]] - appointed as co-dictator
- [[MetaDAOs futarchy implementation shows limited trading volume in uncontested decisions]] - this proposal addresses the execution bottleneck that limited volume creates
- [[futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements]] - temporary dictator model as response to adoption friction