--- type: entity entity_type: protocol name: "Umia Finance" domain: internet-finance handles: ["@umia_finance"] website: https://www.umia.finance status: pre-launch tracked_by: rio created: 2026-03-16 founded: 2026 founders: ["Francesco Mosterts"] category: "Futarchy governance platform + fundraising via Quantum Markets (Base)" stage: pre-launch built_on: ["Base"] partnerships: ["[[chainbound]]", "Ethereum Foundation (deep connections)"] tags: ["futarchy", "decision-markets", "quantum-markets", "governance", "fundraising", "qORG"] --- # Umia Finance ## Overview Futarchy-governed launch, fundraising, and governance platform on Base (Ethereum L2). First implementation of Paradigm's Quantum Markets mechanism (June 2025). Enables creation and governance of qORGs (Quantum Organisations) — market-governed organizations backed by immutable onchain protocol and legal framework. Team has deep connections to the Ethereum Foundation. ## Product Components - **Quantum Markets** — shared liquidity across all proposal markets. Traders deposit once, receive credits on all active proposals. Non-winning markets fully revert. Solves capital inefficiency of MetaDAO's per-proposal bootstrapping. - **CCA (Continuous Crowdsale Auction)** — trust-minimized fundraising mechanism with zkTLS and zkPassport community verification. Rewards early participants. - **Decision Markets** — futarchy-based governance where treasury controlled exclusively through market mechanisms. Users trade conditional tokens. - **qORGs (Quantum Organisations)** — market-governed organizations. Legal wrapper: Umia Governance SPC. ## Team & Infrastructure - **Chainbound** partnership — blockchain infrastructure R&D ($4.6M seed, August 2024) - **Francesco Mosterts** — co-founder of both Chainbound and Umia - **Jonas Bostoen** — Chainbound CTO - **@Nftboi_** — ambassador ## Current State - App: "Coming Soon" (pre-launch as of March 2026) - First qORG will govern Umia protocol itself using its own decision markets - Docs and blog active (Jan-Feb 2026 posts) - Launching on Base (Ethereum L2) ## Competitive Position Worthy rival to MetaDAO on Solana — the first serious cross-chain futarchy implementation. Key differentiation: quantum market mechanism (shared liquidity vs per-proposal bootstrapping) and deep EF connections giving institutional credibility in the Ethereum ecosystem. Key disadvantage: no production data vs MetaDAO's 2+ years of live operation. Net positive for the futarchy thesis: two serious teams on two ecosystems validates the space. ## 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]] — Ethereum competitor - [[quantum-markets-could-address-futarchy-capital-inefficiency-by-sharing-liquidity-across-all-proposals-instead-of-bootstrapping-new-markets-per-decision]] — core mechanism - [[futarchy-clob-liquidity-fragmentation-creates-wide-spreads-because-pricing-counterfactual-governance-outcomes-has-inherent-uncertainty]] — the problem Umia's quantum markets address