---
type: decision
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 compensation for three months to accelerate decision-making."
key_metrics:
  compensation_requested_meta: 1015
  compensation_requested_usdc: 100000
  retroactive_months: 4
  forward_months: 3
  estimated_success_impact: "-20% if failed"
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) to address MetaDAO's slow execution speed caused by a costly and time-consuming proposal process. The appointment covered retroactive compensation for December-March and forward compensation for April-June, totaling 1015 META and 100,000 USDC.

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

## Scope of Authority
The BDF3M role granted Proph3t and Nallok authority over:
- Retroactive compensation for all contributions prior to the proposal
- Business operations including off-chain proposal process management, project management, expenses, and security improvements
- Current contributor compensation including incentive-based components
- Exceptional use grants for MetaDAO's code licenses
- Monthly community updates

## Compensation Structure
- **Total:** 1015 META + 100,000 USDC
- **Period:** 7 months (4 retroactive + 3 forward)
- **Average:** 145 META + $14,000 per month
- **Distribution:** From multisigs rather than DAO treasury directly
- **Vesting:** META likely issued in 5-year locked form

## OKRs
- Execute faster: Complete 10 GitHub issues per week
- Handle retroactive compensation within 1 week of passage
- Oversee new landing page creation
- Perform operations compensation for April-June

## Significance
This proposal represented a critical governance transition where MetaDAO temporarily centralized decision-making authority to overcome execution bottlenecks. The proposers estimated that failure would decrease MetaDAO's success probability by over 20%, framing this as an existential decision point. The three-month term was designed as a bridge until futarchy could function autonomously or another governance structure could be established.

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - governance decision establishing temporary centralized leadership
- [[proph3t]] - appointed as BDF3M
- [[nallok]] - appointed as BDF3M
- [[futardio]] - platform where proposal was executed