---
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 through an OTC trade proposal in early 2024.

## Timeline
- **2024-02-13** — Proposed [[metadao-otc-trade-ben-hawkins]]: offered to purchase 1,500 META tokens for $50,000 USDC at $33.33 per token, proposal failed

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] - proposed OTC trade with treasury
- [[MetaDAOs Autocrat program implements futarchy through conditional token markets where proposals create parallel pass and fail universes settled by time-weighted average price over a three-day window]] - governance mechanism used