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| type | entity_type | name | domain | status | parent_entity | platform | proposer | proposal_url | proposal_date | resolution_date | category | summary | tracked_by | created |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| entity | decision_market | Sanctum: Should Sanctum build a Sanctum Mobile App (Wonder)? | internet-finance | failed | sanctum | futardio | Sanctum team | https://www.futard.io/proposal/2frDGSg1frwBeh3bc6R7XKR2wckyMTt6pGXLGLPgoota | 2025-03-28 | 2025-03-31 | strategy | Proposal to build Wonder mobile app for crypto onboarding focused on yield, safety, and user experience | rio | 2026-03-11 |
Sanctum: Should Sanctum build a Sanctum Mobile App (Wonder)?
Summary
Sanctum proposed building "Wonder," a mobile app designed to onboard mainstream users into crypto through yield-bearing assets, gasless transactions, and curated project participation. The proposal emphasized user safety (no seed phrases), people-first design (profiles over addresses), and potential monetization through AUM fees, swap fees, or subscriptions. The governance vote failed.
Market Data
- Outcome: Failed
- Proposer: Sanctum team
- Resolution: 2025-03-31 (3 days after proposal)
Strategic Context
The proposal represented a major strategic pivot from B2B liquid staking infrastructure to consumer mobile app. Sanctum cited competitive pressure (Phantom $3B valuation, Jupiter $1.7B market cap, MetaMask $320M swap fees) and opportunity cost of not capturing end-user value. The team acknowledged building consumer mobile apps is "notoriously hard" and would affect focus on core B2B staking business.
Significance
This failed proposal reveals governance skepticism about consumer app pivots even from teams with strong technical credentials. Sanctum manages $1B+ in staked assets but the community rejected expansion into direct consumer distribution, suggesting preference for infrastructure focus over end-user capture.
Relationship to KB
- sanctum - strategic direction decision
- futardio - governance platform
- 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 - governance mechanism