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| type | entity_type | name | domain | status | parent_entity | platform | proposal_url | proposal_date | resolution_date | category | summary | tracked_by | created | key_metrics | ||||||
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| entity | decision_market | BlockRock: Futardio ICO Launch | internet-finance | failed | blockrock | futardio | https://www.futard.io/launch/J7CmLqfMLVq67swRQa6xCWn7VcyfpyhFSiQdJYNwkP8k | 2026-03-05 | 2026-03-06 | fundraise | Ownership fund ICO targeting $500K for futarchy-governed liquid asset allocation on Solana | rio | 2026-03-11 |
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BlockRock: Futardio ICO Launch
Summary
BlockRock launched as an "ownership fund" on MetaDAO's Futardio platform targeting $500K to operate a futarchy-governed treasury investing in liquid Solana assets. The fund positioned itself as "BlackRock on the blockchain" with AI-generated proposals, decision market governance, and performance-based team compensation. The ICO failed to reach its funding threshold, closing with only $100 committed.
Market Data
- Outcome: Failed (refunding)
- Raise Target: $500,000
- Total Committed: $100
- Launch Date: 2026-03-05
- Close Date: 2026-03-06
Significance
BlockRock's charter provides the most detailed public articulation of the "futarchy-governed asset manager" thesis to date. The document explicitly contrasts traditional asset management pathologies (fee misalignment, regulatory drag, organizational bloat) with futarchy's structural advantages (ownership alignment, market-driven decisions, AI scalability).
The launch's failure to attract capital despite sophisticated positioning suggests either:
- Market skepticism of futarchy for asset allocation
- Insufficient trust in the team/platform
- Poor timing (market conditions, competing opportunities)
- Inadequate distribution/marketing
The charter cites MtnCapital's 2025 wind-down as proof that liquidation mechanisms work, but this may have signaled risk rather than safety to potential investors.
Relationship to KB
- blockrock — parent entity
- 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 — infrastructure used
- blockrock-demonstrates-futarchy-governed-liquid-asset-allocation-as-viable-alternative-to-illiquid-vc-bets — core thesis
- asset-management-fee-model-incentivizes-scale-over-performance-because-management-fees-dominate-revenue-regardless-of-returns — problem being solved