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| type | entity_type | name | domain | status | parent_entity | platform | proposer | proposal_url | proposal_date | resolution_date | autocrat_version | category | summary | tracked_by | created |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| entity | decision_market | Sanctum: Should Sanctum implement CLOUD staking and active staking rewards? | internet-finance | passed | sanctum | futardio | proPaC9tVZEsmgDtNhx15e7nSpoojtPD3H9h4GqSqB2 | https://www.futard.io/proposal/4BTTxsV98Rhm1qjDe2yPdXtj7j7KBSuGtVQ6rUNWjjXf | 2025-02-06 | 2025-02-09 | 0.3 | mechanism | Implement CLOUD staking with 30-day vesting lockup and allocate 30M CLOUD (3% supply) to active staking rewards over 6 months | rio | 2026-03-11 |
Sanctum: Should Sanctum implement CLOUD staking and active staking rewards?
Summary
Sanctum's CLOUD-1 proposal (passed 2025-02-09) implements two governance mechanisms: (1) staked CLOUD (sCLOUD) with 30-day linearly vesting lockup as the base asset for futarchy participation, designed to mitigate Keynesian beauty contest dynamics by filtering for long-term holders, and (2) active staking rewards distributing 30M CLOUD (3% of total supply) over six months to participants based on (stake × time) × vote count with 10 USDC minimum trading volume per proposal.
The proposal represents Sanctum's adoption of MetaDAO's Autocrat v0.3 futarchy infrastructure with custom extensions for staking and participation incentives. It plans biweekly governance cadence (1 week deliberation + 3 day voting) and explicitly delays transitioning to sCLOUD/USDC markets until users are comfortable with the mechanics.
Market Data
- Outcome: Passed
- Proposer: proPaC9tVZEsmgDtNhx15e7nSpoojtPD3H9h4GqSqB2
- Proposal Account: 4BTTxsV98Rhm1qjDe2yPdXtj7j7KBSuGtVQ6rUNWjjXf
- DAO Account: 5n61x4BeVvvRMcYBMaorhu1MaZDViYw6HghE8gwLCvPR
- Autocrat Version: 0.3
- Completed: 2025-02-09
Key Mechanisms
Staking Lockup:
- 30-day linearly vesting lockup (~3.3 CLOUD/day per 100 sCLOUD unstaked)
- Designed to filter for long-term holders and reduce short-term speculation
- Framed as solution to "primary potential failure mode of futarchy" (beauty contest)
Active Staking Rewards:
- 30M CLOUD (3% of total supply) allocated over 6 months
- Distribution formula: (staked CLOUD × time) × vote count
- Minimum 10 USDC trading volume per proposal to qualify
- Two 15M tranches, quarterly distribution, first ~3 months after passage
- Voting tracked starting from CLOUD-2
Significance
This proposal is significant for futarchy mechanism design because it introduces two novel extensions to the base Autocrat architecture: staking lockups as a beauty contest mitigation strategy and active rewards as a participation incentive. Both are theoretical mechanisms without empirical validation—the proposal represents a live experiment in whether these additions improve governance quality versus introducing new attack vectors (e.g., mercenary capital farming minimum rewards).
The staged rollout approach (delaying sCLOUD/USDC transition until users are comfortable) also reveals adoption friction in futarchy implementations, suggesting mechanism complexity requires gradual onboarding rather than immediate full deployment.
Relationship to KB
- sanctum — governance decision implementing futarchy with custom extensions
- 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 — uses Autocrat v0.3 as base infrastructure
- futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements — demonstrates staged rollout friction