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| type | entity_type | name | domain | status | founded | platform | key_metrics | tracked_by | created | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| entity | company | MtnCapital | internet-finance | liquidated | 2025 | metadao |
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rio | 2026-03-11 |
MtnCapital
First futarchy-governed VC fund on MetaDAO that failed to pass proposals and wound down, proving the liquidation mechanism works while revealing futarchy's limitations for illiquid private investments.
MtnCapital launched in 2025 as an early-stage VC fund using MetaDAO's ownership coin infrastructure. The fund struggled to pass investment proposals through futarchy governance, likely because private VC deals with asymmetric information, long timelines, and binary outcomes proved difficult for conditional markets to price efficiently. The fund eventually wound down, with holders receiving proportional treasury shares through the protocol's built-in liquidation mechanism.
While MtnCapital failed as an investment vehicle, it succeeded as a proof of safety — demonstrating that MetaDAO's liquidation guarantees work as intended even when the project fails. This precedent informed BlockRock's design choice to target liquid assets instead of illiquid VC deals.
Timeline
- 2025 — MtnCapital launches as futarchy-governed early-stage VC fund on MetaDAO
- 2025 — Fund struggles to pass proposals through futarchy governance
- 2025 — MtnCapital winds down, holders receive proportional treasury shares via protocol liquidation mechanism
Relationship to KB
- Demonstrates futarchy-governed liquidation is the enforcement mechanism that makes unruggable ICOs credible because investors can force full treasury return when teams materially misrepresent
- Reveals limitations of futarchy-excels-at-relative-selection-but-fails-at-absolute-prediction-because-ordinal-ranking-works-while-cardinal-estimation-requires-calibration for illiquid private investments
- Informed BlockRock's design choice to target liquid asset allocation instead of VC deals