teleo-codex/decisions/internet-finance/metadao-migrate-autocrat-v01.md
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Adds complete proposal text to all 28 MetaDAO governance records that
previously had only hand-built summaries. This was the original batch
from PR #1748 that was closed without merge due to rebase conflict.

Records updated:
- Proposals 1-15: LST vote market, Autocrat migrations (v01/v02),
  Saber vote market, spot market creation, AMM program, multi-option
  proposals, OTC trades (Ben Hawkins, Pantera, Colosseum), Dutch auction,
  burn 99.3% META, FaaS development, benevolent dictators, compensation
- Proposals 16-36: Fundraise 2, Q3 roadmap, create Futardio, services
  agreement, hire Advaith, swap ISC, hire Robin Hanson, token split,
  release launchpad, OTC Theia, migrate META token, fund futarchy research

Source: inbox/archive/internet-finance/ proposal archives from futard.io

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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
decision decision_market MetaDAO: Migrate Autocrat Program to v0.1 internet-finance passed metadao futardio HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz https://v1.metadao.fi/metadao/trade/AkLsnieYpCU2UsSqUNrbMrQNi9bvdnjxx75mZbJns9zi 2023-12-03 2023-12-13 mechanism Upgrade Autocrat program to v0.1 with configurable proposal durations (default 3 days) and migrate 990K META, 10K USDC, 5.5 SOL to new treasury rio 2026-03-11

MetaDAO: Migrate Autocrat Program to v0.1

Summary

This proposal upgraded MetaDAO's Autocrat futarchy implementation to v0.1, introducing configurable proposal slot durations with a new 3-day default (down from an unspecified longer period) to enable faster governance iteration. The migration transferred 990,000 META, 10,025 USDC, and 5.5 SOL from the v0.0 treasury to the v0.1 program's treasury.

Market Data

  • Outcome: Passed
  • Proposer: HfFi634cyurmVVDr9frwu4MjGLJzz9XbAJz981HdVaNz
  • Proposal Account: AkLsnieYpCU2UsSqUNrbMrQNi9bvdnjxx75mZbJns9zi
  • DAO Account: 3wDJ5g73ABaDsL1qofF5jJqEJU4RnRQrvzRLkSnFc5di
  • Completed: 2023-12-13

Significance

This was MetaDAO's first major governance mechanism upgrade, establishing the pattern of iterative futarchy refinement. The shift to configurable and shorter proposal durations reflected a production learning: faster feedback loops matter more than theoretical purity in early-stage futarchy adoption.

The proposal also highlighted a key production tradeoff: the upgrade was deployed without verifiable builds due to unspecified constraints, accepting counterparty trust risk to ship the improvement faster. The proposer acknowledged this as temporary, noting future versions would use verifiable builds.

Key Risks Acknowledged

  • Smart contract risk: Potential bugs in v0.1 not present in v0.0 (assessed as low given limited code changes)
  • Counterparty risk: Non-verifiable build required trust in proposer not introducing backdoors

Relationship to KB

Full Proposal Text

Source: futard.io, tabled 2023-12-03

Overview

I've made some improvements to the autocrat program. You can see these here. Most importantly, I've made the slots per proposal configurable, and changed its default to 3 days to allow for quicker feedback loops.

This proposal migrates the 990,000 META, 10,025 USDC, and 5.5 SOL from the treasury owned by the first program to the treasury owned by the second program.

Key risks

Smart contract risk

There is a risk that the new program contains an important bug that the first one didn't. I consider this risk small given that I didn't change that much of autocrat.

Counter-party risk

Unfortunately, for reasons I can't get into, I was unable to build this new program with solana-verifiable-build. You'd be placing trust in me that I didn't introduce a backdoor, not on the GitHub repo, that allows me to steal the funds.

For future versions, I should always be able to use verifiable builds.