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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 to active staking rewards for governance participation | rio | 2026-03-11 |
Sanctum: Should Sanctum implement CLOUD staking and active staking rewards?
Summary
Sanctum's first governance proposal (CLOUD-1) passed on 2025-02-09, implementing two mechanisms: (1) CLOUD staking with 30-day linearly vesting lockup as the base asset for futarchy participation, designed to mitigate Keynesian beauty contest dynamics by incentivizing long-term holder participation, and (2) active staking rewards allocating 30M CLOUD (3% of total supply) over six months to participants based on (staked amount × time) × votes participated, with a 10 USDC minimum trading volume threshold per proposal.
Market Data
- Outcome: Passed
- Proposer: proPaC9tVZEsmgDtNhx15e7nSpoojtPD3H9h4GqSqB2
- Platform: Futardio (Autocrat v0.3)
- Resolution: 2025-02-09
- Proposal Number: CLOUD-1 (Sanctum's first governance proposal)
Mechanism Design
Staking Implementation:
- 30-day linearly vesting lockup (~3.3 CLOUD/day per 100 sCLOUD unstaked)
- Planned transition from CLOUD/USDC to sCLOUD/USDC markets (deferred initially due to user confusion)
- Designed to filter for long-term holders and reduce speculative momentum trading
Active Staking Rewards:
- 30M CLOUD allocation (3% of total supply)
- Two 15M tranches distributed quarterly
- Rewards formula: (staked CLOUD × time) × number of votes participated
- Minimum 10 USDC trading volume per proposal to qualify
- First distribution ~3 months after passage
- Proposal cadence: every two weeks (1 week deliberation + 3 day voting)
Significance
This proposal represents the first major implementation of staking-gated futarchy markets on Solana, introducing two novel mechanisms to address known futarchy failure modes: beauty contest dynamics (via lockups) and low participation (via rewards). The staged rollout strategy—deferring sCLOUD markets until users are comfortable—demonstrates pragmatic adoption friction management.
The 30M CLOUD allocation (3% of supply) is substantial, indicating Sanctum's commitment to subsidizing governance participation as a public good rather than expecting pure market incentives to drive engagement.
Relationship to KB
- sanctum — first governance decision
- 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
- futarchy adoption faces friction from token price psychology proposal complexity and liquidity requirements — explicitly acknowledges and manages adoption friction
- staking-lockups-mitigate-keynesian-beauty-contest-in-futarchy-by-forcing-long-term-holder-participation — mechanism rationale
- active-staking-rewards-incentivize-futarchy-participation-by-compensating-governance-effort-with-token-distributions — mechanism rationale