teleo-codex/entities/internet-finance/umia.md

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---
type: entity
entity_type: protocol
name: "Umia Finance"
domain: internet-finance
handles: ["@umia_finance"]
website: https://www.umia.finance
status: pre-launch
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-16
founded: 2026
founders: ["Francesco Mosterts"]
category: "Futarchy governance platform + fundraising via Quantum Markets (Ethereum)"
stage: pre-launch
built_on: ["Ethereum"]
partnerships: ["[[chainbound]]"]
tags: ["futarchy", "decision-markets", "quantum-markets", "governance", "fundraising", "qORG"]
---
# Umia Finance
## Overview
Futarchy-governed launch, fundraising, and governance platform on Ethereum. First implementation of Paradigm's Quantum Markets mechanism (June 2025). Enables creation and governance of qORGs (Quantum Organisations) — market-governed organizations backed by immutable onchain protocol and legal framework.
## Product Components
- **Quantum Markets** — shared liquidity across all proposal markets. Traders deposit once, receive credits on all active proposals. Non-winning markets fully revert. Solves capital inefficiency of MetaDAO's per-proposal bootstrapping.
- **CCA (Continuous Crowdsale Auction)** — trust-minimized fundraising mechanism with zkTLS and zkPassport community verification. Rewards early participants.
- **Decision Markets** — futarchy-based governance where treasury controlled exclusively through market mechanisms. Users trade conditional tokens.
- **qORGs (Quantum Organisations)** — market-governed organizations. Legal wrapper: Umia Governance SPC.
## Team & Infrastructure
- **Chainbound** partnership — blockchain infrastructure R&D ($4.6M seed, August 2024)
- **Francesco Mosterts** — co-founder of both Chainbound and Umia
- **Jonas Bostoen** — Chainbound CTO
## Current State
- App: "Coming Soon" (pre-launch as of March 2026)
- First qORG will govern Umia protocol itself using its own decision markets
- Docs and blog active (Jan-Feb 2026 posts)
- Launching on Ethereum
## Competitive Position
Direct competitor to MetaDAO on Solana. Key differentiation: quantum market mechanism (shared liquidity vs per-proposal bootstrapping). Key disadvantage: no production data vs MetaDAO's 2+ years of live operation.
## Relationship to KB
- [[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]] — Ethereum competitor
- [[quantum-markets-solve-futarchy-capital-inefficiency-by-sharing-liquidity-across-all-proposals-instead-of-bootstrapping-new-markets-per-decision]] — core mechanism
- [[futarchy-clob-liquidity-fragmentation-creates-wide-spreads-because-pricing-counterfactual-governance-outcomes-has-inherent-uncertainty]] — the problem Umia's quantum markets address