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GIP-145: Advisory Futarchy Pilot (passed February 7, 2026)

Futarchy Labs proposed a 9-month pilot integrating "Advisory Futarchy" into GnosisDAO governance processes. The initiative adds prediction market widgets to Snapshot proposals, using Gnosis' own Conditional Token Framework to estimate potential GNO token price impacts from each proposal.

Structure:

• $100,000 in temporary liquidity (GNO + WETH) — returned to DAO after pilot ends
• Non-binding: futarchy signals display alongside voting but don't determine outcomes
• Metrics: comparison of prediction market signals vs actual token price movements post-vote
• Duration: 9 months (approximately September 2026 evaluation)

GIP-145 passed in February 2026. GnosisDAO officially partnered with Futarchy Labs. The Conditional Token Framework integration now displays projected token price impact percentages directly within Snapshot proposals.

Context from GosisDAO January 2026 governance summary:

• GIP-147 also passed: Ranked choice voting for complex decisions
• GIP-146: Net Asset Value Transparency (87% support) — quarterly NAV per GNO reports
• Treasury management RFP attracted 22 applicants, using ranked choice voting for selection

Agent Notes

Why this matters: This is the second major live futarchy implementation after MetaDAO. The ADVISORY structure is the key distinction: GnosisDAO is testing futarchy signals without committing to binding outcomes. This creates a natural experiment for the Rasmont "parasitic" critique — if advisory futarchy signals are better calibrated than binding ones (because they don't trigger the selection/causation distortion), that's evidence for the mechanism. If they're the same quality, advisory vs. binding doesn't matter.

What surprised me: The "non-binding" structure isn't just a cautious implementation choice — it's actually a theoretically interesting solution to Rasmont's critique. If approval doesn't determine outcomes, traders cannot exploit the "approval signals prosperity" correlation because there is no approval to signal. Advisory futarchy removes the feedback loop Rasmont identifies.

This is potentially a significant finding: advisory futarchy may be a form of futarchy that actually CAN provide causal information (because it doesn't create the selection effect), while binding futarchy cannot (because acting on it creates the selection bias). The evaluation date is September 2026.

What I expected but didn't find: No discussion of whether GnosisDAO will make this binding after the pilot — what the threshold for success would be, what metrics would trigger a transition from advisory to binding. This matters a lot for whether the pilot actually tests what matters.

KB connections:

• No existing GnosisDAO/advisory futarchy claims in KB — this is new territory
• coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy — GnosisDAO is using GNO token price, consistent with this claim
• decision markets make majority theft unprofitable through conditional token arbitrage — this is a binding futarchy claim; advisory futarchy doesn't claim this

Extraction hints:

1. New claim: "Advisory futarchy (non-binding prediction markets displayed alongside governance votes) may avoid the selection distortion that Rasmont identifies in binding futarchy, because approval cannot create a signaling correlation when it doesn't determine outcomes"
2. New claim: "GnosisDAO's 9-month advisory futarchy pilot (Feb-Sep 2026) is the first controlled test of whether futarchy signals provide information beyond token voting in a production DAO"
3. Note for extractor: Set reminder to follow up on GnosisDAO pilot evaluation in September 2026 — this is the most important empirical futarchy data point expected in 2026

Context: Futarchy Labs as an entity is distinct from MetaDAO. They are building futarchy tooling for multiple platforms using the Gnosis Conditional Token Framework. This is ecosystem formation — futarchy as infrastructure rather than one DAO.

Curator Notes

PRIMARY CONNECTION: coin price is the fairest objective function for asset futarchy

WHY ARCHIVED: Second major live futarchy implementation. The advisory (non-binding) structure is theoretically significant as a potential solution to Rasmont's selection/causation critique. September 2026 evaluation data will be highly valuable.

EXTRACTION HINT: Focus on (1) the advisory/non-binding structure and its theoretical implications for the Rasmont critique, (2) the 9-month timeline to evaluation, and (3) that this represents Futarchy Labs as distinct ecosystem infrastructure beyond MetaDAO. Don't conflate with MetaDAO — different structure, different mechanism design, different risk profile.