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type: entity
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entity_type: decision_market
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name: "Sanctum: Should Sanctum build a Sanctum Mobile App (Wonder)?"
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domain: internet-finance
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status: failed
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parent_entity: "[[sanctum]]"
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platform: "futardio"
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proposer: "Sanctum team"
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proposal_url: "https://www.futard.io/proposal/2frDGSg1frwBeh3bc6R7XKR2wckyMTt6pGXLGLPgoota"
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proposal_date: 2025-03-28
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resolution_date: 2025-03-31
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category: "strategy"
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summary: "Proposal to build Wonder, a mobile app for crypto onboarding focused on UX, safety, and yield-bearing assets"
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tracked_by: rio
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created: 2026-03-11
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# Sanctum: Should Sanctum build a Sanctum Mobile App (Wonder)?
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## Summary
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Sanctum proposed building "Wonder," a consumer mobile app designed to onboard mainstream users into crypto through simplified UX (no seed phrases), yield-bearing asset management, and social features. The proposal emphasized targeting "good" (agentic, integrous, open-minded, earnest) users rather than memecoin traders, with monetization through AUM fees, swap fees, or subscriptions. The proposal failed despite being Sanctum's "largest product decision ever."
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## Market Data
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- **Outcome:** Failed
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- **Proposer:** Sanctum team
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- **Created:** 2025-03-28
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- **Resolved:** 2025-03-31
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- **Discussion:** https://research.sanctum.so/t/cloud-004-should-sanctum-build-a-sanctum-mobile-app-wonder/1607
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## Proposal Details
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**Core product features:**
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- Automatic yield optimization on deposits
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- Gasless trades/transfers
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- Fiat offramp via card or bank transfer
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- Curated project discovery and investment
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- Profile-first design (people, not wallet addresses)
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**Go-to-market strategy:**
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- Closed beta with high-staking Sanctum community members
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- Invite-code distribution for iteration
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- IRL events for broader distribution after product-market fit
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**Stated opportunity cost:**
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Building Wonder would divert resources from B2B staking business and institutional liquid staking expansion (CEX integrations, custodial products, locked SOL).
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## Significance
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This proposal represents a major strategic fork for Sanctum: consumer mobile app versus B2B infrastructure. The failure suggests either:
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1. Community skepticism about consumer app viability
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2. Preference for focusing on core staking business
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3. Concerns about opportunity cost and resource allocation
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The proposal cited Phantom's $3B valuation and Jupiter's $1.7B market cap as evidence of consumer-facing crypto product value, but the market rejected the pivot.
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[sanctum]] - strategic direction decision
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- [[futardio]] - governance platform
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- [[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]] - governance mechanism context |