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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| entity | decision_market | IslandDAO: Enhancing The Dean's List DAO Economic Model | internet-finance | passed | deans-list | futardio | IslandDAO | https://www.futard.io/proposal/5c2XSWQ9rVPge2Umoz1yenZcAwRaQS5bC4i4w87B1WUp | 2024-07-18 | 2024-07-22 | mechanism | Proposal to charge clients in USDC, use proceeds to buy DEAN tokens, distribute DEAN to citizens, and retain DAO tax in USDC | rio | 2026-03-11 |
IslandDAO: Enhancing The Dean's List DAO Economic Model
Summary
This proposal restructured The Dean's List DAO's economic model to create sustained buy pressure on the DEAN token. Instead of paying contributors in USDC directly, the DAO would use client payments to purchase DEAN tokens on the open market and distribute those tokens to citizens, while retaining the DAO tax (20%) in USDC for treasury stability. The model projected a 5.33% FDV increase based on 6 dApp reviews per month at 2,500 USDC each.
Market Data
- Outcome: Passed
- Proposer: IslandDAO
- Resolution: 2024-07-22 (4 days after proposal)
- Proposal Account: 5c2XSWQ9rVPge2Umoz1yenZcAwRaQS5bC4i4w87B1WUp
Mechanism Design
The proposal introduced an asymmetric buy/sell pressure model:
- Revenue flow: Clients pay in USDC
- DAO tax: 20% retained in USDC (treasury hedge)
- Token purchases: 80% used to buy DEAN on open market
- Distribution: DEAN tokens distributed to citizens as payment
- Net pressure: If citizens sell 80% of received DEAN, buys exceed sells by the tax rate (20%)
The model explicitly hedges treasury stability by keeping the DAO tax in stablecoins while exposing contributors to token price upside.
Significance
This proposal demonstrates futarchy pricing a complex economic mechanism with multiple variables: buy pressure, sell pressure, treasury stability, and contributor incentives. The detailed financial modeling (including price impact estimates and FDV projections) suggests sophisticated market participants engaged with the decision. The proposal's passage indicates the futarchy markets evaluated the mechanism favorably, though trading volume data is not available.
The model represents a novel approach to DAO tokenomics: using operational revenue to create sustained token buy pressure while maintaining treasury stability in stablecoins.
Relationship to KB
- deans-list - parent entity, economic model restructuring
- 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 - governance mechanism used
- token economics replacing management fees and carried interest creates natural meritocracy in investment governance - related tokenomics pattern