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Solana fundraising and governance platform where founders raise from the internet and futarchy markets, not votes, control the treasury.
MetaDAO is a fundraising and governance platform on Solana where founders raise money from their community through public token sales, and where the raised funds are controlled by decision markets instead of the team alone.
Projects launch with an ICO: investors have four days to commit USDC, everyone pays the same price, and those who commit earlier and more get a larger allocation. A discretionary cap lets the founder decide how much of the committed money to accept, so believers can join without the project over-raising. Founders can raise earlier private money through the Colosseum STAMP, an investment contract that converts straight into tokens at the ICO.
What makes MetaDAO different is what happens after the raise. Its tokens are "ownership coins": the treasury, the mint authority and key IP such as domains, social accounts and code sit under market oversight, so a team can't simply walk away with the money. Decisions use futarchy: there's no voting, only trading. Traders bet on what the token would be worth if a proposal passed and if it failed, and the proposal executes only if the market expects it to raise the value. Team unlocks are tied to the token trading above its launch price.
MetaDAO started as a governance project in November 2023 and has since run proposals for organizations including Jito, Sanctum and Flash Trade. Paradigm invested in 2024. In November 2026 it introduced a futarchy-governed consumer apps incubator, whose first project, 1609SAT, raised $100K. The platform is still in beta, and the MetaDAO team can override a market decision in extreme cases, a power it says it hasn't used.
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Interesting prop. I just don't see a reason why $RAWR holders should get diluted twice. "To keep the team aligned with 50% ownership, we propose minting an equivalent amount of RAWR sold into the team performance package." Rip Cars just went through a successful raise, and they didn't mint new tokens for the team either. What's the rational behind it, other than keeping team ownership at 50%? In the case this prop passes and you raise $300K by selling 6M $RAWR, the teams total ownership would drop to 40.5%. That's still a massive chunk over the total supply to keep you guys aligned. The main incentive should be to create value for $RAWR and make the token go up, in order to unlock the team package (2x,4x,8x,16x,32x). I've never seen a fundraising event where new tokens or equity is issued to the team itself to "keep them aligned"...
@MetaDAOProject Futarchy before coffee, naturally
@hmalviya9 this is basically @MetaDAOProject but if you leave things to decentralized governance it becomes a court of public opinion and all gridlocked
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MetaDAO community shows mixed sentiment centered on governance and fundraising concerns. While there's enthusiasm about the project and team performance, substantive debate exists around the fairness of token minting proposals for team compensation during a raise, with some viewing it as dilutive to early investors.