This week, Robin Hanson & Proph3t join the show to discuss one of crypto's most exciting experiments... Futarchy. With the launch of MetaDAO, Proph3t aims to enable a market driven approach to social governance. By implementing Robin's proposed system of Futarchy, could this be a way to fix DAO governance?

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:27) Prediction Markets, Governance & What Is Futarchy?

(07:39) Roadblocks To Adoption of Futarchy

(10:19) Monad Ad

(11:14) MetaDAO: Building The First Futarchy

(12:48) Governance Powered By The SVM

(20:22) The MetaDAO Endgame

(27:12) Futarchy As A Service (F.A.A.S)

(32:06) Vota: A Vote Market On Solana

(34:20) Solving Liquidity Fragmentation

(41:30) Defining Success For Futarchy

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