Can you short real life? That’s the idea behind Futarchy. By applying financial logic and smart contracts to ordinary life, you can create prediction markets that help people create better decisions. Today Proph3t of MetaDAO joins the Gwart show to discuss what Futarchy is, how it relates to DAO governance for projects like DeFi, where the tokens are at and if traditional entrepreneurs could thrive in a world where DAOs run the ship.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:50 Profit's background

01:51 What is futarchy?

02:22 Problems with DeFi governance

03:02 What projects need governance?

06:14 How does MetaDAO work?

07:25 Markets vs voting

09:14 What issues should be decided by futarchy?

11:15 Why markets know best?

16:20 Would Steve Jobs survive futarchy?

17:13 Does futarchy fix bad management?

20:34 Are DAOs companies?

22:09 Does futarchy always lead to NGU?

23:00 What is the Meta token?

24:26 Recent MetaDAO proposals

25:54 $250k bet on recent proposal

28:30 Why build on Solana?

29:59 Solana culture

31:19 Examples of novel ideas

34:02 Professional DAOs

37:21 Forking vs voting

40:12 Open source protocols vs DOAs

41:56 Tokens, tokens, everywhere

47:58 Shareholder rights?

51:28 It's all prediction markets

55:01 Prediction markets a threat to democracy?

58:38 Variables in social welfare

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