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Prediction Markets, But For Everything. Futarchy With Proph3t
About this episode
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.
Follow our guest on Twitter: @metaproph3t
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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