MetaDAO Futarchy Protocol
activeFirst functional futarchy governance on mainnet. Participants trade on prediction markets about whether proposals will increase token value, replacing traditional voting. Generates ~$4,825/day in revenue. 11 projects using "Futarchy as a Service."
Organizations
2| MetaDAO | First DAO implementing functional futarchy governance on mainnet (Solana). Instead of token-holder voting, participants trade on prediction markets about whether proposals will increase token value. Generates ~$4,825/day revenue. Paradigm has invested. Multiple projects using "Futarchy as a Service" including Drift, Jito, Sanctum. |
| US AI Safety Institute (now CAISI) | The US AI Safety Institute (US AISI), renamed to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) in June 2025, is a government agency within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established in 2023 to develop standards, evaluations, and guidelines for safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence. |
People
2| Archon Fung | Professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Expert on democracy, governance, and civic participation. Studies how institutional design affects public engagement and accountability. |
| Yoshua Bengio | Yoshua Bengio is a pioneer of deep learning who shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their foundational work on neural networks. As Scientific Director of Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, he leads one of the world's largest academic AI research centers. His technical contributions include fundamental work on neural network optimization, recurrent networks, and attention mechanisms. In recent years, Bengio has increasingly focused on AI safety and governance. He was an early signatory of the 2023 Statement on AI Risk and has become a prominent voice arguing that frontier AI development requires more caution and oversight. His concerns span both near-term harms (misinformation, job displacement) and longer-term risks from systems that might become difficult to control. Unlike some AI researchers who dismiss existential risk concerns, Bengio has engaged seriously with these arguments. Bengio's research agenda has evolved to include safety-relevant directions like causal representation learning, which could help AI systems develop more robust and generalizable understanding of the world. He has advocated for international governance mechanisms for AI, including proposals for compute governance and safety standards. His position as one of the founding figures of modern AI gives his safety advocacy significant weight with policymakers and the broader research community. |
Related Projects
2| UMA Optimistic Oracle | Dispute resolution mechanism for prediction markets. Assertions assumed true unless challenged. Now using LLMs to propose and dispute data. >99% accuracy. Primary resolution layer for Polymarket. |
| Democracy Levels Framework | Framework by Aviv Ovadya and 13 co-authors for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically. Provides milestones toward meaningfully democratic AI. Published November 2024 (arxiv 2411.09222). |
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