1/ Futarchy, while still a novel governance mechanism, is slowly gaining traction.
This governance model, spearheaded by @MetaDAOProject, implements conditional markets to allow participants to speculate on whether or not the passage of a proposal will be accretive to token https://twitter.com/1522646662895783941/status/1833898070024859655

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2/ As of Sep 2024, these futarchic markets had only traded a cumulative ~$675k in volume, a small amount of activity to gain any signal.
Since, the likes of @jito_sol, @MarinadeFinance, @sanctumso, and @DriftProtocol have tested governance through futarchy across 15 additional

3/ While volumes remain small, @MetaDAOProject's markets have now settled a cumulative ~$3M in volume across 38 proposals.
74% of proposals are passed, with an average of 14 traders generating 87 trades per proposal.

4/ MetaDAO has since built a launchpad, offering a ICO platform for projects to raise capital natively as a futarchic DAO.
The proposal to build this launchpad was itself approved through futarchy. 

5/ The first project to use this launchpad is @mtndao, raising capital for a Solana ecosystem fund with investment decisions to be governed by futarchy.
Opened today, mtnCapital has successfully raised nearly ~$250K in the 3 hours since the raise went live.

6/ With more large-scale projects employing futarchy for governance, coupled with a novel capital formation platform for futarchy-native projects, the efficacy of this governance mechanism will grow in pertinence and be put to the test.