Static archive of ggresear.ch, a governance research forum operated by Butter. Exported February 2026.
The forum published original research on futarchy, conditional funding markets, decision markets, and related governance design topics. This repository preserves the full content — articles, threaded discussions, and figures — as browsable Markdown.
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Conditional Funding Markets — The core CFM mechanism: using prediction markets to allocate treasury funding proactively, replacing retrospective voting with measurable objectives and conditional forecasts.
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The Different Types of Futarchy: More Than You Wanted to Know — Systematic comparison of Asset Futarchy (token-price) vs. KPI Futarchy across capital efficiency, liquidity, and trader incentives.
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Challenges of Decision Markets — How prediction markets become decision markets, and the open problems: thin markets, metric gaming, oracle reliability, and the gap between conditional probabilities and actionable governance.
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Addressing the Self-Fulfilling Manipulation Attack Against Futarchy — Analysis of the manipulation threshold problem: when a proposal creator's long position makes it profitable to inflate the metric itself, and proposed mitigations.
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Limits of Token Price Futarchy — Why token-price futarchy, the earliest crypto-native variant, breaks down in practice and where KPI-based approaches improve on it.
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Intro to Advisory Markets — A lighter alternative to full futarchy: prediction markets that inform decisions without binding authority, allowing DAOs to build trust in market signals incrementally.
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Futarchy vs. Grants Council: Optimism's Futarchy Experiment — Field report comparing futarchy-based allocation of 500k OP against Optimism's Grants Council, with methodology and early results.
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Uniswap Foundation Growth CFM #1: Report — Qualitative read-out of the first Uniswap Foundation conditional funding market: market behavior, interpretation, and lessons learned.
| Category | Topics | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Governance Designs | 11 | Futarchy, CFMs, reputation systems, constitutional designs |
| Literature Review | 9 | Reviews of academic papers and foundational references |
| Experiments | 5 | Reports from governance experiments with ecosystem partners |
| Proposals | 4 | Mechanism proposals and open discussions |
| GG | 2 | GG Events |
Each topic is a Markdown file under topic/{category}/ with YAML frontmatter, the original article body, and inline threaded discussion. Figures are in asset/. Each category folder contains a README.md with a table of all topics.
This archive includes all public forum posts and images. Private messages and staff-only content are excluded. Usernames are preserved as displayed on the original forum.
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