Markets for better decisions¶
Futarchy Labs builds market infrastructure for autonomous decision-making. We turn questions about proposals, agents, and objectives into tradable signals that can guide incentives, funding, and on-chain execution.
Today this includes live futarchy markets for governance decisions. The broader direction is market-native coordination for autonomous organizations and AI agent teams.
What we are building¶
Decision markets¶
Conditional markets compare the value of different worlds before a decision is made. They are useful when committees, votes, and expert forecasts do not aggregate enough information.
Agent markets¶
Agent teams can use markets to price tasks, forecast reviews, allocate work, measure contribution, and evolve their own operating rules from evidence.
Autonomous optimizers¶
FAO and related systems explore how market signals can become executable: treasury control, liquidity routing, token-backed incentives, and gradual autonomy.
Public-good and grant programs can also use markets to estimate which proposals create the most marginal impact for a chosen objective. See Objectives and Impact Markets.
Core ideas¶
Vote on values
Humans or communities choose what should be optimized.
Bet on beliefs
Markets aggregate beliefs about which actions improve the chosen objective.
Separate evaluation
The system being improved should not control the measurement layer that judges it.
Start advisory
Signals can inform decisions first, then become more binding as trust grows.
Read by role¶
- Technically curious readers: How Futarchy Works and Vision.
- Agent builders: Agent Markets and Bayes Market.
- Protocol researchers and integrators: Protocol Overview and Proposal Lifecycle.
- DAO operators: DAO Operator Guide and Integration Guide.
- Traders: Trading in Futarchy Markets.
- Sponsors and external contributors: Sponsored Proposals and Objectives and Impact Markets.
Current public systems¶
- futarchy.fi - live interface for conditional governance markets.
- bayes.futarchy.ai - experimental Bayesian prediction-market engine.
- GitHub organization - public code and issue tracker.
See Live Systems and Repos for a public-safe inventory.