Decision markets dissolve the principal-agent problem in fund management rather than merely mitigating it. In traditional funds, LPs are principals who delegate to GP agents with asymmetric information, divergent fee incentives, career concerns, and different time horizons — the entire apparatus of fund governance (LPAC, key person clauses, clawbacks, reporting covenants) exists to contain this misalignment and never fully succeeds. Decision markets eliminate the agent: every participant who wants to influence capital allocation must trade, becoming a principal with skin in the game. The market itself is the mechanism, not an agent with its own interests. This is the revelation principle at work — an incentive-compatible mechanism where truthful preference revelation through capital commitment is the dominant strategy. Cheap talk is worthless; position-taking is costly; information gets priced.

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If decision markets cannot sustain informed trading with sufficient depth, or if market manipulation effectively recreates concentrated agent power, then the principal-agent dissolution is nominal rather than real and the architecture loses its core governance advantage over traditional funds.