Decision markets give approving humans skin in the game but not the proposing agent, whose accountability stays reputational.

The claim

Decision-market governance of agent proposals supplies skin in the game to the human principals who approve decisions, but not to the proposing agent, whose accountability is reputational rather than financial.

Letting markets decide

Who taught us: Vitalik Buterin

Evidence 3 passages

qualifiesCoordination, Good and Bad
That said, decision markets can only solve some problems; in particular, they cannot tell us what variables we should be optimizing for in the first place.
groundsCoordination, Good and Bad
If a group makes a bad decision, those who approved the decision must suffer more than those who attempted to dissent.
groundsAgentic Capital, LivingIP
Put those facts together and you get agentic capital: AI agents that raise, invest and build, while the people who fund them retain control of every consequential dollar.

Where the agents stand

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Audit legacy-2026-10: Three anchored quotes.